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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, December 3, 2018 Page 5 property. In addition to that, at that time or after that time, Council could decide whether to execute the Development Agreement. Tlie Development Agreement provides some other conditions on the property that are imposed on the developer. At some point in time the process continues, so it wouldn't be on the ballot until next Spring. Does that answer your question? Ms. Shelby replied, I think it did. I will have to process it. Council President Saponaro stated, so to answer your question, just to be clear, we are not voting at the next meeting. We are not voting to say, yes, go ahead and build. We are voting to say put it on the ballot in May. That's what we are voting to do. And then we all as residents get to vote whether we want this or not. Ms. Shelby replied, I am happy to hear that. My thoughts are that I had an impression that many people responding to the survey did not want further development in Mayfield Village. That's my unpression. I think tliat we need many open areas, open space planned. I ain concemed about displacing animals living on that properly. I am concerned about covering more land with cement, blacktop and buildings. That's it. Council President Saponaro stated, thank you very much. We appreciate your comments. Martha Doran 730 Oakwood Drive My husband and I moved here 16 years ago because we love the Village. We came from Cleveland Heights which is a different type of community which we loved. It was with mixed emotions that we left the city but we moved to be closer to work at the time. I read a couple different accounts of this development, really only in the last couple months. One source, I think it was in Sunday's paper, mentioned a 16-acre rezoning for 42 living units. Today it mentioned 60. My main concern is, or I am just wondering, and I don't know Village procedures as much but kind of to her point, I was wondering if an environmental study was done for the impact on our environment and wildlife. I say that because the Village for so many years, it has been so important to have greenspace. That was part of the charm of the Village where we used the Metroparks quite a bit. We love it. We are so grateful to be in an area that is environmentally friendly. I have not seen any plan before now, but I wondered about the hard surface. At our house, which is only 2,000 square feet, we are assessed the maximum from the Sewer District for hard surface. We are on 6/1 Oths of an acre. What is the impact? What's going to happen, not in 5 years or 10 years, but as we look for our community to grow in the way that we want it to, are tlzere any requirements for landscaping, for instance, for the development to include either a certaui amount of value of tlie home to be spent on landscaping? In Cleveland Heights there used to be, 10% of the value of the home had to be spent on landscaping. As I look at that, I don't mean to be critical, but I don't really see much in the way of greenspace or landscaping. From this unknowing mind, but just thinlcing about what do we want for our Village, for our future; for our children, for brandchildren, when Nve say efficieni use of land that ]ooks eff cient