Jun 08, 2026 City Council

MEMBERS.

APOLOGIES OF COUNCIL AND GOOD EVENING.

UH, IN EARLY APRIL 21, ADULTS, UH, GOT TOGETHER FOR EIGHT WEEKS EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING TO SEE THE BEHIND THE SCENES WORK AND STRUCTURE AND INNOVATION OF THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE THEM EVERY DAY.

WE THOUGHT WE WOULD TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT THIS YEAR AND THEIR FINAL MEETING BEING WITH YOU.

SO A COUPLE OF THEM WOULD LIKE TO REPRESENT THE ENTIRE CLASS.

CHUCK SAMPSON AND MARTY.

MICAH, PLEASE COME UP AND STATE YOUR NAMES AND ADDRESS.

UH, GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT.

MY NAME IS CHUCK SAMPSON AND RESIDE IN, UH, WARD FOUR.

IT'S 6 7 7 3 6 7 7 3.

LLOYD LANE AND KATHY, WE'VE SPOKEN.

AND BEFORE I BEGIN, I'D LIKE ALL MY, UH, FELLOW ALUMNI TO KIND OF JUST RAISE THEIR HAND SO WE CAN SEE WHERE EVERYBODY'S AT THERE, BUT IT'S ALL THE GREEN SHIRTS .

SO AS, AS PROUD ALUMNI OF, UH, DUBLIN CITIZEN U, WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR OFFERING THIS PROGRAM.

WE'RE ALL ABLE TO LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES AND SEE HOW DUBLIN LIVES UP TO ITS MISSION STATEMENT IS TO PROVIDE THE BEST QUALITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT, WHICH, WHICH OUR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES CAN THRIVE AS RESIDENTS OF DUBLIN.

AS WE GO ABOUT OUR DAY, WE SEE THE WORKERS IN THE VEHICLES THAT SUPPORT THE CITY, BUT AT TIMES WE, WE DON'T REALIZE THE WORK, ALL THE WORK THAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES.

THE CITIZEN NEW PROGRAM ALLOWED US TO MEET WITH THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AND PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE CITY WORK.

EACH WEEK, WE CAME AWAY WITH A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE WORK INVOLVED.

WE WERE MOST IMPRESSED WITH THE PEOPLE.

EVERYONE WE MET WITH WAS EAGER TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE AND HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE THE CITY A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK.

IT SHOWED THEY ALL WERE PROUD AND ENJOY THE WORK THEY DO AND SUPPORT OF THE RESIDENTS OF DUBLIN.

AND SPEAKING WITH MY CLASSMATES, BECAUSE OF CI OF THE CITIZEN U PROGRAM, WE FEEL MORE CONNECTED TO THE, TO EACH OTHER, TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO THE CITY GOVERNMENT.

WE FEEL LIKE WE CAN BE AMBASSADORS FOR DUBLIN.

WE FEEL MORE EMPOWERED TO GET INVOLVED AND ENCOURAGE OTHER PEOPLE TO GET INVOLVED.

WORKING TOGETHER WITH OTHER RESIDENTS, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, AND THE CITY GOVERNMENT, WE CAN ALL ENSURE DUBLIN REMAINS THE TYPE OF CITY WE ARE.

ALL, ALL PROUD TO CALL OUR HOME.

GOOD EVENING, DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL STAFF AND GUESTS.

MY NAME IS MARTY MICAH.

I LIVE AT 6 0 6 5 HEATHER BLUFF DRIVE, AND I AM HONORED TO BE HERE.

AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE.

GOING THROUGH THIS JOURNEY WITH MY FELLOW CLASSMATES HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY INSPIRING.

WE HAVE DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.

WE COME FROM DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS WITH VARIED PERSPECTIVES, BUT WE ALL LEFT WITH A UNIFIED GOAL, WANTING TO BE MORE ACTIVE, INFORMED PARTICIPANTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.

THIS CLASS GAVE US THE TOOLS TO BE BETTER NEIGHBORS AND COMMUNITY ADV ADVOCATES TO OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

EACH WEDNESDAY WE MET, WE LEARNED SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS ABOUT OUR CITY FROM FINANCE, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, WHICH PLANNING IS INCREDIBLE WITH THE CITY, THE GROWTH THAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY.

WE LEARNED ABOUT MOBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION.

OUR DATA CENTER, THE BEST PART, ONE OF THE BEST PARTS WAS RIDING THE SCOTERS AND THE E-BIKES.

GRANTED IT WAS RAINING MOST OF OUR WEDNESDAYS.

WE HAD FUN AS A GROUP, AS FUN AS CLASSMATES AND EACH OPPORTUNITY, AND THEN WE ENDED WITH MAYOR'S COURT AND HOPEFULLY ONE DAY I WON'T HAVE TO BE THERE, NEITHER ONE OF US.

BUT IT WAS ENJOYABLE JUST TO SPEND TIME AND LISTENING TO THE DIFFERENT ADVOCATES AND DIFFERENT ADMINISTRATORS FROM EACH DEPARTMENT

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TO CITY COUNCIL.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US THE SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO THIS PROGRAM.

IT TAKES LEADERSHIP AND A TOTAL TEAM EFFORT TO KEEP OUR CITY AT THE TOP AS WELL AS KEEPING ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS INFORMED.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO CHRISTINE, OUR LEADER.

SHE KEPT US GOING EVERY WEEK.

SHE INSPIRED US WITH HER COMMUNICATIONS, HER EMAILS.

I THINK WE, I CUT DOWN A TREE JUST BY ALL THE PRINTOUTS YOU, YOU SENT US, BUT THANK YOU TO THE REST OF THE STAFF, MITCH, MAURA AND JEFF.

YOU GUYS HAD US GOING EVERY WEEK AND WE AS CLASSMATES APPRECIATED ALL YOUR INPUT AND CERTAINLY THANK YOU FOR THAT.

BECAUSE OF THIS CLASS, WE, WE LEAVE WITH A DEEPER APPRECIATION FOR THE HARD WORK THAT GOES INTO RUNNING THIS GREAT CITY TO THE ENTIRE WORKING STAFF OF DUBLIN.

WE HAVE A DEEPER APPRECIATION AND THANK YOU FOR INVESTING YOUR TIME IN ALLOWING US TO UNDERSTAND EACH LEVEL OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

WE WILL MISS OUR WEDNESDAYS WITH THE ENTIRE DUBLIN STAFF.

I LEAVE YOU WITH THIS THOUGHT.

WE HAVE LEARNED WE WANT TO SERVE AND WE WILL ENGAGE.

WELL, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE COMPLETED THE MCDANIEL CITIZEN UNIVERSITY, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, BUT UM, BACK IN SEPTEMBER OF 2022, OUR OUR OUTGOING CITY MANAGER, DANA MCDANIEL, UH, WAS RETIRING AND AS PART OF THAT RETIREMENT GIFT, WE NAMED CITIZEN UNIVERSITY AFTER HIM.

IT STARTED, UH, DURING HIS TENURE HERE.

SO HE, HE WAS A VETERAN AND HE ENLISTED IN 1981 AND HE RETIRED AS A BRIGADIER GENERAL.

UM, HE SERVED THIS CITY FOR 34 YEARS.

UM, CITIZEN U BEGAN IN 2015, UH, THE SAME YEAR THAT DANA BECAME OUR CITY MANAGER.

AND IT CERTAINLY WAS ONE OF HIS PASSION PROJECTS.

UM, HE FACILITATED THE INSTALLATION OF DUBLIN, OUR FIBER OPTIC NETWORK THAT REALLY HAS BEEN OUR ECONOMIC DRIVER, UM, RECEIVED A LOT OF AWARDS AND ACCOLADES.

SO WE ARE REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR TIME AND DEDICATION TO THE MCDANIEL CITIZEN U AND, UM, WE APPRECIATE THE LINEAGE THAT'S THERE AND ALL THAT YOU'VE LEARNED.

AND, UH, I KNOW THAT THE ENTIRETY OF THIS COUNCIL REALLY LOOKS FORWARD TO THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT YOU'LL CONTINUE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COMMUNITY.

BUT I DO KNOW WHAT, UH, WHAT A DEDICATION OF TIME IT IS.

AND FOR A COMMUNITY TO HAVE FOLKS LIKE YOU THAT WILL DEDICATE THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT YOU HAVE TO BECOME ENGAGED IN EDUCATED RESIDENTS IS REALLY SPECIAL TO US AND IT MEANS A GREAT DEAL.

SO ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US, WE GIVE YOU A VERY SINCERE AND HEARTFELT THANK YOU FOR BEING GRADUATES OF THE MCDANIEL CITIZEN UNIVERSITY.

OKAY, UP NEXT IN SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS, WE HAVE OUR FRANKLIN COUNTY AUDITOR FOR THE 2026 PROPERTY VALUES UPDATE AND PR KC THE GENERAL COUNSEL.

UH, YES, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO, ALTHOUGH YOU'RE WELCOME TO STAY, IT'S GONNA BE A WONDERFUL NIGHT.

HATE FOR YOU TO MISS IT, BUT IF, UH, CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND IF, IF YOU'D LIKE TO DEPART.

SO, MR. CASEY, IF YOU COULD STEP FORWARD, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING YOUR THOUGHTS.

UH, DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, UH, PR CASEY.

I AM THE GENERAL COUNSEL FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY AUDITOR MICHAEL STENZIANO.

I'M NOT THE AUDITOR.

I'M A JUSTICE COUNSEL.

UH, AND I'M ALSO DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF.

UH, I DO NOT LIVE IN DUBLIN.

DO YOU STILL WANT MY ADDRESS? YES, PLEASE.

UH, EVERYBODY CAN COME IN, TALK TO AN APPRAISER, HOPEFULLY BRING AS MUCH EVIDENCE AS THEY HAVE ON HAND TO, UH, TO THE SESSION TO TRY AND MAKE IT AS PRODUCTIVE AS POSSIBLE.

8 2 6 WERNER WAY, WORTHINGTON, OHIO 4 3 0 8 5.

IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE.

UM, AM I, ARE ARE YOU DOING THE SLIDES FOR ME? AM I DOING THE SLIDES? IT'S OKAY.

I SHOULD HAVE ASKED.

UH, WE'RE HERE.

I'M HERE BECAUSE IT IS A, UH, RE RE UH, REVALUATION YEAR BY CALENDAR.

UH, AS MANY OF YOU PROBABLY KNOW OR REMEMBER, THE FRANKLIN THE, THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE IN ALL THE COUNTIES IN OHIO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR VALUING ALL OF THE PROPERTY IN THE COUNTY ON A SIX YEAR BASIS.

SO EVERY SIX YEARS WE HAVE A REAPPRAISAL.

THE LAST REAPPRAISAL WAS IN 2023, BUT THEN EVERY THREE YEARS IN BETWEEN THE SIX YEARS, WE HAVE WHAT'S CALLED A PROPERTY UPDATE OR A TRIENNIAL UPDATE.

AND SO THIS IS THE THIRD YEAR AFTER

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THE REAPPRAISAL.

AND SO IT IS A PRO THANK YOU.

IT IS A PROPERTY, UH, UPDATE YEAR.

UM, WE ARE THANK YOU.

WE ARE, UH, REQUIRED TO DO PROPERTY UPDATES AND REAPPRAISALS BY LAW.

UH, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAS SET THE SIX YEAR CYCLE WITH THAT, WITH THE, UH, UPDATES EVERY THREE YEARS IN BETWEEN.

UM, AND THE GOAL IS TO, UH, ACCURATELY REFLECT, THANK YOU.

YEAH, I'LL SCREW IT UP.

UH, ACCURATELY REFLECT PROPERTY VALUE CHANGES IN THE CURRENT REAL ESTATE MARKETPLACE.

I THINK THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THOUGHT THAT MAYBE WAITING SIX YEARS WAS A LITTLE BIT TOO LONG.

THERE COULD BE TOO BIG OF, UH, A MOVEMENT, UH, DOWNWARDS OR UPWARDS.

AND SO THEY DECIDED TO KIND OF TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF THE PRESSURE OFF BY INSERTING THAT, THAT, UH, UPDATE EVERY TH THREE YEARS.

SO WHEN WE DO THESE PROJECTS, WE HAVE, UH, OUR APPRAISAL DEPARTMENT AND WE WORK WITH AN OUTSIDE MASS APPRAISAL VENDOR.

AND WE COME UP WITH THE VALUES FOR ALL PROPERTY IN THE COUNTY, AND THEN WE HAVE TO TURN IT INTO THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AS EVERY COUNTY DOES AND GET APPROVAL, WORK WITH THEM TO GET APPROVAL.

