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Council Minutes of 3/8/2000 LEGISLATION Ordinance No. 99-82 introduced by Mr. Gareau was given its third reading. An ordinance creating new Section 1126.08 of the Zoning Code of the City of North Olmsted, entitled "Deviations from Approved Plans Prohibited," in order to provide for better remedies against commercial and other developers who, in constructing buildings and other improvements to land, deviate from plans approved by the city, as amended. Mr. Gareau moved for adoption; second by Mr. Nashar; motion passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 99-82 adopted. Ordinance No. 99-109 introduced by Mr. Miller was given its third reading. An ordinance creating new Section 1139.13 of the North Olmsted Zoning Code regulating the outdoor, unenclosed storage of motor vehicles at motor vehicle repair facilities. Mr. Miller moved for adoption; second by Mrs. Kasler. Roll call: Miller, yes; Kasler, yes; Gareau, yes; Limpert, no, with comment that he appreciated the concern for junk vehicles that this is trying to address. But Ordinance 99-109, in effect, is going to create mini- junkyards at all the repair facilities. Out of sight, out of mind seems to be the motto of this. That doesn't mean there isn't still a problem on those sites. Currently, we have Section 521.08 which requires junk vehicles be stored inside after seven days. Why should we change it to forty-five days and then, rather than having the cars stored inside, stored within a fence? These fenced areas will become havens for old tires, exhaust systems, parts cars, cats and wild animals. Stored tires will create water basins for mosquitoes. The ordinance does not call for any criterion on these fenced-in areas, what the setbacks will be, what type of materials they will be, how tall they will be, whether they will be big enough for one, two, ten or a hundred cars. This problem could be addressed in a much more beneficial way. Ugly cars are ugly and ugly fences are ugly also. Roll call continued: McKay, yes; Nashar, yes; O'Grady, no, with comment that he has significant concerns with this piece of legislation, and a lot of it is exactly the same as what Councilman Limpert described. We would not want someone to come into the city and build afenced-in area to store junk cars. With this piece of legislation, all someone has to do to accomplish the same thing is to store two junk cars outside. Then he gets to build a fence, and we have junk cars inside a junk fence, which is a bad idea. The motion passed with five affirmative votes and two negative votes. Ordinance No. 99-109 adopted. Ordinance No. 2000-2 introduced by Mayor Musial was given its third reading. An ordinance to transfer funds from the Bus Fund to the General Fund in the amount of $32,411 for materials and parts reimbursement funds received from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority in the 1997 and 1998 annual audits of the North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line, in which these materials and parts were owned by the City of North Olmsted and declaring an emergency as amended. Mr. McKay moved for adoption; second by Mr. Miller; motion passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2000-2 adopted. 8 ~.. ~ ..., ~ ~, .,.,~~..~~,r,~ n ~ ~ .