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1953. Over 70 years, they've been trying to protect our historical society, and now we're at a
<br />point, and there's always developers coming in wanting to develop this. Do we really want to
<br />put cluster homes on Butternut Ridge Road? This is crazy. It's just crazy. It is so out of place, it's
<br />unbelievable. They say there's only 30 cars peak that would add to the streets, to traffic. They
<br />don't account for landscapers, carpenters, all sorts of people, trash people, which is another
<br />thing. Garbage men aren't going to stop at every cluster home to pick up trash. There's going to
<br />probably be a local trash bin. If you ever live next to a department store or something and hear
<br />the dumpsters coming at 6 o'clock in the morning to deliver the dumpsters, that's your alarm
<br />clock. That's what we're going to be hearing. The lights, the flood, and the extra water coming
<br />out of there is ridiculous. All you have to do is drive down Butternut Road. I don't even know if
<br />there's a house without a sign in front of it that says, you know, save our historic district, no 45
<br />homes. Not only Butternut Ridge, we see them on Stearns, we see them on Decker, we see
<br />them on Porter, we see them on Mastic, we see them on Kennedy Ridge. Nobody, nobody
<br />wants this in our historic district. If anything, we should be giving tax breaks or some kind of
<br />grants to people that keep up these homes, these historic homes, not move in new stuff. And
<br />it's not just that piece of property. Catty -corner to that, there's nine acres. The City owns it.
<br />They say there's no plans to develop that. If that's the case, then how come every time that
<br />Howard Hanna sign falls over, somebody's there to pick it back up? If that gets, if this gets
<br />rezoned, which is a ridiculous notion, if they rezone that piece of property, there's no stopping
<br />from rezoning that, 30 car traffic at peak hour? No. Try 90, because they could build double the
<br />homes across the street. We have a street that the surrounding areas do not have. Fairview
<br />doesn't have a historic district. Westlake, North Ridgeville, just to name a few. We have
<br />something special in this city. This is something that brings people to our city. Not cluster
<br />homes, not condos. That doesn't belong there. There's over 40 acres combined property from
<br />these schools that are being tore down. Let them build there. That's more, a better place to
<br />build that kind of housing, if that's what they're going to build. You know, we're not, nobody's
<br />against developing, but it's where you develop. Now, the city is supposed to listen to their
<br />residents. The residents of North Olmsted, the residents of Butternut Ridge, and it's clear, just
<br />drive down Butternut Ridge and surrounding areas. It's clear nobody wants this. Does anybody
<br />here want rezoning on Butternut Ridge? Who here strongly opposes rezoning of Butternut
<br />Ridge? Raise your hand. This is your residents. This isn't only Butternut Ridge. This is North
<br />Olmsted, and this is the people. There's so many people in North Olmsted that aren't here, that
<br />I have spoken to, that are just saying this is insane. It's insane.
<br />Council President Brossard:
<br />Mr. Sapienza, that's five minutes
<br />Tony Sapienza:
<br />Okay, thank you very much.
<br />Diane Sapienza:
<br />Hello. I'm Diane Sapienza, 25760 Butternut Ridge Road. I also am very much opposed to the
<br />new development and rezoning. Thank you very much. No.
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