I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT OUR OFFICE JUST RECEIVED, UH, APPROVAL.

UM, FRIDAY.

WE WERE THE, I BELIEVE, THE FIRST COUNTY IN OUR CYCLE TO GET APPROVAL.

IT'S 'CAUSE WE'RE THAT GOOD.

UM, WHAT HAPPENS DURING THIS PROCESS? WELL, AGAIN, IN 23 WE HAD THE REAPPRAISAL.

AND THAT IS A MAJOR, MAJOR PROJECT.

EVERY SINGLE PROPERTY IN THE COUNTY IS VIEWED AND EVALUATED.

UH, FOR VALUE.

IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN AN UPDATE YEAR.

SO WE DON'T LOOK AT EVERY PROPERTY IN THE COUNTY.

INSTEAD, WE DO A DEEP DIVE INTO ARMS LENGTH SALES.

IT'S A, IT'S A, UH, SALES UPDATE.

SO WE'RE LOOKING TO SEE, BASED ON SALES IN THE COUNTY, DO WE NEED TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT UP OR DOWN IN VALUE.

UM, ARMS LENGTH SALES ARE DEFINED AS A BUSINESS DEAL BETWEEN TWO OR MORE PARTIES WHERE THE PARTIES ACT INDEPENDENTLY AND IN THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST, MEANING THE PROPERTY IS PRICED AT THE FAIR MARKET VALUE.

UH, AND THE EXAMPLE, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE OF WHAT A ARMS LENGTH SALE IS NOT, IS IF YOU BUY YOUR HOUSE OFF OF YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER OR SISTER, UH, FOR A DOLLAR.

THAT WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED AN ARM'S LENGTH SALE BECAUSE IT IS NOT ACTUAL MARKET VALUE.

AND THAT IS NOT THE TYPE OF SALE THAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT, UH, THIS YEAR FOR THE PROPERTY VALUE UPDATE.

SO THIS IS THE, UH, CALENDAR GOES BACK TO JANUARY.

WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE UPDATE, UH, WELL INTO 25 ACTUALLY, UH, SKIPPING TO WHERE WE ARE NOW.

MAY AND JUNE, WE JUST GOT APPROVAL, AS I MENTIONED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF TAX.

UM, AND WE ARE GETTING READY TO SEND OUT OUR TENTATIVE VALUES TO THE ENTIRE COUNTY.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY REMEMBERS, BUT WE SEND OUT A CARD, KIND OF A BIG POSTCARD.

UM, IT'S KIND OF ANIMATED STYLE.

UM, AND, UH, THAT SHOULD BE GOING OUT SOMETIME IN JUNE.

AND THAT WILL TELL EVERYBODY IN THE COUNTY WHAT YOUR NEW VALUE IS.

UM, THEN IN JULY AND SEPTEMBER, UH, IF ONCE EVERYBODY GETS THOSE VALUES, IF PEOPLE DO NOT AGREE WITH THE VALUE, WE MAKE A PRETTY LARGE EFFORT FROM JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER TO SET UP ALL AROUND THE COUNTY IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS, UH, FOR SEVERAL DAYS AT LOCATIONS AND MEET WITH THE PUBLIC, INVITE THE PUBLIC IN, HAVE THEM MEET WITH AN APPRAISER ON SITE, DISCUSS THE PROPERTY, WHY THEY THINK IT'S, UH, SHOULD BE VALUED DIFFERENTLY.

AND, UM, THEN A DECISION IS MADE.

NOW, IF, IF YOU DO NOT DISAGREE WITH YOUR VALUE, ONCE YOU GET YOUR TENTATIVE TO VALUE MAILER, THE PROCESS IS DONE.

UM, IF YOU DO DISAGREE WITH YOUR VALUE, YOU CAN COME TO ONE OF THESE SESSIONS AND THEN YOU WILL GET MAILED IN DECEMBER, A FINAL VALUE TELLING YOU WHETHER WE MADE AN ADJUSTMENT OR NOT.

AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE END OF THE PROCESS BECAUSE THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE DOES FOR, FOR CONSTITUENTS.

UH, BUT EVERYONE STILL HAS THE RIGHT BY LAW TO FILE A CASE WITH THE BOARD OF REVISION.

THE BOARD OF REVISION IS A, UH, PUBLIC BODY.

IT'S A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AUDITOR AND TREASURER.

AND IT IS THERE SPECIFICALLY TO HEAR VALUE COMPLAINTS.

SO PEOPLE CAN THEN, UH, GO ON TO THE, UH, BOARD OF REVISION IF THEY SO CHOOSE.

WHAT IS YOUR ROLE IN ESTABLISHING YOUR UPDATED PROPERTY VALUE? THIS SLIDE REALLY GOES TO THE, UH, PROPERTY VALUE, UH, UPDATE SESSIONS THAT I WAS JUST MENTIONING.

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I THINK WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND IS WE ARE MASS APPRAISERS.

UH, FRANKLIN COUNTY IS NOW APPROACHING 500,000 PARCELS ALL TOLD.

SO THAT'S WHY THESE PROJECTS ARE SO HUGE AND TAKE SO MUCH TIME.

UM, WE DO NOT MASS APPRAISERS DO NOT GET INSIDE THE HOUSE.

THOSE ARE FEE APPRAISERS.

IF YOU'RE SELLING YOUR HOUSE, YOU'RE GONNA GET A LOAN.

THE BANK WANTS A FEE APPRAISAL, THEY GO INSIDE YOUR HOUSE, THEY GO OUTSIDE THE HOUSE ALL AROUND.

WE LOOK AT THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE.

WE LOOK ABOVE THE HOUSE FROM, FROM THE AIR STREET LEVEL.

UM, AND OUR APPRAISAL YEAR WILL ACTUALLY WALK THE HOUSE.

UM, AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING AT SALES.

SO THAT'S MASS APPRAISAL.

AND UM, YOU KNOW, IF IT IT, THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE WE DON'T KNOW SOMETHING THAT'S GONE ON, ON INSIDE THE HOUSE.

'CAUSE AGAIN, WE DON'T GET IN.

SO AT ONE OF THESE REVIEW SESSIONS, WE ALWAYS SUGGEST IF YOU'VE HAD A KITCHEN, UPDATE, A BATHROOM, UPDATE A BEDROOM UPDATE, PUT IN A NEW PATIO, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, BRING THOSE PICTURES.

THAT'S EVIDENCE.

WE WANT TO SEE 'EM.

WE'RE NOT INFALLIBLE.

WE WANT TO GET THE VALUE RIGHT, UH, FOR THE PUBLIC.

SO HELP US HELP YOU.

IN OTHER WORDS.

UM, AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO AT OUR PROPERTY VALUE REVIEWS.

I THINK FOR DUBLIN, WE ARE GOING TO BE, LET ME LOOK DOWN HERE.

UM, I SHOULD HAVE CIRCLED THIS, UH, JOHANNA, I JUST SAW IT, UH, THERE, UH, DISCOVER CHRISTIAN CHURCH THURSDAY, AUGUST 6TH AND FRIDAY AUGUST 7TH FROM 11:00 AM TO 7:00 PM WHICH IS LOCATED AT 2,900 MARTIN ROAD, DUBLIN, OHIO.

SO THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM, RIGHT? UM, WILL THE PROPERTY VALUE CHANGE AFFECT YOUR TAXES? I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THE CLASSIC LAWYER RESPONSIVE, MAYBE, UH, COULD, COULD PROBABLY, UM, THE, WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TAXES.

WE DO VALUE.

BUT IT IS TRUE THAT VALUE IN THE STATE OF OHIO LEGALLY IS A, IS A, IS A FORMULA THAT CONTAINS YOUR VALUE.

SO THE FORMULA BY WHICH THE STATE OR THE COUNTY COMES UP WITH YOUR, WITH YOUR PROPERTY TAX IS 35% OF THE VALUE OF YOUR HOME, WHICH WE SET, RIGHT? SO 35% OF OUR VALUE, UH, MULTIPLIED TIMES THE LOCAL TAXING DISTRICT RATE.

LOCAL TAXING DISTRICT RATES ARE SET BY THINGS THAT ARE VOTED UPON LIKE LEVIES.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF DUBLIN THIS FALL HAD A SCHOOL LEVY, I HAVE NO IDEA IF DUBLIN DOES OR DOES NOT.

UM, THAT WOULD BE A NUMBER THAT WOULD GO UP ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EQUATION.

AND THEN ON OUR SIDE OF THE EQUATION, YOU WOULD HAVE VALUE GOING UP SOMEWHAT.

AND THOSE TWO NUMBERS MULTIPLIED TOGETHER EQUALS YOUR PROPERTY TAX.

SO IT'S A PART OF THE EQUATION.

THE POINT IS THE, UH, IT IS NOT, UH, VALUE TO TAX IS NOT A ONE TO ONE RATIO.

UH, SO IF YOUR VALUE GOES UP 5%, LET'S SAY YOUR VALUE GOES UP $20,000, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT IS NOT, THAT DOES NOT EQUATE TO A $20,000 TAX INCREASE, THANKFULLY.

UM, THE OTHER THING YOU'RE PROBABLY INTERESTED IN IS WHAT IS THE RATE THAT WE HAVE NOW PUT IN STONE FOR DUBLIN FOR THE PROPERTY VALUE? UH, PROJECT OF DUBLIN IS SCHEDULED TO INCREASE.

UH, RESIDENTIAL VALUES ARE GOING UP, UH, 10%.

UH, COUNTY THAT IS IN LINE WITH THE COUNTY, UH, AVERAGE, WHICH IS ALSO 10%.

UH, IF YOU TAKE ALL PROPERTY CLASSES IN DUBLIN, THE INCREASE IS 9%.

SO JUST TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, WE, MY OFFICE CAME, I MIGHT HAVE COME, UH, IN 2023 BEFORE YOU TO DO THE SAME THING BEFORE THE REAPPRAISAL GIVE YOU THE LAY OF THE LAND.

UH, SO YOU CAN BE HELPFUL TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS WITH THIS INFORMATION.

AND, UH, THE NEWS WAS MUCH WORSE.

WE CALLED 2023.

THE PERFECT STORM, UM, VALUES ON THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE IN 2023 FOR THE COUNTY ON AVERAGE WENT UP 41%.

IT WAS, UH, IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED.

UM, AND WE HOPED TO NEVER SEE INCREASES LIKE THAT AGAIN.

THERE WERE, WE CALL IT THE PERFECT STORM 'CAUSE THERE WERE SEVERAL DIFFERENT FACTORS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY COMPOUNDING TO, UH, TO ESTABLISH THAT, THAT, UM, THAT INCREASE.

WE HAD OUTDATED LAWS, WE HAD, UH, OUT OF TOWN OUTTA STATE IN MANY CASES, OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY.

WE HAD,

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UM, UH, INCREDIBLE, UH, INFLATION OF HOME PRICES.

I MEAN, PART OF THE ISSUE IS THAT FRANKLIN COUNTY REMAINS ONE OF THE HOTTEST REAL ESTATE MARKETS IN THE COUNTRY, IS RATED BY MANY DIFFERENT PUBLICATIONS FOR MANY YEARS NOW.

SO IT'S A VERY POPULAR PLACE TO LIVE.

AND THEN WE HAD ALL THESE OTHER FACTORS WITH THAT, THAT WERE DRIVING UP, UH, VALUE.

SO, UM, A 10% INCREASE IS NOT NOTHING, BUT, UH, IN COMPARISON TO 23, UM, UH, MUCH MORE PALATABLE.

UM, THAT, UH, LAST SLIDE THERE.

WELL, SECOND TO LAST SLIDE IS ALL THE INFORMATION THAT ANYBODY IN THE ROOM OR ANYBODY ON COUNCIL WOULD NEED, UM, TO GIVE TO A CONSTITUENT IF THEY'RE HAVING ANY ISSUES OR IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

AND THEN FINALLY, UM, OUR KNOW, YOUR HOME VALUE WEBSITE ACTUALLY LAUNCHES TOMORROW.

UH, THAT IS A WEBSITE THAT'S LINKED THROUGH THE MAIN AUDITOR'S WEBSITE THAT HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE, UM, THE REAPPRAISAL PROJECT LISTED THERE.

UH, FOR INSTANCE, PEOPLE CAN WAIT UNTIL THEY GET THE CARD IN THE MAIL THAT TELLS THEM THEIR INDIVIDUAL VALUE, BUT AS OF TOMORROW, ANYBODY IN THE COUNTY CAN ACTUALLY GO TO THE WEBSITE AND JUST LOOK UP THEIR PROPERTY AND FIND OUT THAT WAY, UH, AS QUICKLY AS TOMORROW.

