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some consideration can be given to taking another look at the city and seeing if there is a better solution. Thank you. Mr. Bob Perry: My name is Bob Perry. I live at 27150 Butternut Ridge Road. We bought our house in 1976, and we lived there and raised our kids who went to Butternut School and went to North Olmsted High School. And when I retired from being a planning director in Westlake, we had thought about moving out of the city. We looked at a lot of places because we were looking for a ranch house, and we were in an older two-story home, and we didn't really find what we liked. We really loved where we were. We liked Butternut Ridge Road, the street of all single-family homes. And so instead of moving out of the city, we decided to stay and build an addition on the back of the house, so we'd have one floor living. And we just figured we'll just live here for the rest of our lives. Butternut is all single-family homes, all the century homes that are on it. Our house is now 105 years old, and we've maintained it as best we can. And I'm really concerned about the idea of rezoning and having high -density housing right on Butternut. Because there are some large parcels, homes that have large backyards, and I think if you do it once, it's going to be like a Lays potato chip, you can't stop. You'll set a precedent. Somebody across the street has, I hear, nine acres. That'll be asked to be rezoned. There's a property up a couple houses from me. They have some back land. They'll come in and want to develop and sell their land to a developer, and pretty soon, the houses, the older houses, won't be kept up, and they'll end up getting lesser value. Somebody will buy it and buy it and tear it down. And eventually, you won't have a historic district. You'll have a bunch of new multifamily homes, houses or apartments, townhouses, whatever, but it won't be a historic district. That would be a real shame. Probably won't affect us. I don't know how long we're going to live, but we're going to stay here as long as we can, and I would hate to see Butternut Bridge Road change into a new multifamily kind of housing area. There's plenty of places on Lorain Road, there's plenty of places on other major arterials that aren't historic districts that that kind of development should go into. That's all I can say. Mr. Jim Wozniak: Hi. Jim Wozniak, 26487 Butternut Ridge Road. Retired city planner from Bay Village, and born and raised in North Olmsted. Growing up here as a kid, I used to ride my bike down the middle of Butternut Ridge Road. Of course, I'd never do that today. And years back, maybe 10, 15 years ago, when I was afraid Shore West was going to put condos behind my parcel because my neighbor was selling theirs and thus having enough land to split it, me and a neighbor purchased three acres, so that wouldn't happen. So now what I'm asking now is to encourage zoning and planning, not to rezone any other parcels in Butternut Ridge Road, because not only will it open it up across the street, but even my house could be rezoned and put parcels back there, which I would never do, but there's more than one set of parcels that could be done. So I'm just asking for encouragement to negate the rezoning, and I'm not sure why it even passed the building department. I mean, if somebody requested a rezoning of a property on Butternut, I would have just said no, and it would have been a done deal. So thank you. 1.1..05-25 Council Meeting Minutes 'age 13