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saying, we knew nothing about this, and I know it's hard. The newspapers, whoever contacted them, they're still on it. TV stations, they're still on it. And it's not speaking well of North Olmsted, I might add, and we're even in that situation. One thing I'll add here. When I say nobody talks about what's going on with the Butternut Ridge deal, we got our North Olmsted News, anybody read it? Anybody get one? So I don't know, it's odd that there's nothing in here at all about what's going on here tonight. Again, it must have been by accident. I don't know. I would just want to urge you to really deeply consider this. It's more than money. You're getting neighbors and people [inaudible] who are angry. I'm not angry. I'm not. We want to be respectful to you. But we also clearly want you to know that we are not going to give up, as Bob said. He's done a lot of the hard work in terms of that. I just want each one of you to dig deep and realize this is becoming a full-time, part-time job, you know, being here. But I'm learning a lot. But I want to thank all of you for listening to us. Ann Whitney: Good evening. My name is Ann Whitney. My address is 4540 Carson Lane, off of Dover, right near Pine School, and I'm hoping we can come to a decision between Chestnut, Maple, and Pine, and avoid the issues that these poor people are going through on Butternut, to be transparent and let us know what's being talked about, what's being decided, and include us in those discussions. Changes to the infrastructure, depending on what you do with those sites, could drastically affect the neighborhoods all around them, and they built all of the stores and buildings up on the extension. Many homes in Pine Ridge were flooded because of all the concrete and pavement. They then built a huge, I don't know what you call it... Council President Brossard: Detention basin. Ann Whitney: Thank you, behind Pine School, and that solved the problem. Now, if you go in and build multiple homes, or whatever gets decided, you've got to take all this into account when you're deciding what to do with that property, and it doesn't always have to be more houses. Green space is good. There's a playground there now. People walk their dogs. People go there and practice sports, and you're going to take all that away if you change the zoning or whatever path you take. So I'm just here to advocate for Pine Ridge specifically, but for all the people that live near Maple and Chestnut as well, so that we don't end up in the quagmire that people on Butternut Ridge are in. Economic Development Director Upton: Ma'am, I'm sorry I missed your name, I was writing down your address, but I just wanted to say that we have an Ordinance on tonight's agenda. It's 2025-115. It is an Ordinance that will allow us to engage a planning firm to help to start to lay out the Pine, Maple, and Chestnut school sites to do exactly what you're talking about, speak with the residents. See what the highest and best use of the land is. Is it wet? Where does it drain? All of those sorts of things. And that'll be a year -long process where there'll be several public interactions. And so we hear you loud and clear on that, and because we are owning the land, and we are the ones selling the 11 18,25 Council Meeting Minutes - Fags