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°~. MINUTES OF THE PUBLIC HEARING NORTH OLMSTED CITY COUNCIL OCTOBER 7, 2(!08 Present: President of Council Kennedy, Council Members Barker, Dailey Jones, Kearney, Mahoney, Orlowski, Ryan Also Present: Law Director Dubelko, Acting Clerk of Council Murphy President of Council Kennedy called the public hearing to order at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. President Kennedy announced the public hearing was being held in regards to Ordinance No. 2008-.117. Ordinance No. 2008-117 is an ordinance providing for the amendment of the Zone Map of the City of North Olmsted by rezoning Permanent Parcel Numbers 236-23-028, 236- 23-017, 236-24-019, and 236-24-020, located on Butternut Ridge Road east of Canterbury Road, from Single Residence A to Residential Cluster District. Councilman Orlowski noted there are two parcels that are listed under Volume 11686, Page 669. He would like to have clarification as to the ownership of those two parcels. AUDIENCE PARTICI~~TION 1) Brian Gorris, 25845 Butternut Ridge, has lived in this residence since 1974 and noted that this particular proposal came before the Planning Commission in 1997. At that time, Planning Commission rejected it unanimously because they felt that, among other things, the residents in the area bought their houses as A Residential, and they deserved to retain that housing as A Residential. The biggest change since 1997 on Butternut Ridge Road is probably traffic. The studies never talk about traffic or else the engineers glance over it and it does not have much of an impact. But Butternut Ridge Road is about 1.3 miles in length and it has five traffic signals. It's a residential neighborhood. Another issue that is of concern is in the short stretch of Butternut Ridge from Canterbury to Great Northern Blvd., there are three major parcels of land that are significant in size, at least equal to or of this size, that could be rezoned. There are currently 39 homes in that stretch from Canterbury to Great Northern. The potential is there of adding probably 100 houses if each of those major parcels were rezoned to a cluster. He has addressed these issues in a letter to the Planning Commission. They apparently ignored it or they didn't consider it that important. But he urges Council to listen to the residents and to review the Planning Commission minutes from 1997 because he really doesn't think anything has changed. He urges Council to vote against this. .