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I J ? F ? agreement constitutes an appendage to the use of the property. The applicant has not seen any specific court action, however, said this is not an impossible thing to accomplish. Mr. O'Malley said if someone were to open up the property records, they could see the history and would be a notation referencing the court case and the decision. David Jung, 25566 Lorain Road is concerned about the drainage issue and wanted to make the Commission aware that the drainage creek does a poor job of dealing with the water line as it currently is. Is this proposed retaining system adequate to sufficiently divert the new water volume to a system that already inadequately handles it. Chairman Koeth said new developments work with the engineering department to make sure they meet requirements of detaining the water on their property. Mr. Jung inquired how this affects surrounding properties. Mr. Durbin said surrounding properties are taken care of as well. The proposal is to reroute the stream and clean it out and make it more efficient to get the water off the property. Ms. Hoff-Smith said this was discussed extensively two years ago. Another issue raised was that surrounding property owners were never approached by Ganley representatives to discuss the specifics. Chairman Koeth informed Mr. Jung that part of the development process, abutting property owners are notified. Mr. Jung asked if he could obtain a copy of the proposed plan. Chairman Koeth asked Mr. Jung to gather all the neighbor's names and have a meeting to review the plans with the residents. He further advised the neighbors to take advantage of this opportunity. Ms. Hoff-Smith said that if future issues arise long term, this would be a good will building exercise for solving them. Tim Feller recalls the applicant refusing to put up mounding and does not remember an agreement being made about any distance from property lines. Ms. Wenger said BZD Committee had made changes to the plan before being recommended to Council. City Council voted yes on the development plan, however, rezoning was denied. Ms. Hoff-Smith attended the BZD meeting and indicated the drawing was approved. Ms. Wenger said the determination was made at the meeting. Ms. Wenger told him notices were sent out. Ganley had a lawsuit and the City settled. The resident said they were not informed with what was going on and said they are taking a back seat again. He wants to know what the mounding and landscaping will be. The Commission informed him the plans are in the engineering department. ? R. Koeth move to approve the Ganley lot split and consolidation, 25600 Lorain Road as previously read with the addition of adding some notion of the court settlement to the print to reference the settlement agreement, court case entry and docket entry. J. Lasko seconded, which was unanimously approved. COMMITTEE REPORT: Ms. Wenger said BZD recommended approval of the plan as is and second reading will be June 7th, third reading June 21St. Chairman Koeth suggested that members try to attend the June 21St meeting at 8:00 p.m. Ms. Wenger mentioned that the City will be undertaking is a recreation plan. This issue was raised in discussion between the city and schools about cooperative efforts for recreational