THE OTHER, IT HAS A LOT OF COOL BELLS AND WHISTLES.

ONE OF THE THINGS I REALLY LIKE ON THE WEBSITE IS THAT YOU CAN LOOK UP YOUR PROPERTY AND YOU CAN LOOK IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND SEE ALL THE HOMES THAT HAVE SOLD FOR WHAT PRICE IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, WHICH IS REALLY GIVES YOU AN INSIGHT INTO OUR PROCESS, UH, AND HOW WE, HOW WE SET VALUES.

SO I SUGGEST EVERYBODY, UH, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE KNOW YOUR HOME VALUE WEBSITE AS OF TOMORROW.

DON'T GO TODAY.

IT'S NOT UP YET.

UH, TOMORROW'S THE DAY.

UM, AND I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR INVITING US IN.

UH, AND I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS IF ANYBODY HAS ANY.

WELL, VERY GOOD.

WE THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THE INFORMATION AND, UM, I, I KNOW THAT WE WILL CERTAINLY, UH, BE HELPFUL IN PUSHING THAT OUT TO RESIDENTS SHOULD THEY HAVE QUESTIONS OF, OF WHERE THEY CAN GO TO GET ANSWERS.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

CITIZEN COMMENTS PORTION OF OUR AGENDA.

HAVE A GREAT EVENING.

OKAY, THIS BRINGS US TO THE

[CITIZEN COMMENTS ]

THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO COMMENT ON ANY TOPIC THAT IS NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA.

AS A REMINDER, WE ASK THAT YOU PLEASE SIGN IN AT THE KIOSK OUT FRONT AS YOU ENTERED.

UH, IF YOU WERE UNABLE TO DO SO WHEN YOU CAME IN, WE WILL RECOGNIZE YOU, UH, NEAR THE END.

SO DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED IN TO SPEAK THIS EVENING? GOOD EVENING.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL ANGELA GRIFFIN SIGNED IN FOR A COMMENT ON ORDINANCE ZERO SIX DASH 25, WHICH IS NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA.

GOOD EVENING, ANGELA GRIFFIN.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD AND SHARE WITH US YOUR THOUGHTS.

5 5 5 9 CONVA LANE AND ANDRE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME THIS EVENING.

I HAVE THREE ITEMS I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS.

FIRST, MY MOST PRESSING CONCERN IS ORDINANCE 6 25, THE ZONING OF THE LAND WEST OF THE RAILROAD IN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT.

MUCH OF THE PROPERTY IS CLOSER TO MY HOME AND MANY OTHER RESIDENCES IN ENTRE, THEN PARCELS EAST OF THE TRACK, WHICH ARE TO BE NEWLY ZONED AS ID SIX.

THE WESTERN PORTION IS JUST A FEW TENTHS OF A MILE FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND ADJACENT TO MANY FAMILIES ALONG CHAR ROAD WHO DESERVE FAR BETTER.

IT ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT BE ZONED DIFFERENTLY.

IT APPEARS THIS WAS A CALCULATED MOVE.

MY NEIGHBORS WARNED ME THAT THAT WOULD BE THE CASE AND I DIDN'T WANNA BELIEVE THEM, FRANKLY.

IT'S DISAPPOINTING AND IT COMPLETELY MISSES THE POINT.

WE WANT A SAFE COMMUNITY ALLOWING THE PROPERTY WEST OF THE TRACKS TO BE ZONED ID TWO OR ID THREE IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

SECOND, I DO WANNA SAY, UH, SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THE REMOVAL OF DATA CENTERS FROM THE WOOD.

WE ARE DEFINITELY RELIEVED.

THE LAST TIME I SPOKE HERE, I ASKED YOU TO CONSIDER A MORATORIUM FOR ALL OF DUBLIN.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE IS STILL ONE ZONING TYPE TECHNOLOGY FLEX THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR DATA CENTER IN DUBLIN.

PLEASE RECONSIDER PERMITTING THEM ANYWHERE.

THESE ARE IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO OUR GREEN SUSTAINABILITY GOALS.

LASTLY, THERE HAS BEEN SOME GOOD PROGRESS WITH THE NEW CODE LANGUAGE FOR ID SIX.

HOWEVER, THE CODE STILL IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY WRITTEN TO ELIMINATE ALL POTENTIAL HAZARDS.

FOR THIS REASON, I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE THE ZONING ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ALONG WITH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AS CONDITIONAL USES.

THIS WOULD ALLOW PLANNING AND ZONING TO HAVE A CHANCE TO BETTER ASSESS POSSIBLE FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS.

THIS ADDED LAYER OF SCRUTINY WOULD GO A LONG WAY IN PUTTING OUR MINDS AT EASE.

THE TRUTH IS WE CANNOT PREDICT THE FUTURE.

I DOUBT ANYONE COULD HAVE REALIZED THE HAZARDS OF THE DATA CENTER NEAR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

BUT AS WE HAVE ALL LEARNED, THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT POLLUTANTS,

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INCLUDING DIESEL GENERATORS THAT ARE ALREADY IMPACTING NEARBY CITIZENS.

WE DO NOT HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL.

SO USING CONDITIONAL ZONING FOR THE POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS USES GIVES YOU THE POWER TO GUARANTEE OUR SAFETY.

IN SUMMARY, PLEASE ZONE ALL LAND EAST AND WEST OF THE TRACKS AS ID SIX.

ENSURE THERE ARE NO MORE DATA CENTERS ANYWHERE IN DUBLIN AND USE CONDITIONAL ZONING AS A WAY TO ADD SAFEGUARDS THAT WOULD PROTECT US, THE RESIDENTS MOST IMPACTED BY THIS ENVISION DUBLIN.

DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE, LINDSEY? OKAY.

IS THERE ANYONE ELSE PRESENT THAT WANTED TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT IS NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA? PLEASE COME FORWARD.

STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

UH, NAME IS TODD HEMMER.

5 8 2 4 HOCHER ROAD.

I GAVE THE CLERK, UH, PAT PAMPHLET OF INFORMATION I'D LIKE TO GO THROUGH A LITTLE BIT.

SO THERE'S A HUNDRED ACRES OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ON HOOGE ROAD AND THE VISION DUBLIN PLAN KIND OF IGNORED THAT THESE RESIDENTS, THIS COMMUNITY EXISTED.

SO IT KIND OF BASICALLY SACRIFICED US FOR THE BETTER.

GOOD.

AND IT WAS REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY THIS LAND'S BEING REASSIGNED WHEN IT'S ALREADY IN USE.

SO IT WAS A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THAT.

THE SECOND PAGE WAS ABOUT A MEMO THAT WAS ISSUED IN JANUARY THAT WAS VERY CLEARLY WRITTEN, THAT THE REZONING WAS OF THE 370 ACRES WAS GONNA BE ONLY ATTACKED OR ONLY APPROXIMATELY 144 ACRES FOCUSED ON THE FIVE PARCELS BY COS GRAY.

AND THAT LATER THE AREA ON CHAR ROAD WOULD BE RE-LOOKED AT AND REZONED.

EFFECTIVELY.

THIS CUT US OUT OF THE PROCESS, THE DUE PROCESS.

AND IN THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMITTEE AREA, THEY SAID IT WAS OUTTA SCOPE.

SO WE COULD NOT EVEN APPROACH, UH, THE IDEA OF ID SIX BEING APPLIED TO HO ROAD.

SO THIS WAS VERY DISAPPOINTING, IT WAS VERY MISLEADING AND WE MISUNDERSTOOD THE COMMUNICATION OVERALL TO THE RESIDENTS.

PAGE NUMBER THREE KIND OF SHOWS A LOT OF THE CONCERNS.

YOU KNOW, I SPENT, UH, MADE 80 PAGE DOCUMENT.

I THINK YOU WERE THERE, MR. GROOMS. UM, AND WE EXPLAINED ALL THE CONCERNS WE HAD WITH ID THREE AND YOU SOME THINGS HAVE BEEN IMPROVED WITH ID SIX.

SO THE OVERALL HEIGHT OF THE BUILDINGS, THE EMISSIONS, UH, SMOKE STACKS, THE RUNOFFS, THE FLEET VEHICLE CONTROLS, ALL ON PAGE FOUR, SHOW THAT YOU'VE MADE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE ALSO FEEL THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO HOOED ROAD.

AND ACTUALLY WITH THE WELL WATER, WE ARE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE OVERALL RUNOFF AND CONCERNS THAN THEY ARE ON BALANCE RATE BEING ON CITY WATER.

THE IMPROVEMENTS ARE THE BUILDING HEIGHTS WILL HOPEFULLY REDUCE THE IMPACT THE RESIDENTS.

UH, SMOKE STACKS ARE BEING ELIMINATED.

THE FLEET CONTROL OF VEHICLES, STORAGE OF OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT IS BETTER.

UM, THE NOISE POLLUTION IS A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

CONTROL LIGHTING CONTROL, UH, DATA, THE, THE ELIMINATION OF, UH, WAREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION IS PHENOMENAL.

UH, GETTING RID OF SEMI-TRUCK AND SUCH LIKE THAT.

SO ALL THESE THINGS ARE IMPROVEMENT.

SO IT'S REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S NOT BEING CONSIDERED FOR THE HOARD ROAD RESIDENCE.

THE FINAL PAGE ON PAGE FIVE SHOWS THE CURRENT ZONING PLAN.

IT'S VERY STRANGE THAT THE END OF HOARD ROAD ON RINGS ROAD, NOW THERE'S GONNA BE A LARGE COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE RIGHT ACROSS FROM ID TWO.

SO ESSENTIALLY WITH BALL TRAY, HO ROAD AND NOW RINGS ROAD ALL BEING RESIDENTIAL, IT REALLY PAINS ME TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE DID NOT DOING RESIDENTIAL IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, IN THIS OVERALL AREA, BUT AT LEAST AT MINIMUM, ID SIX SHOULD BE CONSIDERED.

UM, HOORA ROAD MATTERS.

WE'VE BEEN THERE.

I ASKED QUESTIONS TO STAFF GOING, YOU KNOW, WHY WHETHER WE, UM, BASICALLY NOT INCLUDED IN THE VISION PLAN.

WHY NOT JUST NOT INCLUDE BALANCE TRAY, MAKE THAT INDUSTRIAL? BUT THAT WAS, UH, THE ANSWER WAS VERY STRANGE.

LIKE, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT WAS THE BALANCE TRAY'S AN ESTABLISHED, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD.

SO FINALLY TO HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE FROM HO ROAD, PLEASE STAND UP, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT SANCTIONS OF 47 PEOPLE THAT WE WANT AROUND THIS WEEKEND TALKING TO.

AND OVERALL, ALL THESE PEOPLE ASK ME, WHY ARE WE, WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS? WHY NOT RESIDENTIAL? I COULDN'T GIVE 'EM AN ANSWER, A STRAIGHT ANSWER.

IT WAS BASICALLY FOR PROFIT.

I HAD TO TELL 'EM IT'S FOR PROFIT OVER PEOPLE.

SO I URGE YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE, NOT THE PROFIT.

ISSUES, BUT HAVE HAD NO SUCCESS EXCEPT FOR THE WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP MEETING LAST YEAR, TO WHICH NO RETURN, UM, DIALOGUE WAS RECEIVED.

ANY OTHERS ON AN ITEM? NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA.

UH, GOOD EVENING.

LET'S SEE.

AM I ON? YEP.

UH, MY NAME IS RICHARD WEEKS, UH, 5 8 2 6 HOOCH ROAD.

UH, FOR A YEAR AND A HALF, THE RESIDENTS OF HOCHI ROAD HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THE THREAT OF REZONING, THE AREAS NEAR US TO ID THREE.

THE COUNCIL HAS WORKED EXTENSIVELY WITH THE RESIDENTS OF ENTRE TO IMPROVE THEIR ID THREE TO THE ID SIX, AND I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHAT THAT IS.

IN THE MEANTIME, UH, HOOCHIE RESIDENTS HAVE REQUESTED MEETINGS TO DISCUSS OUR

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WE REALIZED RECENTLY THAT NO CHANGES WE'RE BEING CONSIDERED FOR OUR AREA AND WE ARE LEFT WITHOUT.

OUR WORLD HAS CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.

UH, THOSE THAT HAVE POWER MAKE THE RULES AND THOSE WITHOUT MUST FOLLOW.

IT IS CLEAR THAT THE COUNCIL HAS THE POWER AND YOUR DECISIONS WILL BE FINAL.

