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Council Minutes of 7/18/2000 • Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Streets & Drainage Committee, said he would take this issue into the committee for discussion. • Service Director Bohlmann said that the issue had not been brought to the attention of the Streets & Drainage Committee because it is an in-house project and not a bid project. He has sent out an additional letter for right of entries to all these properties so that we can take care of this project. Indeed, we did send a letter in 1997 to the residents over there, and we did not get to the project because of more pressing matters. We are in a position to take of that project this summer. Dan Koehler, 27960 Marquette Boulevard • He and his neighbors are very concerned about the tower that the cell phone company wants to build on the property the neighbors have been looking at for 25 years. It's a beautiful piece of land. Also, he is really upset about what this project will do to his resale value. He hopes that everything is looked at when it comes to this, and he hopes people are put ahead of industry. • Safety Director Jenkins responded that recently the BZD Committee had reviewed a request by Nextel to co-locate on the Clague Park monopole. Also, they were looking for additional property in northern North Olmsted and southern Westlake. They looked at this piece of property and thought they could locate there. He gave them permission to look at it because the setbacks of 300 feet that are required to residential property are very close there. So they surveyed, and he understands that they are declining from looking at that property. • Mr. Miller asked that, in the future, residents are given prior notice if companies are going to be surveying and knocking on residents' doors or walking through yards. Mr. Jenkins agreed that was a good idea. He had no idea they would be going on anyone's private property as there are three accesses available to that property. He will apologize to any residents who were inconvenienced. With regard to the mosquito problem discussed earlier, this is a annual problem in the city and he encourages residents to call the County Board of Health. They are very responsive and do a good job of following up with calls that they get. Betty Lord, 5917 Gareau Drive • She is the vice-chairman of the Landmarks Commission and would like to ask Council when they intend to involve the Landmarks Commission in the plans for use of the triangle. (The area of Lorain, Porter, Butternut.) The Butternut area is a historic district, therefore, anything that is done with that triangle will impact the Butternut district. It seems that the members of the Landmarks Commission are often either the last to hear about plans or have to read it in the newspaper. She doesn't believe that was the intention of the additional legislation that was put on to the original Landmarks ordinance. They want to be a resource, and they want to work with Council, and they need to be involved. They ask that they are involved before the decisions are made. • Mrs. Kasler said that at the last committee meeting where the library issue was discussed, she did raise the question of whether Landmarks had been involved or consulted with regard to the Butternut Ridge property. Part of the request that she ~`" personally has and some other members of Council have is to see about putting the 11