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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council <br />Monday, December 3, 2018 <br />Page 8 <br />bills folks, you are going to fall on the floor when you find out how much your sewers cost. So, <br />perhaps Mr. Skoda will answer my question? <br />Mr. Skoda replied, absolutely. As far as the installation of the sewers, it is our responsibility <br />when we build a development. We woii't pass it on to homeowners. The cost of these units, we <br />are figuring right now, they are going to be close to $400,000. Most of that will be driven by <br />market conditions at the time we build, lumber, windows, roofing materials. We can't control <br />those costs. We will try to do whatever we can to keep the cost down to something reasonable. <br />As far as cosmetics, we talked about that. <br />Mrs. Smakula asked, and you will not be leasing these or renting them? They are for sale? <br />Mr. Skoda replied, that's correct. In the by-laws we create, which the Village will have to <br />approve, we will make it mandatory that nobody can rent these units or lease these units. <br />Mrs. Smakula stated, thank you. And thank you all for this meeting because I know there are <br />others that have questions. I appreciate your patience. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, who is next? <br />Bob Alberrv <br />6691 Thornapple Drive <br />I came here around 35 years ago. I think that Mayfield Village is a very unique and a very <br />special place. I think most of these folks feel the same way. Mayfield to me has a couple of <br />different pieces to it. One is regular old-time American sma11-town like Wilson Mills Road for <br />example, the houses, the businesses and those kinds of things we see all around in the small <br />towns. The industrial things are kind of the same way. But the biggest part of Mayfield is the <br />green land of great houses on greatly landscaped properties like the ones off the end of Highland <br />Road, anywhere around the old part of Mayfield. Those properties in the Thornapple area along <br />Wilson Mills Road and that pretty much covers the Village. But that's where the bulk of the <br />people in Mayfield live. They like their houses inside and out. A lot of people don't care about <br />the outside of their house or anything that's around it. It doesn't make any difference. They go <br />downtown to work, they come home and the inside of the house is the beautiest place that they <br />paid for and that they live in and they don't see anything else. But I think those of us who live in <br />those other neighborhoods see the whole neighborhood and enjoy that part of it. <br />Now, I will jump to, there's been several new things that came in to this Village. One of them <br />was a community built on SOM Center Road and it's just north of the old Fisher Tavern on that <br />same side of the street. The plan that was presented in this place and in publications put out and <br />handouts showed keeping all of the green possible, cutting downi only the trees necessary to put <br />in the houses, putting in nice curbed streets, nice big lots per house. So the amount of ground <br />space per foot for the house was quite a large size. I suppose that one morning a whole bunch of <br />contractors came in and we changed laws. Theil they graded it. Then they put in all houses that <br />looked like modelinb clay pushed into a bunch of different cube shapes. The people who live <br />inside love it. I am not sui•e from the outside it is beautiest to me anyhow but that's a pei•sonal