THEREFORE, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, WE IMPLORE YOU TO CONSIDER ID SIX THE AREAS AROUND THE HOCHI ROAD RESIDENCE.

ANYONE ELSE ON AN ITEM? NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA.

SO LET'S MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION AND STEP BACK AND LOOK AT EVERYONE AS INCLUDED IN DUBLIN AND THE COMMUNITY TO BE THE BEST IT CAN BE, SO THAT YOU'RE PROUD OF THE LEGACY THAT YOU HAVE.

UH, MY NAME IS LAUREN WEEKS.

I LIVE AT 58 26 HUTCHER ROAD, DUBLIN.

IT'S KIND OF IRONIC AND, UH, THAT MY ADDRESS IS DUBLIN.

AND DUBLIN IS BUYING LAND ALL AROUND OUR HOARD ROAD.

UM, BUT WE'RE NOT DUBLIN RESIDENTS, BUT WE'RE IN THE THICK OF THINGS.

WE'RE ID THREE.

AND A LOT OF THINGS CAN COME IN THAT CAN BE VERY HARMFUL TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

UM, OVER THE TIME, UM, WHEN WE GOT REZONING NOTIFICATION BACK IN FEBRUARY OF LAST YEAR, WE WERE REALLY UPSET BY IT.

AND WE WANTED TO NOTIFY EVERYONE IN THE AREA AND BE A COMMUNITY CER, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY EVENT THAT WE GOT TOGETHER TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT WHAT THE IMPLICATION MEANS FOR ALL OF US LIVING THERE.

WE NOTIFIED BALANCE TRAY, OBVIOUSLY THROUGH THE, THE FLYERS.

THEY WERE UPSET BY THAT.

AND OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF, THEY'VE HAD MEETINGS WITH THE COUNCIL AND WITH ZONING.

BUT WHEN WE'VE TRIED, I KNOW TODD HEIT AND, UH, MATT CONLEY AND MY HUSBAND RICK WEEKS HAVE TRIED TO GET MEETINGS SO THAT WE CAN DISCUSS OUR CONCERNS WITH YOU.

UM, I'VE LIVED IN, IN DUBLIN FOR 30 YEARS OFF DUBLIN ROAD FOR 10 YEARS.

BALL TRA FOR 10 YEARS.

WONDERFUL COMMUNITY.

IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

AND THEN WE MOVED TO BE IN THE COUNTRY ON HOCHER AND WE'VE LIVED THERE FOR 10 YEARS.

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, IF YOU'VE EVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DRIVE DOWN OUR STREET, IT'S BEAUTIFUL WITH, WITH WOODS AND, AND UH, PONDS AND LAKES AND ANIMALS AND NO LIGHTING AND NOT A LOT OF NOISE OTHER THAN OUR TRAIN, WHICH WE LOVE.

BUT IT'S A WONDERFUL COMMUNITY THAT WHEN YOU BRING IN, YOU KNOW, ID THREE, IT'S GONNA DESTROY THAT.

AND THE SPECTRUM OF WHAT YOU COULD BRING IN IS HORRIFYING.

AND I'M JUST, I WAS SO UPSET THAT WE WENT TO THE WASHINGTON ME MEETING TOM, HE, I MEAN TOM, SORRY, TODD HEMET GAVE A PRESENTATION AND THAT PRESENTATION REALLY WAS DETAILED IN THE REZONING OPTIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF ID THREE.

AND I WAS HOPING THAT WOULD MAKE AN IMPACT ON ALL OF YOU WHEN YOU READ THAT.

'CAUSE IT WAS PRETTY DETAILED ON WHAT IT MEANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

AND THEN RECENTLY, AS TODD MENTIONED, THE REZONING OF THE 300 AND, UH, 70 ACRES DOWN TO THE 1 44 ON COS GRAY, YOU HAVE SENSITIVE ZONING PRACTICES THAT ARE TARGETED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PROTECTIONS TO EXISTING DEVELOPMENTS.

WELL, THAT WAS TARGETED AT BALANCE TRAY.

NOT AT US.

YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WE DON'T LIVE IN DUBLIN, BUT THIS, THIS CITY IS GROWING AND YOU WANNA DO THE RIGHT BY EVERYONE AND RIGHT BY YOUR CITY, YOUR LEGACY, THE IMAGE OF DUBLIN.

YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT WHEN YOU, YOU KNOW, PARE IT DOWN TO ID SIX FROM ID THREE, YOU PROBABLY HAVE LEFT OPPORTUNITIES OF PERSPECTIVE BUYERS AND BUILDERS.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, DON'T YOU WANNA HAVE ONES THAT ARE, THAT MAKE OUR CITY BETTER? I MEAN, IF YOU MAKE PARAMETERS AND THEY HIT THE PARAMETERS AND THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING YOU DON'T LIKE, LIKE THE DATA CENTERS, IF YOU LOOK AT IT, OTHER STATES ARE SUING DATA CENTERS BECAUSE OF THE PHYSICAL POTENTIAL, PHYSICAL HEALTH ISSUES.

SO I'M JUST ALSO LIKE EVERYONE ELSE I'M EMPLOYING TO THINK ABOUT THIS AND, AND VISIT US AND LOOK AT OUR SMALL COMMUNITY.

WE'RE NOT VERY BIG, BUT WE SHOULD MATTER.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE THINK BALANCE TRADE MATTERS.

WE THINK ALL OF DUBLIN MATTERS.

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL CITY AND FOR 30 YEARS WE'VE BEEN SO PROUD OF THE WAY IT'S GROWN AND PROUD OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT'S MADE THOSE DECISIONS.

WE WANT YOU GUYS TO MAKE THE SAME DECISIONS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE, NOT JUST BECAUSE WHAT IMPACTS US ON HOOED, WHETHER IT BE, UH, INDUSTRIAL AND BRINGING IN DRUGS AND CRIME, YOU KNOW, BALANCER'S, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN A MILE AND A HALF FROM US.

IT'S NOT GONNA BE ISOLATED TO THE STREET.

IT'S GONNA AFFECT ALL OF DUBLIN.

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WE'RE ASKING FOR POCHARD ROAD AREA B, UH, ID SIX INSTEAD OF ID THREE.

I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK, I BELIEVE THERE MIGHT BE SOME CONFLICTION.

UM, SO THE ORDINANCE 33 DASH 26 IS ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA.

UM, BUT WHAT WE ARE TAKING PUBLIC COMMENT NOW ON IS ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA.

SO IS THERE COMMENT ON THINGS THAT ARE NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA? IF YOU COULD PLEASE, UH, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

OH, IT WAS ON, THERE YOU GO.

AMY SWANK 5 9 4 5 VAND LER PLACE.

I JUST WANNA CLARIFY, MAYOR, THAT INDIVIDUALS TONIGHT MIGHT BE SPEAKING ON REZONING UNDER ORDINANCE 0 6 25 AND THEY WILL SHARE THOSE COMMENTS NOW, INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SPEAKING ON THE CODE AMENDMENTS UNDER 33 26, WE'LL RESERVE THOSE COMMENTS FOR THE APPROPRIATE TIME OF THE AGENDA.

THIS WILL BRING US TO THE CONSENT AGENDA PORTION, UH, OF OUR AGENDA.

UM, ANYTHING, ANYONE ELSE ON ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA? OKAY, VERY GOOD.

[CONSENT AGENDA ]

IS THERE A REQUEST TO REMOVE THE ONE ITEM FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA OF THE MAY 26TH, 2026 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING? HEARING NONE, I'LL MAKE AN MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.

IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND, JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE VICE MAYOR DEROSA? YES.

TO THE SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF OUR AGENDA, ORDINANCES.

MAYOR AROSE GRS? YES.

[Ordinance 29-26 ]

ORDINANCE 29 DASH 26 AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 1 5 3 0.02 AND 1 5 3 0.172.

AND ADDING CHAPTER 1 23 TO THE DUBLIN CODIFIED ORDINANCE TO ADDRESS FOOD TRUCK OPERATIONS.

OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE BROUGHT FORWARD THIS EVENING BY KENDALL BLAKE, WELCOME.

GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

THERE HAVE BEEN NO CHANGES SINCE THE FIRST READING AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO MAKE COMMENT RELATIVE TO THIS ORDINANCE? YES, ZACH JAMES HAS SIGNED IN.

RECOGNIZE ANNUAL COLUMBUS MFE SAFETY INSPECTIONS.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

ZACH JAMES.

1 3 4 8 EAST WEBER.

IT'S COLUMBUS, HOPEFUL FUTURE DUBLIN RESIDENT.

UH, I SERVE AS PRESIDENT OF THE CENTRAL OHIO FOOD TRUCK ASSOCIATION REPRESENTING MORE THAN 150 MOBILE FOOD BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT CENTRAL OHIO, INCLUDING MANY OPERATORS WHO CURRENTLY SERVE RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS HERE IN DUBLIN.

FIRST, I WANT TO THANK COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF FOR THE TIME AND EFFORT THAT HAS GONE INTO TO DEVELOPING THIS PILOT PROGRAM.

WE APPRECIATE THE WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE WITH OUR INDUSTRY AND RECOGNIZE DUBLIN'S EFFORT TO BALANCE PUBLIC SAFETY, NEIGHBORHOOD COMPATIBILITY, COMPATIBILITY, AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.

AND IT'S WORTH NOTING, UM, THAT THIS DISCUSSION WERE TAKING PLACE IN, UH, THE OFF SEASON.

I'M CERTAIN THERE WOULD BE MORE FOOD TRUCK OPERATORS HERE TO SPEAK OUT.

UH, TONIGHT'S VOTE COMES DURING THE PEAK OF FOOD TRUCK SEASON, UH, WHEN MANY OWNERS ARE ACTIVELY OPERATING THEIR BUSINESSES.

UH, KAFTA SUPPORTS DUBLIN'S GOAL OF CREATING A PATHWAY FOR FOOD TRUCKS TO OPERATE LEGALLY AND RESPONSIBLY WITHIN THE CITY.

FOOD TRUCKS ARE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT BRING CONVENIENCE, VIBRANCY, AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY WHILE PROVIDING AN ADDITIONAL DINING OPTION TO THE COMMUNITY.

WHILE WE APPRECIATE THE PROGRESS REPRESENTED BY THIS PILOT PROGRAM, KAFTA CONTINUES TO HAVE TWO CONCERNS THAT WE HOPE COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER AS IMPLEMENTATION MOVES FORWARD.

THE FIRST IS FIRE INSPECTION.

RECIPROCITY.

EVERY CTA MEMBER ALREADY UNDERGOES ANNUAL FIRE SAFETY INSPECTIONS AND PROPANE SYSTEM TESTING THROUGH JURISDICTIONS SUCH AS COLUMBUS HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

RECIPROCITY ALREADY EXISTS ACROSS, UH, JURISDICTIONS, AND WE BELIEVE A SIMILAR APPROACH FOR FIRE INSPECTIONS WOULD REDUCE UNNECESSARY DUPLICATION WHILE MAINTAINING THE SAME LEVEL OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

MANY COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING HILLIARD AND UPPER ARLINGTON, ALREADY

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THESE COMMUNITIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT RECIPROCITY CAN MAINTAIN STRONG SAFETY STANDARDS WHILE REDUCING ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS ON SMALL BUSINESSES.

OUR SECOND CONCERN IS THE REQUIREMENT OF A FULL DUBLIN LICENSE.

FOR OPERATORS WHO MAY ONLY SERVE A SINGLE PRIVATE EVENT OR A HANDFUL OF TIMES WITHIN A YEAR, ADDITIONAL ANNUAL LICENSING REQUIREMENTS CAN BECOME A SIGNIFICANT BARRIER FOR SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ALREADY LICENSED AND INSPECTED ELSEWHERE.

A FOOD TRUCK SERVING A SINGLE GRAD PARTY, AN EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION EVENT OR OTHER PRIVATE GATHERING SHOULD NOT FACE THE SAME REGULATORY BURDENS AS BUSINESSES OPERATING WITHIN THE CITY ON A REGULAR BASIS.

WE ENCOURAGE THE CITY TO CONSIDER STREAMLINED OPTIONS FOR INFREQUENT OPERATORS WHILE MAINTAINING APPROPRIATE ACCOUNTABILITY.

I WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT OUR GOAL IS NOT LESS REGULATION OR MEMBERS SUPPORT REASONABLE HEALTH, FIRE AND SAFETY STANDARDS.

