"BUILD ME UP BABY" temptations

"Another Night of Monday Night Council Meeting" Andy only 10 left!

Well it was an normal council meeting  One Ordinance dealt with Compensation over union contracts and the rest were left on 1st or 2nd reading? Plus those five tabled legislations. Maybe Councilman DeLeone will get the answers to his questions as a Christmas present?

Now on Ordinance 3,4,5, All dealt with changing R1 frontage and lot size to be the same as R2 (multi-family) which for some unexplained reason is a smaller frontage and lot size then R1. No one expressed the reason for the change but my best guess is that there was fear the owner of the property  Windmill Estates would build multi-family housing. So the  Planning Commission in all their wisdom decides to change what a R1 designation just happens to be? Not only for Windmill Estates but for all of Painesville. When Painesville annexed the land the property was designated as R2 so... Instead of changing what is a R1 why not designate that area east of Heisley Park as R1? Haven't we learned anything? Anyone who might knows what's going on please chime in.

I don't believe the builder has any intention of building multi-family but only wanting to stuff as many homes into an area as they possibly can. I figure about 22% more housing and with that I wonder if they also will build as close to the CSX tracks as the developer at Heisley Park? (Hey Mr. Congressman what can we do with these choo-choo's?) Build me up baby! just to let me down, and throw in a row boat! Just think with the Planning Commissions ruling All homes in Windmill Estates could come standard with life preservers?

Now I only have one question if we all remember that property many years ago was part of the Mentor Marsh and those homes will be built on what was a lake. With gas brine  wells as well as gas storage on the property in the past. The question if you build those densely crowed homes where will the surface water go? Heisley Creek? Blackbrook Creek? Sump pumps running 24/7? How will this development affect Heisley Park residents. Mentor as well as Painesville Township residents as well?

Maybe it's time our council as well as the administration tells developers, builders what they can and can't do in Painesville , they do it to us all the time.  That includes not being able to change city ordinances and codes? Would it kill you to pretend you were Mentor or Concord for just a short time?

IN OTHER NEWS! Mr. McHugh from the electric department explained how with peak shaving and the plant being on 24 hour standby Painesville will enrich itself maybe 3.2 million dollars! Wow! but in your excitement don't expect your share of the 3.2 million in the form of a check in the mail.... It's all just on paper. adjustments and the sorts you know.

So my thinking is we keep staff at the plant to run the plant for two weeks a year and maybe firing it up for six hours usage maybe a few times a summer. More on the environmental impact of our electric plant coming soon. Ever wonder what the price of the clean-up on the site will cost?