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Y ~ CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED MINUTES OF THE PUBLIC HEARING MARCH 15, 20(15 Present: Council President O'Grady, Council Members Dailey, Gazeau, Limpert, McKay, Nashaz Also Present: Law Director Dubelko, Planning Director Wenger, Clerk of Council Seman Council President O'Grady called the public hearing to order at 6:47 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. President O'Grady announced that the public hearing was being held with regazd to Ordinance No. 2004-200, an ordinance amending Sections 1115.02 and 1139.06 of the city's Zoning Code in order to better define and distinguish different categories of restaurants for Zoning Code purposes, and to exclude small sandwich shops from the 1.5 acre minimum lot size requirement of the General Retail Business District regulations, as amended. AU_ pIENCE PARTICIPATION Jeff Sturgeon, 3092 W. 231 Street, is concerned about this ordinance as he believes the definition of restaurant needs to be changed but is not sure this is the right way of doing it. It is vague and it could hurt some of the areas in North Olmsted. He believes this began with the Claque Road area as Wendy's and Dunkin Donuts have tried to locate there. This was basically the reason that Dunkin Donuts could not locate into a lot that less than 10 yeazs ago was rezoned and was never a commercial lot on Claque Road. He would like to see Claque Road stay residential. If we do have aspawn-off on a residential street, which is starting to happen on Claque Road as three houses on the north side were bought off, what is to stop this from happening on other streets such as Columbia, Walter Road, and Barton Road. Councilman Gazeau said Mr. Sturgeon was right that this covers the entire community. This was originally brought to his attention by virtue of a proposed Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts. It also was brought up a second time where our definitions were inadequate on Rt. 252, Great Northern Boulevard. There aze amendments to the ordinance brought forward at the Planning Commission which are being considered. This is one of the situations where our Zoning Code is less than perfect, but we are trying to fix these situations when they occur. He does not have the intention of using this to spread any particular use down any particular street. This particular lot had the Goodwill store on it at one time, and he believes there was a curb cut onto Claque Road. As long as he can remember, there has been a commercial use on that lot. However, we do need to clean up the definitions that are currently in the code. Mr. Sturgeon said he did not think Great Northern, which is definitely commercial, should be compared to Claque Road which is definitely residential. He would like the code changed to protect what is there. He is surprised that the definition uses heating food-that may be a first to define restaurant by using the cooking method as a definition. Councilman Gazeau gave an example of how odd our current Zoning Code is. The current code would not permit afree-standing structure of a donut shop in that area. If a small strip center was built on that parcel, and built completely within code, then the donut shop could locate in one of the stores. He and the City Planner have discussed this situation, and he plans to have more meetings on this issue. Mr. Sturgeon said he just wants to