WE SIMPLY HOPE TO SEE REGULATIONS STRUCTURED IN A WAY THAT RECOGNIZES THE REALITIES FACING SMALL BUSINESSES WHILE STILL ACHIEVING THE CITY'S PUBLIC SAFETY OBJECTIVES.

WE APPRECIATE DUBLIN'S WILLINGNESS TO CREATE NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO, FOR MOBILE FOOD VENDORS AND LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH CITY STAFF AND COUNCIL AS THE PROGRAM MOVES FORWARD.

ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS? DISCUSSION? I HAVE A COMMENT, ACTUALLY A QUESTION FOR KENDALL THEN.

UM, ON THE LAST, UH, HE HAD THE TWO ITEMS. ON THE SECOND ONE IT WAS ABOUT THE PERMITS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.

WE AREN'T, I THOUGHT WE AREN'T REQUIRING IF IT, IF IT'S ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, THEY DON'T NEED WE ARE, WE ARE REQUIRING THEM ON PRIVATE PROPERTY EVEN IF THEY ARE ONLY SERVING A PRIVATE, UM, THEIR GUESTS LIKE THEY OH, THE EXAMPLE OF A GRAD PARTY.

I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND COUNSEL THAT DURING THE PILOT PERIOD, UH, THE LICENSING ASPECT IS NOT INTO EFFECT UNTIL MARCH OF NEXT YEAR.

AND AS YOU RECALL AT THE LAST MEETING, WE WILL BE COMING BACK IN JANUARY WITH A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE LEARNED AND SOME OF THESE ITEMS THAT WE'VE ALREADY HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH, UH, KAFTA ON, UH, WE PLAN TO VET OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS TO BRING BACK TO COUNCIL.

IF WE WERE TO SUGGEST THEN RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE CODE, WE'D HAVE TIME BEFORE THE LICENSING PIECE GOES INTO EFFECT.

I, I COULDN'T REMEMBER IF WE, IF, UM, THE PRIVATE PROPERTY, BUT I, I THINK THAT IS A GOOD IDEA TO, UM, KEEP TRACK OF HOW OFTEN THE SAME FOOD TRUCKS ARE APPEARING.

UM, IF THERE IS A CASE WHERE, YEAH, DURING GRAD SEASON OR, OR SOMETHING.

WE HAVE A WHOLE HOST OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE ONLY BEEN HERE ONCE.

UM, I THINK MAYBE WE MIGHT, THERE MIGHT BE SOME TYPE OF EXCEPTION.

MAYBE THEY REGISTER AND TELL US THEY'RE HERE FOR THAT ONE TIME SO WE CAN KEEP TRACK.

SO THEY TRULY WERE ONLY HERE ONCE OR TWICE OR WHATEVER THAT LIMIT IS.

UM, BUT I KEEP DATE ON THAT.

I THINK THAT'S GOOD.

AND THEN AS FAR AS THE, UM, FIRE, THE RECIPROCITY, I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION TO TALK TO WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND SEE IF THEY'D BE WILLING TO DO THAT.

OTHERS? NO.

UM, JUST REAL QUICK, OH, SORRY.

UM, THE INSPECTIONS ARE GOING TO BE REQUIRED THOUGH DURING THE PILOT PHASE.

SO DURING THE PILOT PHASE, WE ARE NOT REQUIRING THE LICENSING PIECE AT ALL.

SO WE ARE GOING TO ASK TO SEE THEIR EXAMPLE OF THEIR LICENSE THAT THEY'VE RECEIVED ELSEWHERE.

UM, JUST SO THAT WE HAVE SOME ASSURANCE THAT THEIR FOOD SAFETY REQUIREMENTS ARE BEING MET HERE.

UM, BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO REQUIRE THEM TO GO TO WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, GET THE INSPECTION AND THEN BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE.

ORDINANCE 30 DASH 26 ADOPTING AND ENACTING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN, OHIO.

THANK YOU KENDALL.

OTHERS? NO, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE, WE RUN THESE PILOTS SO THAT WE LEARN THINGS AND I THINK THAT WE WILL LEARN A LOT THROUGH THE COURSE OF THIS.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE ARE START DOING SOME OF THESE INSPECTIONS AND WE FEEL THAT THEY'VE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED ALL OF THE GOALS, UM, IN, YOU KNOW, COUNTYWIDE OR WHATEVER OTHER INSPECTION PERIODS THEY MAY BE, IT CERTAINLY WOULD BE A TIME FOR US TO REEVALUATE THAT.

SO, UM, WE WILL, WE WILL LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, FUTURE FEEDBACK ON HOW THAT PROJECT IS, IS MOVING AHEAD.

SO IF THERE'S NOTHING FURTHER THEN UH, JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MS. CRAM? YES.

[Ordinance 30-26 ]

I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO POSTPONE THE SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING TO THE JUNE, 2026, ME.

22ND OF 2026.

MEETING.

IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL A ROLE MAYOR AROSE GROOMS? YES.

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ORDINANCE 31 DASH 26 ADOPTING THE PROPOSED TAX BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027.

MS. ATO? YES.

[Ordinance 31-26 ]

AND OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE BROUGHT FORWARD TONIGHT BY MEGAN MURRAY.

ME MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

THERE ARE NO CHANGES SINCE THE FIRST READING TO THE 2027 TAX BUDGET AND STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS DISCUSSION.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE VICE MAYOR DEROSA? YES.

ORDINANCE 32 DASH 26 AMENDING THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31ST, 2026.

[Ordinance 32-26 ]

AND WE'LL STICK WITH MEGAN WITH THE STAFF REPORT.

WELCOME BACK.

AND THERE ARE NO CHANGES SINCE THE FIRST READING TO THE Q2 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS DISCUSSION.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE DR. LAMB? YES.

MS. A LUDO? YES.

BRINGS US TO THE INTRODUCTION.

THIS

[Ordinance 33-26 ]

FIRST READING ORDINANCES, ORDINANCE 33 DASH 26 AMENDMENTS TO ZONING CODE SECTION 1 5 3 0.0 0 2 1 5 3 0.06 AND 1 5 3 0.037 THROUGH 1 5 3 0 4 2 AND 1 5 3 0.236 FOR THE REMOVAL OF DATA CENTERS AS PERMITTED OR CONDITIONAL USES THE CREATION OF AN I THE ID SIX RESEARCH TRANSITION DISTRICT AND THE AMENDMENT OF DESIGN STANDARDS ASSOCIATED WITH ID SIX IN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT AND THE CREATION OF THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT SCREENING AND SETBACK DESIGN MANUAL.

INTRODUCE IT.

AND OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE BROUGHT FORWARD THIS EVENING BY ZACH HOSHE AND HE WILL GET ASSISTANCE FROM GREG DALE KEEGAN WHITE, UM, MCBRIDE, DALE CLARION AND TYLER CLARK.

CHRIS HERMAN, AND KIMBERLY WARE FROM MKSK.

IT'S JUST WE, THAT'S WHERE WE'VE BEEN AT THIS POINT.

THANK YOU MAYOR, AND GOOD EVENING.

UH, SO AS STATED, THIS IS THE FIRST HEARING HERE WITH CITY COUNCIL FOR THE PROPOSED WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT CODE AMENDMENTS.

UM, A SECOND HEARING IS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED FOR JULY 1ST, OR ANTICIPATED FOR JULY 1ST.

BUT THIS SLIDE IS JUST TO SHOW, UM, WHERE WE'VE KIND OF BEEN WITH, UH, ID SIX AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE BACKGROUND BEYOND THIS.

BUT THESE THREE MEETINGS THAT WE'VE ALREADY HAD WITH PLANNING COMMISSION INCLUDED INTRODUCTION, UH, OF A ROADMAP, WHICH WAS THE INTENT OF WHAT WE PLANNED ON DOING FOR THE CODE, AND THEN THE INTRODUCTION AT MAY 7TH, AND THEN THE RECOMMENDATION AT MAY 21ST.

SO IT'S BEEN BEFORE PLAYING COMMISSION THREE TIMES.

THEY'VE HAD A LOT OF GREAT COMMENTS FOR US AND WE'VE INCORPORATED THOSE ALONG THE PROCESS.

BUT FOR TONIGHT, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION ON THE PROPOSED CODE AMENDMENTS AND THE SETBACK AND SCREENING DESIGN MANUAL.

SO A BIT OF BACKGROUND HERE.

UH, CITY STAFF BEGAN THE REZONING PROCESS OF APPROXIMATELY 370 ACRES FROM RURAL TO ID TWO, ID THREE BACK IN FEBRUARY, 2025.

UH, IN APRIL, 2025, THERE WERE CODE AMENDMENTS REGARDING THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT THAT WERE TIED, UH, TO THEY, THEY WERE RUNNING ALONGSIDE THE REZONING EFFORT.

AND THOSE CODE AMENDMENTS WERE APPROVED BY COUNCIL.

AND THOSE CHANGES INCLUDED MAKING DATA CENTERS CONDITIONAL USES IN ID TWO AND THREE, MAKING MANUFACTURING ASSEMBLY A PERMANENT USE IN ID TWO, AND THEN INCREASING SETBACK AND SCREENING REQUIREMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL ZONING.

SO, UH, THOSE WERE IN ANTICIPATION FOR THESE REZONING PROPERTIES.

370 ACRES THAT WERE GONNA BE ID TWO AND THREE.

BUT IN AUGUST, 2025, COUNCIL DID ASK, UH, STAFF WELL COUNCIL DID, UH, TABLE THE REZONING APPLICATION TO ALLOW STAFF TO DEVELOP MORE TARGETED ZONING CODE AMENDMENTS TO ADDRESS COMPATIBILITY CONCERNS WHILE PRESERVING THE LONG-TERM VISION OF THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT.

UH, SO FROM THAT STAFF DEVELOPED THE ID SIX CODE AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT TONIGHT.

UM, I DID WANNA ALSO MENTION THAT, AND I THINK THIS IS ME, STATED THAT THE CODE AMENDMENTS DO NOT CONTEMPLATE THE REZONING OF ANY PARTICULAR PROPERTY TONIGHT.

UH, THE REZONING IS OF PROPERTY IS SCHEDULED FOR THE JULY 1ST CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AND THOSE PUBLIC, UH, NOTIFICATIONS HAVE ALREADY GONE OUT.

SO THE AREA THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT, THIS ID SIX ZONING DISTRICT IS THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN CALLS FOR FLEX INNOVATION.

THE INTENT OF THAT IS FOR MORE VIBRANT MODERN DEVELOPMENT, INCORPORATING A VARIETY OF USES INCLUDING INNOVATION, OFFICE ART, COLLABORATION THAT ARE INTEGRATED INTO THE EXISTING NATURE, OUR NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS.

UH, THE SITES OR THIS AREA IS ALSO IN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT, WHICH IS A SPECIAL AREA PLAN WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY PLAN IN VISION DUBLIN.

THE GOAL OF THIS DISTRICT, 2200 ACRES IS TO ESTABLISH A WORLD CLASS INNOVATION AND RESEARCH DISTRICT AND TO SERVE AS AN ECONOMIC ENGINE

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FOR DUBLIN.

UH, THERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH ARE FOUND WITHIN THE PLAN THAT ARE SHOWN ON THE SCREEN.

I'D SAY THE PRIMARY TWO THAT WOULD, UH, CONTRIBUTE TO THE ID SIX ARE THE LANDSCAPE BUFFER ALONG COSWAY ROAD, WHICH IS CALLED FOR 200 FEET.

AND THEN THE PRESERVATION OF THE FARMSTEAD THAT'S ON THE CITY OF DUBLIN'S PROPERTY.

SO SINCE FEBRUARY 20TH, UH, 2025, THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHT MEETINGS.

THIS IS THE NINTH PUBLIC MEETING, UH, BETWEEN CITY COUNCIL AND PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION FOR BOTH BETWEEN THE REZONING AND THE CODE AMENDMENTS.

UM, SO THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF TIMES THIS HAS BEEN BEFORE THE PUBLIC AND THEN ALSO GOING INTO THE PUBLIC THROUGH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH MEMBERS OF, UH, THE, OR RESIDENTS, MEMBERS OF THE BALANCE TRAY, BCA BOARD, UM, BUT ALSO PROPERTY OWNERS AND STAKEHOLDERS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THIS AREA.

SO THERE'VE BEEN A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO GAIN FEEDBACK THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS AND, UM, WE'RE EXCITED TO BRING THIS FORWARD TONIGHT JUST TO SHARE KINDA THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE TO THIS POINT.

SO I SAY, UH, STAFF ENGAGED WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE FLEX AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT SECTORS TO SHARE THE ID SIX CODE AMENDMENTS.

