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BOA Minutes <br />July 6, 2017 <br />Pg #20 <br />Chairman Prcela asked, are you suggesting we should table this undl such time as we get the ; <br />ordinance approved? ; <br />Mr. Diemert said, the ordinance as it exists, does not allow that. Council will consider it but <br />tPiey haven't adopted it. This Board has to deal with what exists today. <br />Mr. Berns understands. I'm going to talk about people with disabilities. I don't want to get into <br />this but I'm going to. Under the Fair Housing Act people with disabilities got to be treated a <br />little bit better perhaps than other people do. <br />Chairman Prcela said, there are no people vi?ith disabilities on this lot, it's all for Office/Lab. <br />Mr. Bems understands. This is never going to be Office/Laboratory unless heavens to Betsy <br />maybe somebody will arise out of the heavens. The fine city of Beachwood decided 40 years <br />ago they were going to have a Science Park. If you drive down Beachwood you'11 see a big <br />sign saying Science Park. They were deterniined to get office research. They wanted science. <br />Guess what, there isn't a single user, not one office lab with research anyplace there. There are <br />banks and Cleveland Clinic which is Beachwood's Progressive. It would be an act of God if it <br />happened. As far as office buildings, it's probably the last place in the world somebody would <br />want to build an office building. You can't afford to build one and get rent for it. That's not <br />going to happen. Here, you're left with a use that can be done. It's compatible with Gvvemor's <br />Village, it's compatible with r.esidential which surrounds it. It serves the purpose, that's the ' <br />reason to vote for this. The Village says we have a problem with our EMS service, we can't <br />afford this. But they can afford it simply by changing their ordinance so the insurance "- <br />companies pay it. They can alleviate the problem and meet the requirements of Federal Law as <br />well as State Law. By the time this gets resolved, it's got to go to Council, referred to the <br />Planning Commission and then goes back to Council. The earliest this could ever be approved <br />would be September. Is it possible Mr. Diemert that Council might act between now and <br />September on a change of ordinance? <br />Mr. Diemert replied, anything is possible but it's not on their radar at this point. <br />Mr. Bems asked, can we put it on their radar? <br />Mr. Jones said, to be very short- <br />Mr. Diemert said, we have two other Administrators left to spealc, then you could comment. <br />Mr. Jones said, this goes directly to the Fire Chiefls comments, it's not that I disagree with him, <br />I'm simply saying based on a three year study and based on his calculations, I'll just pass this <br />out it's the `2015 State of Ohio EMS Incident Reporting System Annual Report' (attached), <br />we estimate 62 annual runs. I'd like to comment that under Chief s leadership he's dramatically <br />transformed the Fire Department into a very valuable asset to the community. We'd feel very I, <br />comfortable being in the Village with the Fire Department under his leadership. To the hand ! <br />1 ? <br />t.._!