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Council Minutes of 2/17/2004 ,; passionate on this, they should vote no on a closed session meeting so all can come in ' and see what the lawsuit is about and what the strategy of Council is. • He is concerned about being stopped on a walk through a new development currently under construction off of Kennedy Ridge Road. Perhaps the city should take a close look at what is being put up. He recommends a close scrutiny be made. Good construction is good safety, and good construction is a good city. Shabby construction and old housing stock drags the city down. Janet Saringer, 23336 Stoneybrook Drive. • Expressed concern about the rezoning at Claque and Lorain Road and felt it might be spot zoning. Councilman McKay explained it was not spot zoning as the area is retail on three sides of the pazcels. All this will do is squaze off or make the line even. • Feels the note ordinances should include borrowing for Claque Road. She asked last year that Claque to taken into consideration in the budget. There is no street as bad as Claque Road. Councilman Dailey explained that this road had been discussed during past meetings. The county plans to repair the road in two years. Service Director Driscoll has been in conversation with the County Engineer's office hoping to get them to move the project up by a couple years. The city will have to use aBand-Aid approach for now. Councilman Nashaz said the cost of repair would be approximately $600,000, and it would be an 80/20 split between the county and the city. The city is hoping to receive Issue 2 funds. Councilman Miller said he would urge the administration to come forward with a plan that would urge the county to move this project up. The city should do everything it can to get funding for this year and don't waste money on the Band-Aids. Bruce Bruehler, 4440 Root Road. Has lived an Root Road for 32 years. His comments aze a preemptive strike. In the neaz future, Ganley is coming before Council asking for a zoning change. The area is between Root Road and Ranchview. Gamey is going to .ask Council to turn residential property into commercial to the tune of 380 feet in addition to what they already have, which is 500. So they would be going back off Lorain Road almost 900 feet. He attended the first Planning meeting when Gamey made the presentation, and the city refused to let them turn their residential property into their water retention because they would have to cut down trees. Gamey then rescheduled and came before Planning Commission again, and in a remazkable reversal of their stand, not only did they vote to turn into commercial but they voted to turn it into a parking lot 880 feet off Lorain Road with no water retention basin. He takes offense at this. The Planning Director said she set up meetings between Gamey and residents on Ranchview and everybody was happy about it. He was never contacted, and his property abuts the whole north side of Ganley's property. That property has been residential for the last 32 yeazs and longer. He bought his property knowing that it was residential and bought property behind him knowing the abutting property was residential. He bought the house next to him because the city at that time forced the division of a piece of property from commercial to residential to make a buffer zone. Now in a complete reversal, it seems to be going to other way and graining a rezoning of residential property into commercial property back almost 900 feet off of Lorain Road. This will set a precedent. He believes this rezoning will affect the value of 9