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ATTENTION:  MONDAY AUGUST 22, 2016

THIS EVENING AT 6:00 PM AT CITY HALL THERE WILL BE A

TOWN HALL MEETING AT CITY HALL  BY COUNCILMAN DELEONE AND COUNCILWOMAN SHOOP WITH GUEST COUNTY COMMISSIONER JUDY MORAN.

AS ALWAYS IT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND IT APPEARS IN A SETTING SUCH AS THIS RESIDENTS VOICE CONCERNS IN NOT AN OFFICIAL SETTTING AS  IN A COUNCIL MEETING. THINGS SEEM TO BE HEARD


There's no escape from the music
in the whole damn street


Well it's a slow Thursday night ah, Zoning Meeting tonight. Wonder what's up?

First a couple wanted to add a sun room to the rear of their house to be built on the deck? Didn't know you had to have a permit to add a room? No, you never got a permit to even build the deck? Well you can't build the room on top of the deck.  your in violation of many codes including setbacks as well as structures are not allowed on decks. But if you teardown the deck you can have a 12' X 12' room addition. Will that work for you? Very accommodating bunch that will work with you.

As at most zoning meetings there is always at least one request from Entitlement Height ( Heisley Park)  Rarely a meeting goes by without a request for a shed, swimming pool, deck and even fences.
Last night was driveway night. Residents who want to expand their driveways from the sixteen feet they have now. To basically a three car wide driveway. See as families grow so do the number of vehicles. This along with only thirty feet of frontage makes for a short driveway. Along with a city ordinance that limits driveway's to forty feet of frontage creates a problem.

Plus the narrow streets in HP limits on street parking. Look I understand the need as well as understand giving the variance. What seems to me to be the problem is the R2 multi-family zoning that causes everything from driveways to sheds pools decks whatever. Just think all these issues could pretty much have been resolved with an R1 (75) zoning. But as attorney Lyons explained to me if the city would have held the builder to R1 maybe the people living there wouldn't be able to afford their homes? As the development never being built.

He is correct but who should the city look out for? The resident's who will live there or the builder who wants to shoehorn every last house into that development? Maybe potential buyers were looking for a larger lot size and bought elsewhere. Just think Mr. Lyons maybe a good eight out of ten request might have been avoided? Although I see HP as Liberty Greens a very nice neighborhoods sometimes it appears someone wants to put a size eight foot into a size six shoe?

I predict Painesville will never build another house as an R1 (75) again and for sure now that council has approved a R1 (60).

As well as a word to the wise never bring a host of pictures of nearby homes in HP that have done what you are requesting. See there's a good chance the city never approved of those additions and now they seem to show an interest in them. Most were probably accomplished by week-end warrior's!

Myself this mess should be turned over to the Planning Commission to sort out.