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Council Minutes of 11/7/90 Mr. O'Grady, Chairman of Public Safety, Health and Welfare Committee reported: 1) Moved Council have no objection to the issuance of an F-2 liquor permit to Art Studios Inc. at 2500 Great Northern Blvd., North Olmsted, for an event to be held on Saturday, November 17, 1990 from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m.; second by Mr. Nashar; passed unanimously. Audience Partici tion: Eileen Schuler, ~~-~lareshire X62-H, presented Council with petitions containing 1,060 names of registered voters who are against the passage of Ordinance No. 90-107. The residents are thoroughly against the rezoning and feel a stand must be taken. Julie Montilla, 24625 Clareshire 4103, President of the 72-unit Clareshire Court Condominiums, told Council of the comments she heard while soliciting signatures for the petitions against 90-107. Residents are angered and disgusted with the development of the City. She suggested that the proposed income tax was defeated because citizens want the City Government to be accountable. Residents are tired of rampant commercialism; what should be a beautiful suburb is a concrete catastrophe ar~d a traffic nightmare. Michael Hoyt, 4775 Silverdale, was concerned about Ordinance 90-124, which is another rezoning issue. He wondered why this was being reconsidered when it had been previously defeated. He feels that it is unfortunate that lots that could be kept residential are being rezoned commercial. Angelo Skoulis, 24732 Mitchell Drive, expressed concern about the problems the City is experiencing as a result of the commercial growth. He feels it will be a ni.gk~tmare if all the land that is zoned for commercial use is fully developed. Residents have been fighting this battle for two years and have used every sound argument and reason to convince Council that this rezoning is wrong. This proposal had previously been turned down by the Planning Commission an three different occasions; however, this past July, when marry of the residents were on vacation, Planning Commission approved this proposal. Mr. Skoulis reminded Council that the Mined Use Zoning allows buildings up to 20 stories to be built; these buildings would be built within 60 feet of residential property. The residents feel that the City has been very generous to this developer--only a year ago he was granted a zoning change on 24 acres of beautifully wooded, residential land. He said he was going to build office buildings that were desperately needed; a year has gone by and no construction has begun. Also, this developer owns land, property, and buildings in excess of $50,000,000, which means he has land that he probably won't get around to developing for 15 or 20 years. It seems that he has mare than he needs. Mr. Skoulis mentioned that every person he approached to sign the petition was against this rezoning; riot one person refused to sign. Indeed, the number of ;; signatures obtained was a mall fraction of the total potential that could have been obtained had there been enough time. Also, he said the comments of the residents were very revealing; it was as though they were 3 ~~~~.~~