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Council Minutes of 3/18/98 3~ Mr. O'Grady added to his committee report: 1) On March 16, the Finance Committee met with the Intra-Governmental Relations Committee to discuss Ordinance 98-15 which deals with the new dues structure for the Westshore Council of Governments. Currently there are two equal portions of the dues based on the population of the city and property taxes. The proposed change recommends that the first 10% of all costs would be split evenly among the six member cities. The remaining 90% of costs would be based on a formula that is 75% based on population and 25% on the valuation for the last available tax duplicate. The committee recommended approval. Mr. Gareau, Chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The committee met on March 11. In attendance were committee members Miller, McKay and Gareau; Council members Kasler, O'Grady and Limpert; Recreation Commissioner Dolansky; Safety Director Jenkins; Assistant Engineer McDermott; representatives from the Hot Stove Baseball organization; several residents. Agenda items were as follows: a. The Katherine Bennet lot split and consolidation plat. This is a proposal to split the rear half of land designated as P. P. 236-07-001 which fronts on Columbia Road and to join it individually to the rear adjacent parcels of 236-07-003, 236-07-063, 236-07-064, 236-07- 065, 236-07-066, 236-07-067 all of which front on the north side of Arlington Lane. The zoning is C Residence Single and the proposal conforms to the Zoning Code area and frontage requirements. This is a proposal where there is a narrow parcel of land of considerable length that fronts on the west side of Columbia Road south of Lorain. This parcel of land is a buffer between homes on Arlington and the commercial development on Lorain. The proposal seeks to divide this narrow parcel of land and attach each divided segment to the rear half of residential lots, giving the residents an additional 90 to 110 feet of depth to each individual lot. The Planning Commission approved and the Engineering Department had no objections and the BZD Committee unanimously recommended approval. Appropriate legislation will be prepared. b. Ordinance 98-11, an ordinance creating new Section 1367.11 of the Building Code in order to exempt small satellite antennae from the permit fee requirements of Chapter 1367. This matter was previously held in committee pending further Law Department review when the Building Department noted that a conflict between the ordinance and the Ohio Basic Building Code existed. The ordinance seeks to remove permit requirements while the Basic Building Code has requirements for dish antennae more than 2 feet in diameter. This ordinance was drafted to comply with the Federal Communications Commission rules promulgated under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The FCC rules prohibit municipal ordinances from enacting or enforcing laws or regulations which unreasonably interfere or impair the installation, maintenance or use of certain satellite dish or mast antennae. The City of North Olmsted had a permit fee requirement of $150 to install a satellite dish. This was brought to our attention, and on further analysis, it appeared that the $150 permit fee requirement would amount to an unreasonable interference with the maintenance or installation of the satellite dishes. The problem that Council had was the requirement of the Basic Building Code that these be regulated and '`°~ the federal law that stated they could not be regulated. The Law Department reviewed ~,~ 5 _ _ n . _.