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Council Minutes of 10/19/1999 Mr. O'Grady, member of the Fair Housing Review Board, reported that the board met on '~" Monday, October 18, at 7 p.m. The chairperson of the board, Jackie Chavez Anderson, has done an outstanding job. (Mrs. Anderson was asked to stand and be recognized.) This evening, Council will consider Ordinance 99-147 for approval under suspension of the rules. When passed, the city will forward our own fair housing code to the Housing and Urban Development Office for consideration. If it is rated by HUD as substantially equivalent to federal law, it will return to us and at that point the City of North Olmsted will have an active fair housing code on the books in our city. Mr. Limpert, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long- Range Planning Committee: 1) The committee met at 7:30 p.m. on October 13, and in attendance were committee members Gareau, Nashar and Limpert; Council President Saringer; Council members McKay, O'Grady and Kasler. The committee discussed Ordinances 99-135 and 99-136 regarding the city's application for Community Development Block Grants. The ordinances were amended to remove the Master Plan and Vision 2000 as a project. The committee learned that the Planning Commission feels that they can amend the Master Plan themselves, thereby greatly relieving some of the costs of that project. The first project listed in Ordinance 99-135 will now be the acquisition and demolition of commercial property. After that would take place, the city would then turn around and sell the property and put the money into handicapped curb cuts. The grant would be for $150,000. The second priority project would be to just do handicapped curb cuts for $150,000. Ordinance 99-136 is an accompanying ordinance for participation by minority business enterprises and women business enterprises. The committee recommended unanimous approval of the amended legislation. 2) The committee met on the same evening at 8 p.m. to discuss Ordinance 99-54, which is the project labor agreement ordinance. There were a number of guests in attendance to discuss this issue. The parties were given until tomorrow to present any further information for the committee's consideration. The committee will meet again to consider the information provided. Mr. Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The committee met on October 12. Present were committee members McKay, Miller and Gareau; Councilperson Limpert; Building Commissioner Conway and Assistant City Engineer McDermott. There was only one item on the agenda although there were two facets to that individual item: • Horizon childcare facility, 23675 Lorain Road, with a request for a conditional use permit to allow the operation of a daycare center in a General Business District. A conditional use permit was approved by City Council in November of 1997. However, due to the fact that the project was not commenced, the conditional use permit expired per ordinance within a year, which was November 25, of 1998. In that the conditional use permit had expired and the fact that Council had previously recommended approval, in addition to the approval of the Planning Commission in both 1997 and 1999, the BZD Committee unanimously recommended approval of the conditional use permit. Mr. Gareau moved that Council approve the request for a conditional use permit to allow the operation of a daycare center in a General 3