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, r MINUTES OF PUBLIC AEARING OCTOBER 19, 1970 8•15 P.M. Present: President Francis J. 0'Neill, Councilmen Boehmer, Hodgins, Limpert, Prokasy, Speedling, West. Also present: Mayor Ralph E. Christman, Service Director Henry Caster, Law Director J. Bruce Kitchen, Acting City Engineer Michael Karhan, Asst. City Engineer David Ransbury, Clerk of Council Nora Hill. President 0'Neill opened meeting with roll call. President 0'Neill stated this is a Public Hearing on Ord. 70-128 and read title and ordinance in its entirety. Mr. West requested the Engineer to explain exact location on map. Same was done by Mr. Karhan. President 0'Neill stated he wauld entertain comments from those in favor of Ordinance. Mrs. Lagovelli, Cleveland, said she owns six lots on Parkstone Ave. and is there any possibility that she can build? Mr. Gundy, Building Commi.ssioner, said Parkstone is still an undeveloped street and in the past there has been a good deal of restraint on construction. Suggested petitioning to Council to make it a buildable area. Mr. Frank Moss and Mr. Bernard Packer, 1005 Leader Bldg., Attorneys for the Embassy Development Company, spoke in favor of Ordinance and gave the following presentation: The total project consists of 550 suites. Originally made our application to Planning Commission for mixed use zone. We applied for mixed use far two reasoas: 1) that it would permit the type of apartment deveZopment that we wish to build 2) under the City Zoning Code under mixed use, the Planning Comm.i.ssion and Council controls the project from beginning to end and for that reason we cannot deviate from our plan without going back to Planning Commission and Council once the zoning is passed. We presented our preliminary plan to Planning Comni.ssian which was approved by Planning Commission and zoning recommended for the suites involved. The buildings are seven stories and the total suites are 550; a total of 326 one- bedroom and a total of 224 two-bedroom suites; parking complies with all of the parking requirements in mixed use zoning; also complies with density requirements; the suites in the area - the percentage of suites per square acre comply with the den.sity requirements for the m3.xed use zoning. Total construction cost approximately $8,000,000; total tax value will be approximately $2,750,000; total dollars available for real estate tax approximately $182,000 from this project. So far as entrance - will be from Lorain Road - no part of We11es1ey will be used for the project either during construction or for the use of the project. We do have access of our real estate to Wellesley - part of our land fronts on Wellesley which is being rezoned. The land is being retained strictly for emergency purposes. We do not intend - nave no plan to access of roadway to Wellesley. Plan that was approved does not have roadway access to Wellesley. The total projeet r«ras alligned for possible future extension of Stearns Rd. if and when Stearns Rd. goes through,