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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, June 4, 2018 Page 16 _ no uniformity. There's no adherence to quality or anything like that. So, that's going to be up .to the developer to negotiate some of those provisions with the Planning Commission and Council at that time. I hope I answered your question. Mr. McDowell stated, I guess the only other comment I would have is the difference between SOM Court and Highland Road is SOM is a four lane :divided highway and Highland Road is just a two-lane highway. I think that these cluster home developments are better apt and more fitted_ and aesthetically pleasing to the eye in areas that are not in the middle of a single family residential street that is just going to stick out like an eyesore. Thank you. Council President Saponaro stated, we appreciate it. You certainly are more than welcome to contact your Couricil person if you have more questions or certainly reach out to administration. This is a public hearing; but you can get more information should you choose to. Dr. Parker stated. I have one more comment. And it has to deal with what Council does because obviously we do take these things very seriously. They are not passed lightly. Quite a number of years ago, the Law Director referred to, fhere was a time when we. saw these things coming and we looked at our planned residential development process ' very closely because we saw that there were pockets in the Village.of land that could potentially be challenged legally in terms of rezoning and in terms of the type of development that could go into those areas and we tried to be forward th'inking in terms of do we want to try to keep the Village residential and does that inean that we have to be a little bit more amenable to various types of lifestyle developments or whatever so we have been dealing with this for actually many years even though it might llave been more conceptual back then realizing we had these properties but now we are starting to see some of that foresight being called into question in terins of like, okay now we have this area and that and we are trying to deal with it. We do take it seriously. . We also want to make sure that there's a process. We also have to be cognizant of that. We just caii't necessarily deny someone the right to try to do soinething like that without fully going through this wllole process. There's a lot of hats we have to fill and a lot of areas we. have to cover. Of course, we are here for the residents, but on many levels. I just wanted to throviw that out there in terms of what Council does and how we think about these. things. Thank you. Couilcil President Saponaro stated, thank you Dr. Parker. Any other comments? There were none. ADJOURNMENT Mrs. \4ills, seconded by Mr. Marquardt, made a motion to adjourn