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` ~ ' Minutes of Public Hearing 11/15/88 -4- Remmel: I suggest strongly that you get a copy of Cleveland Magazine and read the story on Lakewood and what small lots are created and how property is so degraded by the changeover of people in there,-who could-only afford smaller places. If you take and put a six foot fence around all those, you have started something. McRay: Well, Mr. Remmel, I have some legislation here from Shaker Heights, from Mayfield Heights, and they permit six foot fences and I believe that, and I am sure that Shaker Heights is a community that is reputable and if they feel that a six foot fence is not objectionable to their property values and their esthetics, I think they have done well too. Remmel: Shaker Heights has much larger lots, on the average, than we do. MCKay: We have some very nice lots; there are very few - I don't think that there are that many small lots in North Olmsted. Saringer: Okay, is there any other councilman who would like to add some new information to this. If not, we will go on to -- _ O'Grady: Will this matter be referred to this meeting as Mr. Remmel suggested for tomorrow night? Saringer: Yes, it will go to the BZO Committee, whenever Mr. Tallon -- Tallon: No, it goes b BZD. O'Grady: What's wrong with getting that input -- Tallon: Well, it's not on the agenda, Tom. It's- not in the codes. I mean it would be out of line putting that in there first. Ron Bugala, 26678 Leenders Lane. I am speaking as a resident of North Olmsted and also as a-member of the Board of Zoning Appeals., I've been very lucky - in our neighborhood, we havn't had fences and my children have been able to play football and baseball - run from one side of the street. to the other side of the street and I have been extremely thankful for-that as a resident. I certainly do not want to encourage fences around the area. Personally, I find them, by law, if they are allowed .to go up, fine, I have no objection to it but my own personal taste is that I prefer that they not be there. In the number of years that I have been on the Board of Zoning Appeals, and also on the Planning Commission. prior to that, I've seen the fences go from four to-five and now we are going up to six and where does it end. And I.don't think we should be regu- lated by the, building firms around here that say they only offer .six foot fence. I really don't see any difference between a five foot fence and a six foot fence to be truthful. I don't know, it just doesn't Hake any -the majority of the difference to me. Thank you. McRay: Mr. Bugala, the request was from the residents not Forest City so Forest City had nothing to do with that. Saringer: Okay, so then I assume, Mr. Tallon, you will be - at your .next BZD Meeting - you will invite members of the Zoning Board. and take the Planning Commission 's recommendation into it more deeply? Okay, if there are no other comments on this piece of legislation, we will go into the next public hearing on 118. This is an ordinance providing for the amendment of the Zone Map of the City of North Olmsted, which Zone Map is part of the Zoning Code of the City of North Olmsted by changing the premises hereinafter described from Single