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Special Council Minutes of 5/26/2004 Ordinance 2004-39. Again, it was stressed to the residents at that time that the site plan and Ordinance 2004-39 would be dealt with separately. The Flanning Commission reviewed the site proposal on January 27, 2004. It was unanimously approved at that time. The committee first addressed the site plan on April 28, 2004, after the April 20, 2004 public hearing. The public hearing, for the record, had to be set at least thirty days prior to the hearing to accommodate legal notices. It was also discussed on May 17, 2004 and again on May 26, 2004. The project details are as follows: The building will be 34,200 feet. It will employ an additional 30 persons, with the potential for an additiona120 in the future. The payroll tax is on income on the order of 1.3 to 2.0 million annually, or $26,400.00 to $40,000.00 in income tax generated. The project has a budgeted cost, as represented by the developer, of $2.7 million dollars. The proposal is to erect the structure on the eastern quadrant of the five parcels. No modifications will be made to the current two structures also located on the site. The building will be set back 88 feet from the street. There will be no display along Lorain Road to accommodate landscaped strips. The site will be buffered on the west with a six foot vinyl fence. The fence will traverse the entire western border where the rear yards on Ranchview are located. It was represented that this was expressly worked out with the residents on Ranchview. The agreement is as follows: 1. Ganley will increase the side yard set back from 20 to 25 feet from the property line; 2. They will remove all miscellaneous vegetation in the setback zone; 3. They will maintain and manicure all healthy trees with a trunk diameter of 4 inches or more in the side yard; 4. They will install the fence 20 feet from the resident's property line into their own property line; 5. They will extend residence current chain link fences to the new board on board fence erected on their property; 6. They will plant a variety of evergreen fences within the side yard; 7. They will execute an easement to permit the residences to utilize the additional 20 foot rear yard; Considerable discussion arose as to the buffering on the property to the north. The developer noted that there is, for most of the lot, about 300 feet of woodlands between the property on the north and the rear yards of the homes on Timber Cove. However, it was pointed out that is not entirely the case for the entire northern property line where some areas have been cleared. The developer originally proposed a chain link fence; it was then suggested at later meetings that a 6 foot fence be used of a solid nature, then there was a 3 foot mound added with either a 6 foot fence or a row of arborvitae trees to form a green screen; and then on May 26, a proposal was made that there be a 6 foot fence with a 6 foot mound atop of the fence. The eastern property, because it is commercial, is lightly landscaped with a fence to secure the premises. 3