UM, VERY HIGH LEVEL SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THE SLIDE HERE, UH, IS THAT THEY, A LOT OF WHO WE MET WITH UNDERSTOOD AND APPRECIATED WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO IN, IN TERMS OF THE ID SIX GOALS AND INITIATIVES, UH, TO BE RESPECTFUL TO RESIDENTS CONCERNS WHILE ALSO MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE DEVELOPABLE LAND HERE.

UH, BASED ON THE LANGUAGE THAT WE PROVIDED ABOUT THE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND PROPOSED USES, THEY FELT THAT THAT WAS STILL APPROPRIATE TO ATTRACT HIGH QUALITY BUSINESS TO THE AREA.

BUT THE OTHER END OF THAT AS WELL IS THEY SHARED THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT THE 200 FOOT STEP BACK ALONG COS GRAY.

UM, AND THEN THE ENHANCED LANDSCAPE, BUFFER SETBACK THAT WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING, UH, 'CAUSE THAT REALLY TAKES INTO, UH, HOW MUCH OF THE LAND YOU CAN ACTUALLY DEVELOP.

AND THEN THERE'S SIGNIFICANT COSTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

SO, UM, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THINGS THAT THEY HAD SHARED WITH US, AND THIS TRIES TO CAPTURE THAT.

AND THEN THERE'S ALSO, UH, A LOT OF PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WE'VE HEARD THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS.

UH, IT'S HIGH LEVEL SUMMARIZED ON THE SCREEN, BUT REALLY WHAT WE'VE HEARD THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS IS CONCERN ABOUT THE TYPES OF USES THAT, UH, ARE BEING PROPOSED ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL, UH, CONCERN ABOUT THE, ANY POTENTIAL NEGATIVE, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL OR PHYSICAL IMPACTS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, TO THE STREET INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, AND WHAT'S WHAT'S EXPECTED ALONG COSWAY ROAD.

SO REALLY WHAT STAFF HAS BEEN TASKED WITH IS TAKING THE CONCERNS THAT WE'VE HEARD FROM THE RESIDENTS WHILE ALSO THE CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND TRY AND FIND A WAY TO, UH, WALK THIS FORWARD TO BALANCE A LOT OF THE COMMENTS THAT WE'VE HEARD.

SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'VE BROUGHT FORWARD TO YOU TODAY AND WE'LL TALK THROUGH THAT.

SO AGAIN, HIGH LEVEL, UM, IF YOU WERE TO PUT WHAT WE'RE DOING ON ONE SLIDE, UM, BASED ON THE CONCERNS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED, WE'VE CREATED THIS NEW ID SIX ZONING DISTRICT TO ALLOW FOR LOWER INTENSITY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION USE IS SENSITIVE, UH, TO SOME OF OUR MORE SENSITIVE AREAS SUCH AS RESIDENTIAL.

UH, WE ARE REMOVING DATA CENTERS AS A PERMIT OR CONDITIONAL USE WITHIN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT.

WE'RE ADDING A 200 FOOT COSWAY ROAD SETBACK WITH SIGNIFICANT BUFFERS AND LANDSCAPING TO OBSCURE BUILDINGS, UH, IN DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THIS AREA.

THERE WILL BE NO STANDALONE WAREHOUSE WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES HERE.

WE'RE LOWERING THE BUILDING HEIGHTS FROM 68 FEET TO 45 FEET.

UM, THERE'S ADDITIONAL OPERATIONAL LIMITS AND STANDARDS THAT ADDRESS NOISE LIGHTS, UM, VISUAL IMPACTS WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE, HAVE THE USE ON THE SITE.

IT HAS TO BE ENTIRELY WITHIN THE BUILDING, BUT ALSO WHERE YOU CAN DESIGN THIS BUILDING AND WHERE SERVICE AREAS ARE REQUIRED TO BE.

UM, SO AGAIN, HIGH LEVEL WE WILL DIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH WITH EACH OF THESE REQUIREMENTS IN A BIT MORE.

SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP, UH, THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS IS THE ACTUAL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM AND WITHIN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT.

SO DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPLICATIONS ARE REVIEWED IN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT BY OUR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM.

THERE ARE SEVEN MEMBERS ON THAT BOARD.

THEY'RE EACH MADE OF ONE OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS SHOWN ON THE SCREEN.

SO THERE'S A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERTISE THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE CITY, UH, BUT ALSO WHO WE WORK WITH IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, UH, WHO ARE NOT JUST REVIEWING THE CASES, BUT MAKING THE DECISIONS ON THESE AS WELL.

UM, SO THE A RT, AND THIS IS CURRENTLY, THIS IS ALL IN OUR CODE CURRENTLY.

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO CHANGE JUST WHEN TO POINT THIS OUT.

BUT THE A RT IS REQUIRED TO EITHER MAKE A DETERMINATION ON DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPLICATIONS WHEN ALL REQUIREMENTS ARE MET AND THE INTENT OF THE DISTRICT IS MET, OR THEY CAN RECOMMEND THE APPLICATION BE REVIEWED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

UH, IF THE PROPOSAL DOESN'T MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE DISTRICT, THE INTENT OF THE DISTRICT, OR IT HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY IMPACT THAT REQUIRES ADDITIONAL INPUT.

SO AGAIN, THIS IS ALREADY HERE.

UM, WE HAVE, WE HAVE NOT HAD AN APPLICATION IN THE WID WHERE THE ENTIRE APPLICATION HAS HAD TO GO TO PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION BECAUSE THOSE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS HAVE MET THE REQUIREMENTS.

UM, THAT'S NOT TO SAY IT COULDN'T HAPPEN,

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UM, IN THE CASE WHERE WHAT WE HAVE HAD IS DEVELOPMENTS MOSTLY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS, BUT THERE'S MAYBE TWO OR THREE REQUIREMENTS THAT HAVE TO GO TO PLANNING COMMISSION FOR REVIEW.

THOSE ARE A FEW THAT WE HAVE HAD IN THE PAST.

UM, SO JUST TO PROVIDE SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW DEVELOPMENT HAS OCCURRED OUT IN THIS DISTRICT.

AND THEN THE LAST SIDE FOR ME IS, UH, BASED ON ALL THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE ON THE SCREEN, ANY SORT OF DEVELOPMENT WOULD HAVE TO MEET ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE SHOWN.

SO IT HAS TO MEET THE DISTRICT INTENT, IT HAS TO MEET A SPECIFIC USE DEFINITION THAT'S OUTLINED IN ID SIX.

THERE'S USE SPECIFIC STANDARDS.

THERE'S SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, BUILDING CODE, FIRE CODE, EPA REQUIREMENTS.

AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, WE ARE ALSO REQUIRING APPLICANTS TO PROVIDE DATA SHOWING HOW THE USE DOES NOT CREATE ANY MEASURABLE INCREASE OF HAZARDOUS EMISSIONS TO NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES.

SO WE HAVE A LAUNDRY LIST OF THINGS THAT ANY DEVELOPER IS GONNA HAVE TO MEET, UH, WITHIN THIS DISTRICT.

AND AGAIN, WE WILL CONTINUE TO EXPLAIN THIS.

SO, UH, WITH THAT I'M GONNA CALL UP, UH, GREG AND KEEGAN TO TALK THROUGH THE CODE.

UH, AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'LL TALK THROUGH THE, UH, BUFFER STUDY.

SO THANK YOU ZACH.

MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW, HOW, UM, HOW MUCH OPACITY SHOULD BE DESIGNED INTO THE LANDSCAPING PROCESS, THE MOUNTING AND BUFFERING THE SUSTAINABILITY BONUS FOR COS GRAY ROAD, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT THE, UH, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION WAS VERY INTERESTED IN.

IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE.

UH, GREG DALE WITH MCBRIDE, DALE CLARION.

OUR JOB HAS BEEN TO, UH, WORK WITH STAFF TO DRAFT THE CODE.

I'M GONNA COVER JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE IN A COUPLE OF SLIDES AND SET THE STAGE FOR KEEGAN STIT WHITE, WHO'S GONNA TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL.

I'M GONNA TALK, UH, FIRST ABOUT HOW WE SAW OUR ASSIGNMENT, UH, BEING SET UP BY THE PLANNING WORK THAT THE CITY HAS ALREADY DONE TO DATE.

AND I WANNA JUST, I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND.

AND THEN I WANT TO, UH, JUST GO INTO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE HEARD AS WE WENT ABOUT OUR ASSIGNMENT, WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE PUBLIC, WHAT WE HEARD FROM PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.

SO, UM, I THINK IT'S WORTH JUST REITERATING, REITERATING WHAT ZACH WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE AS SOMEONE WHO WAS ASKED TO COME IN AND DO THE ZONING WORK ON THIS, UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE FOUNDATION THAT HAS BEEN SET BECAUSE IN TYPICAL DUBLIN FASHION, IT IS A VERY STRONG FOUNDATION BASED ON A VERY DELIBERATE, THOUGHTFUL AND THOROUGH PROCESS.

UH, AND IT STARTED WITH YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UH, ENVISION DUBLIN, WHICH IS MORE THAN JUST A LAND USE PLAN WITH COLORS ON A MAP.

IT WAS BASED ON PRETTY EXTENSIVE LAND USE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND FISCAL MODELING THAT LOOKED AT THE CITY AS A WHOLE AND ARRIVED AT THIS FUTURE LAND USE PLAN THAT WE'RE NOW DEALING WITH.

UH, AFTER A VERY THOROUGH PROCESS, THEN SPECIFICALLY WENT INTO GREATER DETAIL IN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT SPECIAL AREA PLAN.

SO IT ZOOMED INTO THAT AREA IN DETAIL AND THEN WAS FOLLOWED UP WITH THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT IMPLEMENTATION, INTEGRATED IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TO HELP LOOK AT ALL THAT IN A BIG PICTURE.

AND THEN FINALLY, FROM THE ZONING PERSPECTIVE, OUR JOB WAS TO, UM, BALANCE THE DESIRES OF RESIDENTS, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UH, ALONG WITH THE DEVELOPABILITY OF THE, OF THE, OF THE PROPERTY.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND AS WE GO THROUGH THIS, BECAUSE IT BECOMES MATERIAL TO SOME OF THE ISSUES I THINK WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT, AND THAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF RETAINING FLEXIBILITY IN THIS PROCESS.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS AN INNOVATION DISTRICT.

AND BY DEFINITION THAT MEANS THAT FIRST OF ALL, YOU HOPE THAT THESE INNOVATIVE USES COME INTO THE CITY.

AND WE FULLY EXPECT THAT AS YOU LOOK OUT 3, 5, 10, 15 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE, THOSE WILL EVOLVE BY DEFINITION.

IF YOU WANT INNOVATIVE BUSINESSES TO COME IN, THEY'RE GONNA BE CUTTING EDGE, THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING NEW THINGS.

AND SO THE IMPORTANCE OF RETAINING THE FLEXIBILITY, I THINK IS, IS, UH, VERY IMPORTANT.

SO IN TERMS OF, EXCUSE ME, IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'VE HEARD SO FAR, LET ME LOOK AT TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

ONE IS THE, UM, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND THE OTHER, WHAT THE PUBLIC COMMENT HAS EMPHASIZED.

SO I WON'T GO INTO EACH OF THESE IN DETAIL.

I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING DEFINITION.

WE'RE PROBABLY ON OUR FOURTH OR FIFTH VERSION OF THAT DEFINITION.

UH, WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK WITH STAFF.

WE'VE LISTENED TO THE RESIDENTS, WE'VE RESEARCHED WHAT OTHER COMMUNITIES HAVE DONE.

THIS IDEA OF DEFINING ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IS A, IS A DIFFICULT CHALLENGE.

AND I THINK THE, WHAT WE FINALLY HAVE NOW AS A RESULT OF THE INPUT THAT WE, WE'VE RECEIVED IS, IS, IS I THINK A, A GOOD DEFINITION.

UH, THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CONDITIONAL USE DESIGNATION AND WHETHER IT SHOULD BE A USE AS OF RIDER CONDITIONAL USE.

I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD THAT DISCUSSION, FLEET VEHICLE LOCATION AND SCREENING RENEWABLE ENERGY ISSUES AND, AND LIMITING WHAT IS POSSIBLE THERE.

THE LAND, THINGS LIKE LANDSCAPING, OPACITY,

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WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT MORE IF, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.

THE APPLICATION, UH, THE CLARITY ON HAZARDOUS MATERIALS IS AN ISSUE THAT WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT.

