"DIRTY WATER" the standells

Attend last night's Board of Zoning meeting. Sometimes without realizing it there are some very interesting subjects that come up. Last night the owners of the Self Storage units on Chestnut St. wanted to build two new buildings south of the present ones. If you have a memory the city just rezoned some of that property to Residential less than two years ago. The two buildings combined will cover over 20,000 sq.ft. and how much of the property will be asphalted is unknown.

If you have traveled south on Chestnut St. after a heavy rain you can already see the the sewer system cannot take the water presently trying to flow into the sewers. I have personally watched vehicles drive up on the sidewalk to get  past that area. I was assured that the water runs west from that property not east, I begged to differ but I have personally watched the water from that property flow to the east. The solution? A Detention pond west of the buildings that will only empty in the storm sewers after they can handle the flow? We have heard this before. Ask some North Ave. residents how that works, preferable while their cleaning their basements again.

Also as a Painesville resident I for one am getting tired of this Tiber Creek getting blamed for almost any flooding in Painesville. How long have we been hearing this song and dance?  Also I was told that there is a 36" pipe that runs under the  N/S tracks, [ which act almost like a dam] I am sure the residents on Chatfield will be happy to know that it has been cleaned out and another pipe the same size is/was planned there to. This plus the construction of the building east of Crossroads might make that area a permanent lake. Losing the YMCA heck it might just float out of  town.

It just seems like a lot of poor planning with some residents suffering the consequence's. The storm sewer pipes are full the water backs up on to Cedarbrook, Chatfield,Nelson St. and God knows where else?

Also during the discussion it became known that this storage facility is open 24/7 so one resident and two property owners complained about the noise including partys  at sometimes 3:00 AM in the morning? I'm just wondering if a storage facility located in a heavy residential area need to be open 24 hours a day? Who needs to retrieve their winter clothes at 3:00AM?
Oddly no one knew if any police reports had been filed.

The request was granted but the city engineer will have to sign off on the re/detention pond. Wonder what will happens to Joe Hada's beavers that live there?