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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday; June 18, 2018 Page 8 . Planning and Zoning. I am sure you guys received my letter: I hope so. If you allow me to read that in so that I can liave it in the Minutes toiught. It's kind of lengthy. Council President Saponaro stated, we can certainly attach it. You. don't need to read it in. You did provide_it to us so we do acknowledge it. Mr. McDowell stated, so I think a lot of my points were there: If you look at the intent. section, I think you guys raiseci poirits that we should look at for should this go in to the Village and the major points were income taaies, your- property- taxes. I think the Village has enough money. We. are fiscally sound. I don't know if that should be as weighted as high as it was: But also the intent section of the planned residential community. - There were a couple of things I mentioned in my letter. tliat the process is kuid of haphazard. Idon't,think there's a well-defined process for this. Council President Saponaro stated, but that's not something that we as Council - Mr.1VIcDowell stated, but you do have a.process though. You have been talkuig about how you look at the process. Correct? Council President Saponaro replied, what we do is--this is part of the problem, this is part of the issue here. We had a Charter Review Commiss'ion that decided that they were going to amend this section. When they ainended it, they didn't say, hey; you know what? Anybody that wants to change zoning, you don't go before Council, you get your petitions and you go to the electorate. And everyorie in the Village voted for, this process. They said, you go to Council and the Mayor or you go to the electorate. One or the other. So it makes it harder for us because the way we've always in the past looked at this and it's never been an issue is that, hey, all we are doing is,. there is really no reason that anybody is raising in teims of essential services. That's really what we've looked at. Oh, you know, there's. a: risk here because. That's one tlung. Obviously, there's going to be times where wlien you go through the process that certainly. all the resideizts come in and they talk to the P&Z and the different Comtnissions and the Boards and give their input on it. But that does not automatically say it is going to go througli by us putting it on the ballot. It's a slippery slope either way for us. But I read your entire memo. I think that a lot of what we are. talking about is premature in sonie ' ways. However, it's not for you guys because you feel strongly about it. We hear you. Thaf's what tlus open portion is a11 about. I appreciate where you are coming from.. We are not making the decision to put it on the ballot or not with all of this,. looking at everything, we tlunk it's going to fit in the character aild nature and all of that kind of stuff. All we are doing is saying it goes on the ballot or not and that's really what is the hard part here. That's all I am trying to say: I think for the rest of you, for the iest of the situation, whether. it's this or anytlung else, that's why we have processes in place. So if it doesri't meet requirements, it doesn't go duougll. There's a lot of places where it could be stopped in that process. Over the years; we have all been here, everything doesn't just get rubber-stamped and get pushed tluough. There are a lot of tlungs that never make it because . you kilow what, they just don't comply and they don't ineet the requirements. I just wanted to give tliat clarification for you. Mr. McDowell stated; sure. I think when you tall< about essential services; I think that maintaininb the safety of the sun•ounding houses would be a part of that, would you agree? Flood control?