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Council Minutes of 1/6/2009 Meredith to the Planning & Design Commission for the term commencing January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2013. The motion was seconded by Councilman Mahoney. Roll call: Gareau, yes; Mahoney, yes, reiterating his prior comments that might have been premature, but with the additional comment that he finds the actions of the Intra- Governmental Committee, to be a bit political and shameful. Roll call continued: Jones, yes; Kearney, yes; Orlowski, no; Ryan, no, with comment that he didn't realize that each member wasn't allowed to exercise their independent decisions. It's unfortunate that someone would make those kinds of statements. He would like to point out, which has been pointed out to him many times, that it was an announced meeting and people certainly could have attended. Unfortunately, only Mr. Orlowski and Mr. Ryan were present. So, if somebody else would have attended the meeting and shared these thoughts, maybe someone would have said the motion should pass. Unfortunately, they chose not to attend , so no one was there to make a motion. To be honest, he may have seconded it at the time. Roll call continued: Barker, yes. The motion passed with five yes votes and two no votes. Mr. Ryan asked for a moment of personal privilege and said he has lived in this community 38 years and raised a family of 10 children. He has been the Prosecutor and the Assistant Prosecutor, and this is the first time anyone has criticized him publicly for being politically motivated. He will stand on his record. Every time he votes and does something, it is for the benefit of Ward I. It's unfortunate that people have to make those kind of indications. Councilman Barker, chairperson of the Building, Zoning & Development Committee: 1) The Building, Zoning and Development Committee met on Tuesday December 9, 2008 at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers. Present were members Barker, Gareau and Jones; Council members Kearney, Mahoney and Orlowski; President of Council Kennedy; Law Director Dubelko, Planning Director Wenger and City Engineer Collins; representing Biddulph Trails were Mr. Zwick, Mr. Liggett and Mr. DeLorenzo; residents. The committee discussed the following: • Ordinance 2008-117 which would re-zone Permanent Parcels 236-23-028, 236- 23-017, 234-24-019, and 236-24-020 from Single Residence to Residential Cluster and also the proposal of COMS 07-0026 Biddulph Trail located at 25747 Bitternut Ridge Rd. Thanks to Planning Director Wenger and her staff for putting together the informational binder for all of Council concerning Biddulph Trail Development. It was very helpful in referencing information from all the meetings and reports from all with interest in this project. In the first meeting, Mr. Liggett gave a presentation showing the proposed development of 29 homes on approximately 10.82 acres of ground running north to south on the south side of Butternut Ridge Road located at 25747 Butternut Ridge Rd. The Landmarks Commission was deeply involved in this proposal because it is in the Historic District. In the August meeting, there was a considerable amount of time spent on sanitary and storm water issues. Mr. Collins gave a lengthy report concerning these issues. It is important to note that it is his opinion that the sanitary issue should not be significant and that with the preliminary drawings regarding storm 8