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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, February 19, 2018 Page 2 Dino DiFranco 553 Zorn Lane I would like to thank all of Council for the opporiunity to address you guys. I have looked through the past meeting minutes and found no mention of the situation that my wife and i find ourselves in so I wanted to come here tonight and make sure everyone's informed. About 30 years ago, I spent about a year searching for the perfect house to buy. I wanted a house that had a nice country feel, one where I could leave my windows open at night and have some privacy. My home wasn't even for sale, but after some time I convinced the previous owner to sell me her home on Zorn Lane. It's been the perfect neighborhood for us. No street lights. Plenty of privacy. But this idyllic reality was ruined for us about a month ago when I returned home from work and found that the Village has installed a highway grade streetlight on my property. Since then I have spoken quite a few times with the Service Director and the Mayor's Assistant. Both asked me not to bother the Mayor. But still the light remains and therefore last Friday I felt compelled to speak to the Mayor about it. My wife and I were not told in advance that the light was to be installed. I have since learned that the light was authorized by the Mayor at the request of a neighbor. No safety study was done. The neighbor asked for it and they got it. The claim is that the light is justified because my neighbor has made some police reports of gangs roaming the area and drag races down my street. Each time the police responded; they found no one in the area. When they responded to the drag race, there were no tire marks on the street, no rubber smell in the air, no one has been arrested, no crimes were committed. I know exactly when the incidents reportedly occurred, but no one has ever asked me what I saw, what I heard or what was or was not captured on my video cameras. If they had, I would have told them that Zorn Lane is the same safe area as it has been for the past 30 years. I saw and heard no evidence of tlie reported incidents. My street is narrow and there are three houses on it. It's hard to imagine anyone would drag race there. MS-13 is not recruiting on Zorn Lane. My development has about 150 houses in it. My house was singled out to receive a street light. Since that day, all of my bedrooms are illuminated 24/7 and my property value has been diminished. There's a reason high value cities like Gates Mills and Concord do not have street lights. When I go to sell my house, I am sure a buyer will ask me, why does my house have a street light and none of the other 150 do not? I am obligated to inform them that the city put a light there because they deemed my property unsafe in a high crime area. I discussed this with the Mayor who advised me that she also has a street light at her house and that she solved the light problem with heavy curtains. She also said I would get used to it. There's a very large difference here that I believe is not being understood. The Mayor purchased her home in a development with street lights. Her light was not installed after purchase with unjust grounds. She had input and I did not. I purchased my home in a development without street lights and somehow for the past 57 years, my house and the other homes in the development survived without street lights. Now, because of a completely fraud and unjust process, my property value has been diminished and heavy curtains don't fix that.