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Council Minutes of 2/1/20{15 in public areas. It was agreed that at a future time professional speakers who are informed on this topic will be invited to make presentations to Council. 2) This evening the committee met to discuss a liquor transfer for William F. Smith, DBA Beverage Consultants, 30871 Lorain Road, Unit C, a C1, C2 license to Beverage Consultants LLC at the same address. The committee recommended to not object as the Police Department had no objection. Councilman Miller made a motion that Council not object to the Cl, C2 liquor license transfer from William F. Smith DBA Beverage Consultants, 30871 Lorain Road, Unit C to Beverage Consultants LLC, 30871 Lorain Road, Unit C. The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Kas1er and passed unanimously. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, January 25. Present were committee members, all members of Council, the President of Council, the Mayor, the Planning Director and Law Director and the Building Commissioner. Agenda items were as follows: • Kennedy Ridge Townhouses, a Planning Commission referral for a modification to a previous light proposal. Lighting standards originally approved on this project and presented to Council were for 15 inches along the driveway. When the project was constructed, there was a mistake made and the lights were installed at 15 feet. The lights were subsequently dropped to 12 feet. However, City Council felt the original theme of a lower lighting was most appropriate but did subsequently recommend approval of 24 inches. This was brought back again as the 24 inch lightscaping proposal. They will be installed with shields, and are more ornamental lighting. It is entirely consistent with our light code and meets the objective of lighting the path of the driveway. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the Kennedy Ridge Townhouses lighting modification. Councilman Gareau moved that Council approve the modification to the lighting plan for the Kennedy Ridge Townhouses. The motion was seconded by Councilman McKay and passed unanimously. • Carnegie Mgt. and Development came in to discuss a conceptual amendment to the preliminary land use plan for Parcel E. This was not a formal presentation because the amendment has not been submitted. Bob Berryhill presented the modified preliminary land use plan and said, because of a utility cost concern of relocation, Carnegie Mgt. is suggesting that two of the buildings be modified. The two buildings are on the western end of property. One of buildings would be reduced from 31,000 sq. feet to 22,000 sq. feet. The other increased from 31,000 sq. feet to 40,000 sq. feet. Buildings B and D would now be an all office use. A dock area was added with additional screening. There was a courtyard between two of the buildings which would be removed and replaced with parking because apparently some of the business tenants object to having to share space with retail parking. There was an attempt to try to separate the two parking areas by moving the buildings back 60 feet closer to the residences on the north and adding a parking to the front of the building. Whereas once along Brookpark Road with the buildings on the west, you would see grass and the buildings with parking in the rear. The proposed change would slide the building back and put a strip of parking in front of the building and retain some of the parking in the rear. The total move back would have been 60 feet. Objections were immediately raised by members of Council. First, was the relocation of the building and suggestion that it should not be moved back closer to the residential properties. It was discussed that, when the project was originally approved, the residential homeowners to the rear on the north knew that the property would have parking in the back and that was okay. They would rather have the parking instead of the building. The other issue discussed was the loss of green space on 6