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speakers there. The speaker I heard spoke about Grandma Moses. She spoke for one hour,
<br />which was a wonderful speech. There were lunches. There was a concert, and all of this cost me
<br />$4. They not only have the annual quilt show, they have pages, they have 12 pages of different
<br />events that are held at the senior center. They have lessons. They have tap dancing lessons.
<br />They have guitar and so on. They have a [inaudible] club, which I'm in. They have all kinds of
<br />other lessons. They have health screenings. They have speakers there. They have concerts. They
<br />have all kinds of dancing lessons, Irish dance, and so on and so forth. Twelve pages of things
<br />that are held at the Rocky River Senior Center. We have one page... one page. Nothing is done
<br />for us at the North Olmsted Senior Center, except maybe, well, there's Tai Chi. There's maybe
<br />chair yoga. That's about it. One page. We, who have built this city, get nothing. We are the
<br />seventh highest taxed city in this county... seventh. We, who helped build this city, get nothing,
<br />but the children get good schools. They're building four baseball diamonds, two soccer fields.
<br />What else? They're going to have a pickleball field, a tennis field, playgrounds, splash pads, and
<br />we get nothing. I'm going to take this to the Mayor, and she can see the difference between the
<br />Rocky River Senior Center and our Senior Center. Considering that we are the seventh highest
<br />taxed city in this county and get nothing for it, it's shameful. It really is, and that is my...
<br />Robert Sharp:
<br />Good evening. I'm Robert Sharp, S-H-A-R-P of 25407 Butternut Ridge, here in North Olmsted.
<br />I'm just going to take a few minutes and talk about this project. I understand the statement,
<br />and I do understand that they're entitled to due process, that they have to go through the
<br />process, but there's something different here. The Mayor supports this project, she's
<br />recommending this zoning change to take place, which, in effect, sacrifices everybody on the
<br />street. We provided specific evidence through the 2025 city plan that nothing here conforms to
<br />that plan. There's nothing in that plan to justify this. In response to this, we've activated our
<br />homeowners fund. We're continuing to grow, and we'll keep active into the future. We're not
<br />going to back off on this whatsoever. We're posting signs, and we're gathering petition
<br />signatures, and we have so many, I haven't even counted them all yet. It's just overwhelming. I
<br />mean, we're overwhelmed. We've ordered signs three times, and we're going to run out of
<br />signs. Fifty signatures were dropped off to me today from all over this city. The wishes of the
<br />residents have to mean something, besides all the documentation we've provided. Andorra
<br />Drive, Revere Drive, Burns Drive, Pompton Drive, Country Club Boulevard, Lyndgate, Fielding
<br />Drive, Edgepark, Linwood, Bellevue, Mitchell, I could go on. We're coming across a lot of angry
<br />people. Everybody wants to sign these petitions. The petitions are going to be online now so
<br />people can sign them because we just can't handle all this. How much this is overwhelming us,
<br />trying to handle this thing. Even the media, and I did not contact the media. The media cold -
<br />called to my house. I was downstairs, and my wife told me, the media's at your door, so I talked
<br />to them. I did not contact the media. Even they didn't understand why this is being proposed.
<br />They said, why would you want to do that in this historic district? And that's a good question.
<br />Of all the other possibilities in this city that need attention, why the middle of the historic
<br />district? It just doesn't make sense at all. We provided the specific documented evidence to
<br />show the project is not justified or compatible with either the 2025 master plan or the historic
<br />district guidelines. I haven't given that report to council yet, but I will. So this, included with the
<br />opinion of the residents, leaves what to justify this? If we've provided documentation to show
<br />1.1. 1.8 Z5 Council Meeting Minutes Page
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