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. . e;'? • y . CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES - SEPTIIHBER 10, 1991 Prior to the meeting, Ma.yor Boyle addressed the audience pertaining to the View Point proposal which is on this evening's agenda. I. ROLL CALL: Chairman Gorris called the meeting to order at 8:10 p.m. Present: R. Bowen, M. Hughes, L. Orlowski, A. Skoulis, J. Thomas, and B. Gorris. Absent: T. Morgan Also Present: Assistant Law Director Dubelko, Assistant City Engineer Griffith, Building Commissioner Conway and Clerk of Corrnnissions Oring. II. REVIEW AND CORRECTION OF MINUTES: R. Bowen moved to approve the minutes of July 23, 1991, seconded by A. Skoulis. Roll call on motion: Bowen, Skoulis, Hughes, Gorris, Hughes, and Thomas, yes. Mr. Orlowski abstained. Motion carried. Chairman Gorris advised that the Modern Sales proposal has been withdrawn from this evening's agenda. III. BUILDING DEPARTMIINT REQUESTS: 1) View Point (formerly North Olmsted Golf Course), located west off Canterbury Road and south of Butternut Ridge Road and I-480. Proposal to construct cluster homes. IV. NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND SUBDIVISIONS: 1) View Point (North Olmsted Golf Course) Rezoning Request. The proposal is to rezone North Olmsted Golf Course, located west off Canterbury Road and south of Butternut Ridge Road and I-480, from an existing zone of "A" Residence, Single, entirely, to a proposed zone of Single Family Cluster, entirely. Both items were heard together. Mre F. Bower, owner of Shore West Construction Company, explained the plans to develop a golf course/cluster home residential conumuiity, the first such comirninity in the western suburbs. He and his brother, Neil Bower,(owners of Shore West Construction Company) bought the golf course with the idea of preserving and operating it as a public course. The concept of cluster homes will allow them to retain enough land to reconfigure the course and still construct a residential comrrn,n;ty. He introduced the members of the development team: M. Kepha.rt, architect; D. Levitan, marketing consultant; W. Amick, golf course architect; C. Cawrse, landscape architect; R. Benden, civil engineer, Ms. L. Roselle, interior designer. Mr. Bower stated, for the record, that if the Commission grants the application for rezoning and approved the proposal, they will restrict, in any way the Law Director and their attorneys see fit, the future use of the golf course property to just that, golf course land. They intend to keep ownership of the golf course and to manage it as a public course. Mr. Levitan explained that they were asked to look at the land with the specific requirement that the golf course must be maintained. In their 1