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James A & Florence J Burns 3978 Dover Center Rd North Olmsted, OH 44070-1704 To: Council, Mayor, Economic Developement Director From: Jim Burns (personal) Re: Ordinance 2024-62 - Planned Development Zoning District At the brief September 24th Councl committee meeting, Councilman Limpert said that this proposal was OK because it was for the Forest Elementary School property redevelopment project. In fact a whereas clause in the ordinance implies the same thing. Have any of you seen the proposed redevelopment proposal plan for which this zoning code request has been made? Are you aware of the zoning code variances that will be circumvented by this new zoning code? Have you read the proposed Chapter 1157 and compared it to the zoning requirements it will replace? If this new Zoning Code Chapter is approved it will be available for any qualifying space in North Olmsted such as Pine School. This type of change requies in depth review and not just listening to what certain individuals say. When we redid the Zoning Code a few years ago we did it through a committee of statkeholders with an independent consultant over a few months. Zoning is the most important area of city government you will take part in. It requires a great amount of due diligence. To verify that varrying from existing standards is the gaol of this legislation lets just look at the proposed Chapter 1157: Section 1157.01(A): Planned Development zoning will "allow more flexability.and creativity in design to achieve high quality, integrated site planning not otherwise possible under the constraints of normal zoning requirements." In other words, normal zoning requirements need to be thrown out so that this project can be flexable and creative. Creative in the developer's mind not the city. Section 1157.01 (D) 1: Designs "that offer types or densities of development that are not available under the other Sections of this Code." How dense are they going to be? Are houses going to be right next to each other with no front yards and small back yards? With more people in the development because of the density of buildings will trafic become a problem for the ajoining developments? Will police and fire access be compromised? We just don't know because their proposed densities are not available under other Sections of our Code. Section 1157.010) 2: "Designs that utilize a creative approach." This means that their design can disregard our Zoning standards to be what ever the developer wants it to be. You will turn city Zoning over to the developer. Council needs to tell the developer world that thay can't do whatever they want and must comply to our Zoning Code with properly approved Variances as needed. Council also needs to review the proposed plans for the project before even considering a Zoning Code change being made for that project.