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book, you can see how much we've lost. We need to stop this and save what we have. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Ms. Matthews: Hello. My name is Hannah Matthews. I live at 26610 Butternut Ridge Road, and I've been a resident for 12 years. I will also be speaking about the Stearns Row project. I question why Butternut Ridge, as we all are questioning, in a place that we are to preserve history, and there are plenty of other places where we can put in a small development. A small development in our area, on our streets, and I'm not saying just the residents of Butternut Ridge, but all of us who live in North Olmsted, it is our space. It makes a very large impact on a place that should be kind of sacred, really. I feel like as time goes on, we lose more and more history. Mr. Sharp mentioned the pocket park. I think that was you, Mr. Sharp, which is metal and neon lights and not very historic. Kind of a precursor to fading away from our history. I understand that the city needs revenue, and I understand that this is a nice chunk for the city. There are also plenty of potential opportunities for revenue, such as focusing on vacant store fronts, focusing on vacancy in the mall, perhaps trying to bring more people to more public space. I also participated in some of the canvassing of our street, and it was really beautiful. I'm close with quite a few of my neighbors, and so it was nice to get back in touch with them. I met some new people, and as Mr. Sharp said, people are very surprised at not knowing what's happening here, the potential of what's happening. I think that, me included, it's a little disturbing that there's not more of an effort to keep residents informed, especially people that are so closely located or related to a potential project that will be directly affected. I found it interesting that people were also, it was unclear as to how many homes were going to be built here. One of my neighbors mentioned that he read an article in the newspaper, and he thought that there would be five homes built on five acres. Every person that I talked to about the quantity of homes was floored and quite upset about it. Anyone who I asked to sign the petition also said absolutely, nobody thought it was a good idea to put in this development. I also just kind of wanted to put it all together of, we're in this time politically of such division, and no matter the resident's age or race or religion or political affiliation, this was something that everybody was agreeing on. Every single person I spoke to agreed that this is a bad idea, that there are other places to put in new developments. I think that that's kind of poignant. I think it's really important. If people of all walks of life can come together and agree on something, it kind of says something right now. How can we listen better? My last point I'd like to bring up is that a couple of my very close neighbors in the past have also been denied when they have asked for things that want to happen for this development. I have a neighbor who has two homes on a single parcel. They wanted to split their property so that they could sell the back home, and they were denied. I have another neighbor who wanted to build a mother-in-law suite for his mother to take care of his family and have his family close, and he was denied, and those are things that are very quickly saying yes to for this development. Council President Pro Tempore Scarl: Ms. Matthews, your time is up. 1.0 2 i-25 Council Meeting Minutes Pa e 1.2