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Council Minutes of 2/1/2005 the south side and the appearance this would give the building when traveling down Brookpark Road. Whereas once there was an area of grass, now there would be grass and parking. There were some aesthetic considerations as well with the view from the south side and what impact the parking would have. Again, it was a green space issue. The Planner commented that the line of travel proposed for the parking area was hazardous and it was suggested that vehicles would have to back up in order to properly use the traffic pattern that was proposed. Everybody agreed. that was not a good idea. Mr. McKay suggested that by moving the buildings back they become more equal with the second story of most of the homes and that would be intrusive to the residential properties. The committee expressed an opinion, along with most of the members of Council, that the proposed changes were not acceptable. The plan originally presented to Council for Parcel E contemplated an aesthetically pleasing environment-almost a lifestyle center. This pro~sal is believed to be the latest attempt to deviate from that and to bring the project away from what was once a charming and attractive project to simply nothing more than a strip center. City Council expressed its opinion when they said they did not believe it was an appropriate change. Because it was an informal proposal, there was no vote taken. • Review of Resolution 2005-9, a resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter a project labor agreement with the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council in connection with the construction of new fire station No. 2 and declaring an emergency. Terrence Joyce was present on the behalf of labor. He is with the Laborers International Union of North America, Loca1310 and is also affiliated with the Construction Trades Council as its current president. During the discussion almut the merits of the PLA, Mr. Joyce represented that his organization is more than happy to have discussion with the city. He said this was not so much an issue about labor peace and insuring there is no walkout, but did say there were a number of agreements set to expire and this would avoid potential work stoppages. He emphasized the fact this is a safe workplace-they have enacted standards to ensure those workers on the site not only comply with safety standards, but also are drug and alcohol free, which he felt was an important issue. The Mayor had oat yet taken a position on this and had not entered into discussions with the Council concerning a PLA. The committee unanimously voted to recommend approval of the resolution. • Ordinance 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. The legislation will be held in committee until a public hearing is held. He will report on this in more detail at a future time. • Ordinance 2005-11, an ordinance amending Sections 1363.08 and 1363.10 of Chapter 1363 of the Real Property Maintenance Code by removing the administrative appeal and variance procedures contained therein and otherwise streamlining the violation and notice procedures contained therein in order to provide for more effective real property maintenance code enforcement in the City of North Olmsted and declaring an emergency. This was a fairly comprehensive rewrite of the notice provisions of our real property maintenance code. Generally speaking, the opinion of the committee was that the recommendations were good. However, it was brought to the committee's attention that by removing these sections we may have created a conflict with our Charter which needs to be addressed. After that matter was brought forward by Mr. Burns, it was referred back to the Law Department for review as to whether to continue forward with this ordinance or introduce a new ordinance to make 7