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through this far. And the reason is because as their council person, that developer would start with me. Tony George even called me one day. I had a 40-minute meeting with him going no, no, no, no. So you know what? The only reason that this got this far is because somehow somewhere in our process I believe that they were encouraged, and I think that that's wrong. I stood firm and told every developer that called me I'm a hard no. I will always be. We have to put, if you want that, you have to go through Landmarks. You have to, you know, go through planning, zoning. It has to be rezoned. You have to put in sewers and pay for them. Unfortunately now, wheeling and dealing, you know, a developer thought, well, they were going to get what they wanted. And I strongly am asking that you just reject this fully because it is not necessary. The project doesn't fit at all into the scheme of things in the single-family homes. These are custom-built homes. Each one of them is different, and honestly, I just hope that you hear all of that and, you know, vote no, and do not let this go forward, thank you. Tony Sapienza: Tony Sapienza, 25760 Butternut Ridge Road. President Pro Tern Scarl: Excuse me, Mr. Sapienza. Excuse me. Right here. You will be the last speaker. This will end at 7:15, okay. Tony Sapienza: Okay. I'll make it quick. Before the winter, if you drove down Butternut Ridge, you've seen a sign in front of everybody's house. Maybe one or two there wasn't a sign. But there was a sign in front of everybody's house. The adjacent streets, signs in front. It shows you how passionate people are, the residents of North Olmsted, not just the Butternut Ridge, on preserving our historic district. If it gets rezoned, there's no going back. There's no stopping what will be in the future. We need to stop this here, protect and preserve our historic district for the future of everybody. There's need for development. Nobody's against development. But where we develop is the key here, is the question. Right now, Butternut Ridge is not the place to target cluster homes. It's a single-family residence. And that's the way we want to keep it. We want to keep it that way. We want to keep it historical. We don't want it destroyed, wiped out by cluster homes, one development, then the next development, then the next development. Then there is no historic district. We lost the heart of North Olmsted if we allow this proposal to rezone Butternut Ridge. So I just respectfully ask all of you to keep all of these residents in mind, all the city of North Olmsted. Help us protect Butternut Ridge. Preserve our historic district. Thank you very much. President Pro Tern Scarl: Is there anyone else that would like to speak for two minutes? Please come to the podium. Marcus Masello: I'll give this a shot. Marcus Masello. I'm at 27875 Gardenia Drive. So if you take a look at me, this is my first meeting here, but if you take a look, I'm about, I wouldn't say, about 20 years younger than the average age here. So the reason I came here is because I moved here less than two years ago. So I'm a very new member here of this community. I love it. My wife and I lived here. I'm an 02-24-26 Public Nearing Minutes Page 7