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Councilman Limpert: This is the first time that this piece of proposal is in front of our Council for a public hearing, for us to review and have a meeting on and vote on. John Adamczyk: Well maybe you can inform me, what was the previous meeting about? Law Director Gareau: Mr. Chairman, the previous meetings were the Planning and Design Commission. It was also a meeting before the Landmarks Commission. This issue, although it has been spoken about over a number of different months at this meeting, was because people wanted to come up and speak. It wasn't actually an issue before this body until now. [Mr. Adamczyk is inaudible walking away from the mic having discussion with Law Director Gareau] Law Director Gareau: We're splitting hairs because the issue is that this is the first time that the issue was formally before this board. You could come up to any meeting to speak about any issue at any point, but it hasn't been set for an actual hearing with these guys. Good point. That's fine. Councilman Limpert: Thank you, Law Director. Hannah Matthews: Good evening. My name is Hannah Matthews and I live at 26610 Butternut Ridge Road. I first want to just acknowledge what a beautiful group of people has been coming here before you on a regular basis with peace and kindness and compassion and real community, and I think that that speaks volumes. I've spoken about this before, so just a little reminder. Rezoning this property is a bit of a slap in the face. I've had two very close neighbors who have asked to split a property, where there are two homes on one parcel. That was met with a hard no. Another family asked to build a mother-in-law suite for their family, also hard no. And these are pretty recent requests that have been denied. So if you can't offer that to our community members personally, it just feels like an attack. Or maybe not an attack, but just injustice if you're going to let somebody else have those opportunities. That's all. Thank you. Bill Rhodes: Hello everyone. My name is Bill Rhodes. I live at 25800 Butternut Ridge Road. I'm coming before you on a personal note on how this is going to affect me as an individual. My property is right next door. I have a 93-year-old mother, and her bedroom will be 25 feet from the entrance to the subdivision, and her heart is broken. She's going to die listening to chainsaws, and the front loaders, concrete trucks, all those things that are going to tear Butternut Ridge Road up. You know, this is going to go on for one and a half to three years. Bull. Three plus years. I don't think anybody quite realizes what this entails. I live next door. Have you seen it back there? Oh my 02-24-26 Public Tearing Minutes Page 4