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Council Minutes of 1/2/2007 r Councilman Gareau made a motion to amend Ordinance 2006-122 to incorporate the definitional section and the changes as referenced above and as written in the amended Ordinance 2006-122 as presented and available for review. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker. Roll call: Gareau, yes; Barker, yes; Tallon, yes; Ryan, yes; Miller, no; Orlowski, yes; Jones, yes. The motion passed with six yes votes and one no vote. Ordinance No. 2006-122 is amended. • The second item on the committee agenda was Ordinance 2006-164. This is legislation making zoning changes to a number of parcels of land located in the Barton/Bradley area which would be changed from their respective current zoning classifications of Limited Industrial, Mixed Use, Single Family Residence and/or Multiple Residence, some of which are split-zoned, to the new Residential Office District classification. It is important to note the history on this goes back to previous master plans which were undertaken by the City of North Olmsted. They have dealt with what to do with the particular area of Bradley Road from Barton Road to the North Ridgeville county line. For a number of years, there has been a recommendation that the use should be one of residential as opposed to limited industry. The recommendations throughout the course of the years have dealt with the north side of the street, and not the south side. The Bradley Road area by the south side toward Timber Trails had a recommendation that for the most part stayed limited industry. The other side of the street had a recommendation for a residential use. It is kind of a hodgepodge right now with a number of different zoning classifications in what is actually a very small area- from Limited Industry, which is the only industry class we have, all the way to Mixed Use which could allow a number of different types of uses to Single Family/Multiple Residence all included in a very small area. This legislation would make a blanket zoning change to all parcels on the north and several parcels on the south from Wild Oak toward the Barton/Bradley Soccer Field. On the other side, the parcels would remain Limited Industry. It would create wholesale change of zoning to a Residential Office use. Our Planning Director did a very good job of presenting a breakdown of permitted uses, the conditional uses, the prohibited uses, landscaping requirements, screening requirements, lot coverage, lot size, front building setback, rear building setback and rear parking setback for both the Residential Office and for Limited Industry and Multiple Residence. She also discussed non-conforming buildings and uses and explained that currently, because some of the uses on the site for instance are residential and it's zoned industrial, owners are limited in what they are permitted to do with their property. Ms. Wenger presented the issues of maintenance and repair, alteration or enlargement of current non-conforming buildings, moving buildings, restoration of damaged buildings, change of use, discontinuation of use, which were discussed. She also presented a map indicating the 2005 Master Plan recommendation which was adopted by City Council and which dealt with what specifically was recommended to be zoned residential. (The comparison chart and presentation is appended to these minutes.) It is important to note that, when the legislation was first introduced, there was a larger area of land that was recommended for rezoning to a residential use than what the 2005 Master Plan 5