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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, December 3, 2018 Page 3 Council would like me to, or we can hear from the applicant and hear from the audience and respond accordingly. Coiulcil President Saponaro stated, I thinlc that would be appropriate. One point of order is that this evening the Planning Commission did vote to send this to Council for review. I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that. It was a 6-0 vote in favor of sending it to Council for consideration. That being said, I am going to now ask the representatives of Skoda to come up to the podium, state your name and address for the record and then provide us with your presentation. o PRESENTATION BI' REPRESENTATIVES OF SKODA Cluis Skoda 6317 Kenarden Drive Highland Heights, Ohio 44143 For those of you who don't know me, I have lived in Highland Heights just across the freeway for 30 years. My kids went to school in Mayfield Village. I care about what happens in this community. , Council President Saponaro asked, can you introduce who is with you this evening? Mr. Skoda replied, Mike Skoda. Mr. Skoda continued, so, I do care about what goes here. I care about the Village and the people who live here. We are seeking rezoning of approximately 16 acres. It's a split-zoned with residential. There's a portion of the property that backs into Mayfran on Beta. We would rezone all of that for the planned unit development. In that zoning, that would allow us to build 60 units, 18 of which are going to be single-family detached houses with an emphasis on Highland Road. It would mirror what's on Highland Road currently. The others will be spread intermittently throughout the subdivision. These units will have first floor master bedrooms. We are kind of emphasizing first floor living. Again, there will be a series of those that will be two- family units, no more than that. We won't do any three's or four units in there. There will be a homeowner's association that will govern the property. The responsibility of that association will also be for landscaping and snowplowing driveways. There is a pool, tennis courts and clubhouse included in this development that all residents will be able to use. That will also be controlled by the homeowner's association. We are also talking to adjacent property owners to make a coruiection with this development to the Greenway Trail to allow people in this development to access the Village center or go to the pool, the library and the park systems. We feel this is going to be a veiy nice feature. As the. La«, Director mentioned; A,e are working NNjith the Village on an abreement thai NNTe NN?ill abide by that gives protection to residents in the Village. We think it's going to be a special