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:it. Since this property backs up to a State route, there would be other problems with it being residential. He acknowledge that this land was zoned partially single family residential and multi-family residential. Mr. Brennan stated that since this was zoned residential when the adjacent residents purchased their homes, and was rezoned to office with the residents approval, and suggested that if they cannot honor the agreement to develop it to office, it should revert back to residentiaL W. Corsi believed that the benefit to the city would be greater if this land were used for general retail, than if it were to revert to residential since residential adds additional burden on the school systems and on city services; and he concluded this would not be the correct use for this property. He inaintained that zoning changes as a community grows. Mr. Herbster pointed out that when they assembled a portion of Mrs..Molner's property to theirs, they agreed to leave it residential and now they are building on it. Mr. Corsi stated that he would check his records, but he believed that it was agreed the majority of the land would fall within buffer zone. The members studied the minutes of that meeting and clarified the issue. The audience was invited to speak. Mr. Skoulis advised that he was president of the Park West Home Owners Association which consists of 145 homes and about 350 residents and would be the primary speaker. He noted that the developers presentation took about 2 hours, and he been concerned that his 20 minute presentation would be too long. He believed that he was speaking, not only for their own residents, but for residents on Golumbia Road, who abut this property, as well as residents in the Colebrook, Jefferson Place, Clairshire Place and Jamestown Condominiums who are also concerned about rezoning property to retail. He maintained that rezoning this land would have a drastic impact on the entire city. He believed that they still live in a residential area, in spite of the retail encroachment. He re-capped the history of this property. This is the fourth attempt to rezone the land by Biskind Development. T7iere was request by the original developer of their property who attempted to rezone the land behind the restaurant and Goodyear Tire Company which faced Great Northern on the basis that land was too valuable to develop for homes. He wanted to put up an office medical building, but that was turned down by the city. However, a few years later, he did build more homes on Linda and Westview. Biskind bought the property and attempted to rezone rt in 1986 to Mixed Use so they could put up a retail shopping strip. This too was turned down by planving commission, and James Buius, who at that time was the chairmau of plauniug commission and is now the present Finance Director, went on record to say that North Olmsted akeady had too much land zoned for retail. The second attempt, in 1988, was again to rezone to Mixed Use, for a senior housing complex. However, the developer would only sell the back half of the parcel which abutted the residences for the senior complex, and wanted to keep the front half for a_Mixed Use development. This fell through when the developer of the senior complex went bankrupt. Later, he met with a representative of Biskind Development regarding the future development of parcel "E". Sinoe they could not build retail on the land and could not afford to put homes on it, she asked his group to come up with a proposal that would be agreeable to both sides. They met for seven months at which time they made all the arguments that were made at this meeting but Biskind's experts were arguing the opposite. The developer created a 100 foot landscape buffer behind two homes so the residents could see what they would be getting if offices were built on that property. Mr. Skoulis advised that he was told by several members of planning commission and council that this land was too valuable to put homes on, arid it would eventually be rezoned to a better and higher use. So with those pressures, they continued to meet with Biskind Development who had suggested that this land be rezoned for office, and came up with the various commitments for a rezoning. At a meeting with Biskind and the homeowners, it was agreed that they would go along with office development, provided the developer would conaply with those agreements. In Ordinance 88-75, the Office Building District was defined and he believed was one of the best office disti'ict zonings around. It required that 4 feet of setback was required for every 1 foot of height up to a maximum of 175 feet. Most of these commitments have been discussed by tlus developer this evening. These agreements were discussed at a public hearing (November 15, 1988) and the rezoning was 8