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city. The entire area on both sides of the street from Columbia Road to Revere Road, including the subject parcel, is zoned single-family Zone A. The westerly end, west of Revere Road, is in the second zoning district of single-family Zone B. This zone also limits the use to single-family homes but allows slightly smaller minimum lot sizes. In the Zone A single-family zoning district, development is regulated to single-family lots with a minimum width of 80 feet and a minimum lot size of 13,200 square feet. The subject parcel contains a house built in 1863, and the parcel is 5.5 acres in size or just under 240,000 square feet. Under the current single-family A district, this parcel could be used as it is today as one large single-family property, or it could be subdivided into five one -acre parcels and retain the existing house and add four new homes, or as a maximum, the parcel could be developed into about 14 single-family home lots at the maximum density permitted by code, which is 3.3 dwellings per acre. The proposed development, however, of multifamily townhouses of 65 dwellings on 5.5 acres would result in 12 dwellings per acre, approximately four times more than what is permitted by maximum in the existing zoning. According to the Cuyahoga County records, the property at 25896 Butternut Ridge Road was purchased on February 2022 for $200,000. With 14 single-family lots permitted by the existing zoning, the land cost per each one-third acre lot would be approximately $15,000 per lot, which makes this parcel very usable under the current zoning class of single-family A without any further zoning change. Therefore, I recommend the City retain the current zoning for single-family homes and not approve a PUD zoning change that could allow a substantial change in the use of the property, a substantial increase in the density allowed on the property, a substantial intrusion and conflict to the historic district and to the adjacent property owners, and a substantial increase in stormwater flow and traffic flow in the area. Thank you. John Adontick: John Adontick, 6014 Sandpiper. I don't really have much to add to that gentleman's presentation, which was excellent. But I do have two questions to the Council. First, is it important to North Olmsted to retain its historic district? Is that a value or not? This is what you're talking about. I'd also like to ask the following question. I live on property that abuts North Olmsted Golf Course, in that development there are other properties that abut Springvale. If you look at those homes, they're unique, I would say maybe 2,500 square feet. As far as I know, the maximum price of a house that was sold was on the order of $500,000, slightly under. What I read is that this developer is claiming he's going to sell or they're going to sell these properties, which I don't like the word townhouse. Go to Georgetown. Go to Manhattan. Go to a townhouse. This is custom homes. They're no different than what's going out in Olmsted Fall, that Ryan is putting it up for far less. Who's going to buy this for that price? You can have a home that's a normal lot, wooded for less. Who's going to buy these? You're going to be stuck with it. The developer is just going to walk away. I might ask you, who's going to buy this? Is it important that a town retain its historic district? Thank you. Tony Sapienza: Hello. My name is Tony Sapienza, 25760 Butternut Ridge Road. I live three houses away from the project, the Biddulph home here. First of all, 45 homes with their lights in my backyard is not very appealing to me. But let's go back to the historical society that was founded here in 1.2 1.6 25 COUndl Meeting Minutes Page 1