WE HEARD THE SAME KINDS OF CONCERNS FROM THE PUBLIC IN TERMS OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY IMPACTS, THE NEED FOR ENFORCEABLE STANDARDS, FOR NOISE EMISSIONS AND AND SO FORTH.

UM, THE ISSUE OF WHETHER OR NOT, UH, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS CONDITIONAL USES, THAT THAT WAS EXTENSIVELY DISCUSSION DISCUSSED.

AND THEN THE, THE, THE, THE LANDSCAPING AS WELL.

I DO WANT TO JUST KIND OF, AS I HAND THIS OVER TO, TO, TO KEEGAN EMPHASIZE A COUPLE OF THINGS, JUST TO REITERATE WHAT ZACH JUST SAID.

SO THE WAY THIS IS PROPOSED TO WORK IS THAT IF AN APPLICANT COMES IN AND REQUESTS APPROVAL FOR THIS, THE STAFF THROUGH THE, UH, A RT WILL BE LOOKING AT ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ZACH PUT UP.

IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S, IT'S THE DEFINITIONS OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING.

IT'S THE INTENT LANGUAGE, IT'S THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS THAT WOULD ALL BE LOOKED AT AS A, AS A PACKAGE.

THERE'S SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IN HERE THAT ALLOWS, ACTUALLY REQUIRES STAFF TO DEMAND OF AN APPLICANT THAT THEY MEET ALL OF THOSE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, DEFINITION AND INTENT STATEMENTS.

AND THERE'S, AND THERE'S SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IN THERE THAT REQUIRES THE APPLICANT TO SUBMIT SUFFICIENT INFORMATION AND, AND THE LANGUAGE THAT CAME OUT OF PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION USING CURRENT TESTING, UH, BEST TESTING METHODOLOGY OF THE TIME TO ENSURE THAT NO MEASURABLE INCREASE IN HAZARDOUS EMISSIONS OCCUR THAT THEN GETS REVIEWED BY THE, UH, BY THE A RT, BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM.

AND THAT INCLUDES THE CHIEF BUILDING OFFICIAL AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WHO WOULD HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE TECHNICAL, UH, KINDS OF, UH, CONSIDERATIONS.

SO THE POINT BEING THAT IT, IT IS TRUE, THERE ARE NOT, THERE'S NOT A SCHEDULE OF ACCEPTABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE CHEMICALS.

THEY'RE NOT, THERE'S NOT LANGUAGE IN THERE THAT SETS AMOUNTS FOR DIFFERENT CHEMICALS, BUT IN ORDER TO REVIEW, TO RETAIN THAT FLEXIBILITY, WE THINK THAT THE PRACTICE OF, OF THE DEMANDING THE ABILITY TO DEMAND AN APPLICANT TO SUBMIT INFORMATION, TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THAT DEFINITION, INTENT, AND AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARD ARE MET, PUTTING IT THROUGH THE D APP, UH, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM TO DETERMINE THAT NO MEASURABLE INCREASES IN HAZARD OF COMMISSIONS WOULD OCCUR.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND HERE, AND THAT WAS A REALLY FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION THAT WAS DISCUSSED AT, AT PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, AND I'M SURE WE CAN COME BACK TO THAT.

SO WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO, UH, KEEGAN, STITT WHITE, WHO CAN WALK YOU THROUGH THIS IN MORE DETAIL.

CAN SPECIFICALLY BE PERMITTED IN THIS USE ON TOP OF THE DEFINITION ITSELF.

ALL RIGHT.

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

AS GREG SAID, MY NAME IS KEEGAN STITT WHITE.

I'M WITH MCBRIDE DEL CLARION.

I'LL BE WALKING YOU THROUGH THE SPECIFIC CODE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED FOR THE ID SIX DISTRICT.

SO BEFORE WE DO THAT THOUGH, I JUST WANT TO REITERATE, THERE IS ONE DISTRICT-WIDE CHANGE THAT IS PROPOSED AND THAT IS THE REMOVAL OF DATA CENTERS AS CONDITIONAL USES FROM THE WID ITSELF.

SO THIS IS THE ONLY CHANGE THAT IMPACTS THE ENTIRE WID, AND THIS IS BASED ON FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT FUTURE DATA CENTER DEVELOPED DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE CHARACTER OF THE WIT ITSELF.

SO TURNING TO THE SPECIFIC REGULATIONS FOR THE ID SIX ON YOUR SCREEN IS THE INTENT, PROPOSED INTENT STATEMENT.

? YEAH, SORRY.

BETTER JUST GETTING OVER A COLD.

MY BAD.

SO ON YOUR SCREEN NOW IS THE INTENT STATEMENT FOR THE ID SIX RESEARCH TRANSITION DISTRICT.

SO AS YOU'LL SEE IN HERE, THERE'S A LOT OF LANGUAGE THAT PERTAINS TO THE SUPPORTING OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, FOSTERING INNOVATION TO HAVE THIS BA CUTTING EDGE DISTRICT FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN, BUT ALSO MAKING SURE THAT THIS DISTRICT PROVIDES A SENSITIVE TRANSITION FROM RESIDENTIAL AND OTHER ADJACENT SENSITIVE LANDS.

IN THIS SPECIFIC DISTRICT, AS YOU CAN SEE, USES ARE EXPECTED TO BE OF LOWER INTENSITY AND SCALE, AND THIS SHOULD NOT RESULT IN ADVERSE IMPACTS TO SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.

THESE INCLUDE THINGS SUCH AS ENVIRONMENTAL EMISSIONS, NOISE, TRAFFIC, LIGHTING, OR OTHER OFFS, SIDE EFFECTS.

IN GENERAL, THIS DISTRICT DOES EMPHASIZE THE PROVISION OF FLEXIBLE SPACES, HOWEVER, THIS FLEXIBILITY CANNOT COMPROMISE THE DISTRICT'S LOW INTENSITY CHARACTER, ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY, OR ITS COMPATIBILITY WITH ADJACENT AREAS.

SO BEFORE I DISCUSS THE USES THAT ARE PROPOSED FOR THIS DISTRICT, I FIRST WANTED TO GO OVER THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRINCIPAL AND AN ACCESSORY USE.

SO WHEN I'M DISCUSSING A PRINCIPLE USE, THAT IS THE PRIMARY PURPOSE FOR A PROPERTY.

HOWEVER, AN ACCESSORY USE IS A USE THAT IS INCIDENTAL AND SUBORDINATE

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TO THAT PROPERTY ITSELF.

SO THESE ARE THINGS SUCH AS PARKING AREAS OR LOADING AREAS.

THESE ARE USES THAT CANNOT EXIST ON ITS OWN ON THE PROPERTY, BUT SOLELY FUNCTION TO SUPPORT THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS OF A PRINCIPAL USE.

SO TURNING TO THE USES THEMSELVES, THERE ARE SIX SPECIFIC USES PROPOSED FOR THE ID SIX DISTRICT, AND THESE ARE OFFICE GENERAL MEDICAL PARKS AND OPEN SPACE, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, CONSTRUCTION AND CONTRACT SERVICES AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

SO FIVE OF THESE USES ALREADY LOCATED WITHIN THE WIT ITSELF.

THE ONLY NEW USE THAT'S PROPOSED AS ADVANCED MANUFACTURING.

THE DEFINITION OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IS ON YOUR SCREEN.

THE INTENT OF ADDING THE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING DEFINITION TO THE ID SIX IS TO CREATE A SPECIFIC USE THAT NARROWLY TAILORS YOUR EXISTING MANUFACTURING AND ASSEMBLY USE TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW THAT IS KIND OF HANDMADE FOR THIS DISTRICT.

SO AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE DEFINITION, THIS USE IS PRIMARILY ENGAGED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF FINISHED PRODUCTS.

SO NO RAW PRODUCTS UTILIZING, UM, INNOVATIVE METHODS AND OFTEN REQUIRES A HIGH LEVEL OF SPECIALIZED AND COMPANY SKILL TRAINING, BUT ALSO INCLUDES, UM, NEWER TECHNOLOGICAL USES AND PROCESSES SUCH AS USE OF ROBOTICS, AUTOMATION, ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, AND OTHER INNOVATIVE METHODS WITHIN THE DEFINITION ITSELF.

WE HAVE ALSO INCLUDED SPECIFIC ACCESSORY ACTIVITIES THAT COULD HAPPEN WITHIN THAT USE.

THESE DO INCLUDE QUALITY CONTROL, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION, AND ONSITE SALES.

JUST AS A REMINDER, THIS DEFINITION DOES NOT INCLUDE STANDALONE WAREHOUSING, WHOLESALING, BULK DISTRIBUTION, OR PRINCIPLE RETAIL SALES AS PART OF ITS USE.

SO TO FURTHER REGULATE THIS USE, THERE ARE SPECIFIC LIMITATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE CODE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE ID SIX.

THESE INCLUDE THAT THE USE HAS TO OPERATE ENTIRELY WITHIN A BUILDING, NO ONSITE STORAGE IS PERMITTED OUTSIDE.

THERE'S ALSO PERFORMANCE STANDARDS LIMITATION REGARDING THE GENERATION OF NOISE, ODOR AND OTHER EMISSIONS.

AND THERE'S A RESTRICTION ON THE USE OF INCINERATORS, SMELTING, SMOKESTACKS AND OTHER USES OF THAT SUCH, UNLESS A SPECIFIC APPLICATION IS PROVIDED, WHICH PROVIDES THAT WILL NOT CAUSE ANY NUISANCE TO NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES.

SO THE NEXT USE CONSTRUCTION AND CONTRACT SERVICES IS ONE THAT'S ALREADY EXISTING IN THE CODE.

SO IN ORDER TO NOT IMPACT OTHER LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WID THAT HAVE THIS USE, WHAT WE DID IS CREATE USE SPECIFIC STANDARDS FOR THE ID SIX DISTRICT.

SO THE ID SIX LIMITS ID SIX LIMITS YOU SEE ON HERE WOULD ONLY IMPACT THAT DISTRICT.

SO THESE ALSO KIND OF MIRROR WHAT ADVANCED MANUFACTURING STATES AND FACT THAT IT WOULD HAVE TO INCUR ENTIRELY WITHIN AN ENCLOSED BUILDING.

HOWEVER, THIS ALSO REQUIRES THAT ALL EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES BE LOCATED WITHIN INSIDE THE BUILDING ITSELF, UNLESS IT'S CONSIDERED A FLEET VEHICLE WHICH CAN BE PERMITTED TO PARK OUTSIDE.

SO THE DEFINITION OF FLEET VEHICLES IS NEW WITHIN THE CODE, HOWEVER, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ALREADY REFERENCED.

SO IN ORDER TO TAILOR IT FOR THE ID SIX ITSELF, WE DID SPECIFICALLY STATE THAT FLEET VEHICLE PARKING AREAS HAVE TO UTILIZE THE SAME LANDSCAPING AND SCREENING REQUIREMENTS AS OTHER VEHICLES AS ALREADY LOCATED IN THE CODE.

ADDITIONALLY, THEY HAVE TO FIT WITHIN A STANDARD PARKING SPACE, MEANING THAT THESE VEHICLES CANNOT BE LARGER THAN A NINE BY 19 PARKING SPACE OR THE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENT OF THE CODE ITSELF IN SECTION 1 52 POINT 200.

ADDITIONALLY, FLEET VEHICLES WITHIN THE ID SIX, THERE'S A SPECIFIC PROHIBITION THAT THEY DO NOT INCLUDE SEMI-TRACTOR, SEMI TRAILERS, RUNNING NON RECREATIONAL TRAILER OR ANY HEAVY EQUIPMENT.

SO LASTLY, LOOKING AT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS IS ANOTHER USE THAT'S EXISTING IN THE CODE.

SO IN ORDER TO FURTHER NARROWLY TAILOR IT FOR THIS DISTRICT, WE'VE ADDED SPECIFIC LIMITATIONS.

THESE LIMITATIONS INCLUDE THAT IT HAS TO OPERATE ENTIRELY WITHIN A BUILDING.

NO ONSITE OUTDOOR STORAGE IS PERMITTED.

ANY ACCESSORY FABRICATION, ASSEMBLY OR PROCESSING IS LIMITED TO THE PROTOTYPE OR PILOT SCALE DEVELOPMENTS AND HAS TO BE CLEARLY INCIDENTAL TO THE RESEARCH FUNCTION.

ADDITIONALLY, NO ONSITE RETAIL, WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION OR COMMERCIAL SALES OF GOOD ARE PERMITTED AND INCLUDES THE SAME PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AS ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, WHICH REGULATE THE, UM, CREATION OF ANY NOISE, ODOR, AND OTHER EMISSIONS.

