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City Council Minutes of 1/16/2007 Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning & Development Committee: 1) The committee met this evening, January 16, 2007. Present were committee members Orlowski, Miller and Gareau; Council President Kennedy and Council Members Jones and Barker; Planning Director Wenger, Law Director Dubelko. Three items were on the agenda: • Ordinance 2005-165, an ordinance amending Chapter 149 of the Administrative Code (Planning Commission), repealing Chapter 1125 of the Zoning Code (Architectural Review Board), and amending Chapter 1126 of the Zoning Code (Commercial and Other Building Permits) in order to effectuate the affirmative vote of the North Olmsted electorate at the November 2005 general election upon Issue 97, the Charter Amendment proposal relating to the new Planning & Design Commission. This legislation takes care of some "housekeeping." When the Charter amendment took affect after a vote of the people, we no longer had the Planning Commission as we knew it-we had the Planning & Design Commission. The Architectural Review Board was no longer in existence. This legislation was brought forward some time ago to effectuate that and to establish what had already taken place through the Charter Amendment. The committee unanimously recommended approval of Ordinance 2005-165 as amended. • Ordinance 2006-200, an ordinance amending Section 1321.05 of Chapter 1321 (Permit and Inspection Fees) for the purposes of establishing a separate fee schedule for various city boards and commissions and for increasing some of the fees of the said boards and commissions. Building Commissioner Conway gave the following explanation and opinion of the legislation: "The changes in 1321.05 (A) reflect increasing valuations which are suggested due to the inflationary costs related to construction since we last modified this construction. This will have no cost affect to the applicant and, in effect, may reduce costs in some borderline cases. It is a realistic attempt to reflect the rising cost for construction. The other changes relate to inspections and re-inspection fees that are not covered by building permit fees. These adjustments in most cases are moderate but are requested after studying each area and determining that the current charges do not cover the costs related to these inspections. The current cost of inspectors is in excess of $30 per hour including benefits and the secretarial staff time to process these complaints, and these increases certainly can be justified." An explanation was also provided by Planning Director Kimberly Wenger. The committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of Ordinance 2006-200. • Suburban Collision Center. Some time ago, the committee had discussed the testing requirement that Suburban Collision would, after a period of one year, engage in a new round of tests to determine if there were any emissions from the facility. In November, the committee brought forward this issue to discuss an extension of time whereby additional changes could be made and we could test with the new changes to the facility and we could also do it in a different climatic situation. We are currently in winter, and the odor that people are detecting seems to be affected by temperature and humidity. The committee discussion centered upon whether or not we would extend the timeframe to perhaps June or 5