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Councilman Glassburn: Second. Council President Pro Tempore Glassburn: Motion to approve PDC case 85-2024 made by Councilman Limpert, seconded by Councilman Glassburn. Roll call, please. Council Clerk: Mr. Limpert: Yes. Mr. Glassburn: Yes. Ms. Gilchrist: Yes. Mr. Shymske: Yes. Mr. Madden: Yes. Ms. Hemann: Yes. Council President Pro Tempore Glassburn: Yes. PDC case 85-2024 is approved by a vote of 6 - 0. Councilman Limpert: Thank you, Mr. President. • Next on the agenda was Ordinance 2024-62, which is an ordinance creating and adopting a new chapter 157 of the North Olmsted Zoning Code titled Plan Development to Establish a New Zoning District and Regulate Development Plans for the Construction of New Residential Housing. This meeting was a continuation of a meeting from two weeks ago. Mr. Upton provided some additional flow diagrams on how the new project -based review process would look compared to the current review process for Planning and BZBA. Mr. Upton noted that the new process would streamline the approval process and reduce concerns by project owners where excessive variances are needed to be approved over a longer period of time. For instance, a 37 -unit project with two variances per property could lead to a 75 - variance review process and those would be potentially extended over a number of different months. Councilman Limpert noted concerns on the size of the acreage limitations on the new program, which would be one and a half acres, feeling that that was not large enough for the new process to initiate and review how it works. • Mr. Glassburn expressed concerns that without the review by the Building, Zoning Appeals, the excessive number of variances would all come to Council for review without the depth of details on the code, and whether those variances are appropriate and if neighboring residents would be aware of the variances being discussed before approval. Mr. Upton noted that nothing would change in the notification process with this new project -based review and approval. Ms. Hemann expressed concerns that this new process would lead to items coming in piecemeal and not as a whole package, and overall reduce the transparency. The motion was held in committee by a vote of 3-0 and the meeting concluded at 7:46 p.m. Mr. President, this concludes my report. Council President Pro Tempore Glassburn: Thank you. Councilwoman Hemann, Chairwoman of Recreation, Parks, Public Parks and Buildings Committee, do you have a report this evening? 09-17-24 Council Meeting Minutes - Page 7