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Council Minutes of 9/21/99 2) The Community Development Block Grant Citizens Advisory Board met on September 16. The committee met to narrow down the projects that will be submitted to Council to apply for the CDBG grant. The first project would be funding of $25,000 for Master Plan/Vision 2000. Second, a $125,000 grant to help the city purchase a vacant building on property that is starting to become a slum and blight area. What the city would do with the funding is purchase the property and with our matching funds we would be providing labor in kind for the demolition of that building and the clean-up of the site. The property would then be sold and the money would be used for curb cuts. A third project would be $125,000 funding of ADA curb cuts throughout the city. The committee hopes to receive funding for two of the projects. Mr. Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The committee met on September 15. Present were committee members McKay, Miller and Gareau; Council members O'Grady, Nashar Limpert and Kasler; Mayor Musial; Building Commissioner Conway; City Engineer Deichmann. Agenda items were as follows: • Ordinance 99-127, which reads, "An ordinance providing for the amendment of the Zone Map of the City of North Olmsted by changing the hereinafter described parcels of real property located on Kennedy Ridge Road from Mixed Use District to Single Family Cluster District." The committee discussed the fact that this particular parcel of property is surrounded on two and a half sides, almost three sides, by single and multi-family residential uses. This is essentially on the corner of Columbia and Kennedy Ridge. The committee unanimously agreed that the Mixed Use District as it is presently zoned is incompatible with the adjacent residential use. As zoned with the Mixed Use District, there could actually be commercial or office use in that area. With the proximity of residential properties, the committee felt it was more appropriate to proceed with a less dense and less obtrusive use. The committee also discussed the recommendations of the city's comprehensive plan from 1992 which recommended a change in zoning for that particular parcel to either multi-family or senior housing. Discussing the impact that a higher dense use multi-family would have on the area, the committee unanimously recommended that it should be rezoned to a single family cluster district, which would be the most appropriate use for the land. The committee unanimously recommended approval of Ordinance 99-127. • Ordinance 99-110 was reviewed jointly with the Finance Committee. The ordinance reads, "An ordinance creating new Section 1119.06 of the North Olmsted Zoning Code requiring that developers report certain income tax information to the city prior to obtaining occupancy permits following commercial construction or new residential construction in the city as amended." This ordinance will address the ability of the city to better track payment of local employment taxes by developers and their subcontractors when performing commercial and residential developments in the city. The proposal as written would require the project developer to submit the name of each employee working on the job, the Social Security number of that employee, the address of that employee, the name of the employer involved if it is a subcontractor, the dates that the individual has worked and the wages earned on the job as a condition to receiving any occupancy permit for the completion of the project. The Finance Director and former Finance Director Jim Burns noted that, although the idea 6