TURNING TO THE ACCESSORY USES, THERE ARE EIGHT PROPOSED ACCESSORY USES FOR THIS DISTRICT.

SO ALL THE ONES ON HERE ARE CURRENTLY EXISTING WITHIN THE WIT ITSELF.

THE ONLY PROPOSED MODIFICATION COMES FROM THE ACCESSORY USE, WAREHOUSING, WHOLESALING AND DISTRIBUTION.

SO THAT DEFINITION IS PROPOSED TO REMAIN THE SAME.

HOWEVER SPECIFIC REGULATIONS ARE PROPOSED TO BE ADDED FOR THE ID SIX ITSELF.

THESE INCLUDE THAT THESE USES CANNOT OPERATE AS A STANDALONE LOGISTICS WHOLESALER BULK STORAGE FACILITY.

AND THE SECOND BULLET POINT FURTHER REGULATES WHAT

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SO IT STATES THAT THESE ACTIVITIES CAN INCLUDE STORAGE, STAGING, PACKAGING, ASSEMBLY, SHIPMENT, THE LIMITED DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS, MATERIALS, EQUIPMENTS, OR PRODUCTS USED IN PRODUCED BY OR SOLD AS PART OF THE PRINCIPLE USE.

THE THIRD BULLET POINT ON THERE IS AN EXISTING REGULATION OF THE CODE AND IS PROPOSED TO BE CARRIED OVER FOR AS PART OF THIS USE.

SO REGARDING USES NOT LISTED IN THE CODE OR NOT ADDRESSED, THESE WOULD STILL GO UNDER THE EXISTING SIMILAR USE DETERMINATION PROCESS AND WOULD NEED TO MEET THE FOLLOWING FOUR CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL.

I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT IN THIS SPECIFIC SECTION, CRITERIA ONE AND THREE, SO ANY USE THAT'S NOT LISTED WOULD NEED TO MEET THE INTENT OF THE ID SIX ITSELF, AND ANY USE THAT'S LISTED CANNOT BE MORE INTENSE THAN A USE THAT'S ALREADY PERMITTED IN THAT DISTRICT.

TURNING TO THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, UM, THE BUILDING HEIGHT IS CAPPED AT 45 FEET, AS ZACH SAID, THIS DOES INCLUDE ANY ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT IN THAT CALCULATION.

THE SETBACK FROM COS GRAY ROAD IS SET AT 200 FEET OUTDOOR STORAGE AND THE OUTDOOR OPERATION OF USE IS NOT PERMITTED.

SERVICE AREAS ARE NOT PERMITTED FOR BUILDING ELEVATIONS ALONG COS GRAY GROUND SIGNS ARE NOT PERMITTED ALONG COS GRAY SITE LIGHTING REGULATIONS WERE INCLUDED TO SPECIFICALLY LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF LIGHT, UM, TRESPASS ACROSS PROPERTY LINES WHEN ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL, BUT ALSO TO ALLOW FOR, UM, OR REQUIRE AFTER HOURS ILLUMINATION STANDARDS IN WHICH PARKING LOTS REDUCE THEIR LIGHTING BY 50% PAST 10:00 PM EXCEPT FOR THE IN INSTANCE OF SAFETY WHEN YOU'RE WITHIN 150 FEET OF THE BUILDING ENTRANCE.

IN TERMS OF THE SETBACK, LANDSCAPING AND BUFFERING ALONG STREETS, THAT'S PROPOSED TO BE REGULATED BY THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT SETBACK AND SCREENING DESIGN MANUAL.

AND THEN SCREENING FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES ALONG THE SIDE IN REAR IS SUPPOSED TO CONSIST OF 330 TREES PER A HUNDRED LINEAR FEET CONSISTING OF A MIX OF DECIDUOUS AND EVERGREEN TREES AND NATIVE UNDERSTORY SHRUBS AT 90% OPACITY.

SO THERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS IN THE CODE THAT ADDRESS THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON HERE, UM, FOR YOUR REVIEW AS WELL.

THOSE INCLUDE JUST A MINIMUM LOSS SIZE OF TWO ACRES AND A LOT COVERAGE OF 75%, WHICH IS IN LINE WITH THE OTHER DISTRICTS WITHIN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT.

SO LASTLY, LOOKING AT THE ARCHITECTURAL REQUIREMENTS, THE INTENT STATEMENT FOR THIS DISTRICT IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE ID TWO.

HOWEVER, IN THE ID SIX, THERE'S A HIGHER EMPHASIS ON THE EXPECTATION OF SMALLER SCALE BUILDINGS.

ADDITIONALLY, THE EXPECTATION OF OFFICE BUILDINGS WITH HIGHER QUALITY DETAIL ORIENTED DESIGN, AND THEN FORESIGHTED ARCHITECTURE AND SENSITIVE BUILDING DESIGN ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL.

SO REALLY WHAT THIS IS AIMING FOR IS IF ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL, THE ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS WOULD GO UP THROUGH THE REVIEW PROCESS IN TERMS OF THE PERMITTED BUILDING MATERIALS, THESE ARE NOT PROPOSED TO BE CHANGED.

THEY'RE LOCATED ON YOUR SCREEN FOR REFERENCE, YOU'LL STILL NEED TO PROVIDE 80% OF THE BUILDING FACADE AND THE PRIMARY MATERIALS WITH THE SECONDARY MATERIALS COMING IN FOR THE LEATHER 20%.

SO WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO MKSK TO DISCUSS THE SETBACK AND SCREENING DESIGN MANUAL.

UM, AS, AS NOTED HERE, UM, YOU KNOW, OVERALL SCREEN, THE VIEW OF FUTURE ID SIX BUILDINGS, UM, SERVICE AREAS AND PARKING FROM THAT FUTURE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, UM, PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY GENERALLY INCLUDES, YOU KNOW, STREETS, SIDEWALKS, TRAILS, PLACES WHERE, WHERE PEOPLE ARE OFF OF, OFF OF PRIVATE PROPERTY, UM, SCREENING THOSE VIEWS INTO THE PROPERTY.

HELLO, UH, MY NAME IS TYLER CLARK.

I'M WITH MKSK, AND I'M JOINED TODAY WITH, UH, BY MY COLLEAGUE, UH, KIM WARE, ALSO FROM MKSK.

UM, SO WE'LL JUST BRIEFLY GO OVER, UM, THE I SIX SETBACK AND SCREENING DESIGN MANUAL, UM, HERE BRIEFLY AT A HIGH, AT A HIGH LEVEL, AND THEN, UM, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS LATER ON.

UM, SO BEFORE WE GET INTO IT, THERE'S TWO SORT OF TWO THINGS I WANNA MENTION HERE.

ONE, WHEN WE STARTED APPROACHING THESE DESIGN STANDARDS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE WERE THINKING, UH, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE ENTIRETY OF THE WID AND HOW WE COULD KEEP THIS CONSISTENT CHARACTER, UM, THROUGH THE ENTIRE DISTRICT.

BUT TONIGHT, UM, AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE FOCUSED ON JUST THE ID SIX SITE.

UM, BUT JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND AS WE, YOU KNOW, THIS CONTINUES TO EVOLVE AND WHERE SOME OF THIS THINKING CAME FROM.

UM, AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS, IS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE APPROACH TO THIS THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO GO THROUGH, UM, IS, IS, IS IS FAIRLY EXTENSIVE.

UM, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE GONNA REALLY SEE REPLICATED ELSEWHERE.

I THINK DUBLIN WOULD BE SETTING A PRECEDENT HERE, UM, WITH THESE, UH, LANDSCAPE STANDARDS.

UM, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, REALLY ESTABLISHING THE CHARACTER, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE AIMING FOR IN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT.

UH, SO FIRST, UM, JUST I, I I BELIEVE THIS WAS MENTIONED, BUT, UM, THE SETBACK AND SCREENING DESIGN MANUAL IS ESSENTIALLY AN EXTENSION, UM, OF THE CODE.

THERE MAY BE, UM, MINOR DIFFERENCES HERE AND THERE, UM, ON THE DESIGN GUIDELINES PIECE FROM WHAT'S IN THE CODE AND WHAT'S IN THE MANUAL.

BUT THE MANUAL IS SORT OF THE PREFERRED CONDITION.

UM, SO YOU WILL SEE IT, YOU KNOW, REFERENCED IN THAT CODE LANGUAGE, UM, THIS, THIS MANUAL REFERENCED IN THAT LANGUAGE SPECIFICALLY.

UM, AND THEN JUST A NOTE THERE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE, UM, ALL REFERENCES TO SETBACKS IN THIS MANUAL ARE, UH, DO INCLUDE PAVEMENT AND BUILDINGS.

UM, AND THEY ARE MEASURED FROM FUTURE RIGHT OF WAY, UM, CONDITIONS WHERE THERE, YOU KNOW, MAY BE STREET CHANGES IN THE, IN THE FUTURE.

UM, SO KEY OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY,

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UM, AND THAT ALSO INCLUDES IN THIS CASE WE'RE, WE'RE OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO SCREEN, UM, FROM EXISTING RESIDENCES ALONG CAUSEWAY ROAD ROAD.

UM, ADDITIONALLY, UH, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, THIS, THE INTENT OF THIS IS TO APPLY SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES TO THE DISTRICT, UM, AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, PROTECTING THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY, UM, AND DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF THESE PROPERTIES WHILE STILL ACHIEVING THESE DESIGN GOALS.

UM, ESTABLISHED CLARITY AND PREDICTABILITY AND EXPECTATIONS FOR SCREENING AND BUFFERING, UH, FOR ANY, UM, YOU KNOW, NEW DEVELOPERS OR LANDOWNERS THAT COME TO THE DISTRICT.

AND THEN ESTABLISHING THIS GREENWAY EDGE NETWORK THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THE WID.

UM, AS I MENTIONED ON THE, UH, FIRST SLIDE, SO, UH, I'M GONNA START, UM, JUST EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS TO KIND OF ORIENT YOU ALL, UM, TO, YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE SORT OF DIVE INTO THE DETAILS HERE.

UM, SO ON THE SCREEN NOW IN THAT DARKER, UM, GRAYISH TONE, THAT IS THE ID SIX SITE THAT WE ARE, UM, DISCUSSING TODAY.

UM, YOU CAN SEE COS GRAY ROAD BORDERING THE SITE ON THE EAST AND SHI RINGS ROAD, UM, BORDERING THE SITE TO THE NORTH.

UM, THOSE WILL BE THE SORT OF MAIN FOCUS, UM, OF THE DESIGN MANUAL.

UM, BUT THERE'S A, A NOTE IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS AT THE END ABOUT THE OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINE, UM, THAT WE'LL GET INTO, AS WELL AS SOME OF THOSE EXISTING TREE ROWS THAT YOU CAN SEE, UM, IDENTIFIED ON THE, UH, ON THE MAP ON THE SCREEN.

UM, SO FIRST, UH, BEFORE WE GET INTO, AND YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS GONNA, WE'RE GONNA TALK HIGH LEVEL ABOUT THE SETBACKS AND HOW THEY WERE APPLIED, AND THEN, UM, WE'LL GET INTO THE ACTUAL DETAILS.

SO THERE MIGHT BE A COUPLE THINGS IN HERE THAT I, UM, IN THE TEXT, UM, THAT MAYBE DON'T MAKE SENSE AT FIRST, BUT YOU'LL SEE THOSE REFLECTED IN THE DESIGN GUIDELINES, UM, LATER ON IN THE, UH, SLIDE SERIES.

UM, SO FIRST, HOW WE'RE, UH, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDING, UH, THIS APPROACH GETS APPLIED, UM, AS SORT OF TWO PRIMARY TYPOLOGIES, UM, THE FIRST THEIR PRIMARY STREETS AND THE SECOND LOCAL STREETS.

AND THEN ROUNDABOUT KIND OF FALLS IN THIS SPECIAL CONDITIONS CATEGORY THAT THAT, THAT I'LL DIVE INTO HERE IN A BIT.

UM, BUT FIRST PRIMARY STREETS, THAT BEING COS GRAY ROAD AND CHI RINGS ROAD, UM, AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, SCREEN ENTIRELY SCREEN SERVICE AREAS, BUILDINGS, PARKING, UM, AS I MENTIONED, UM, THE SECOND CONDITION BEING LOCAL STREETS THAT'S MORE INTERNAL TO THE SITE, UM, OR THOSE ACCESS ROADS THAT WOULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT GENERALLY SEEN FROM PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, UM, ANYWAYS.

UM, BUT THAT'S WHERE, YOU KNOW, THERE MAY BE SOMEWHAT LIMITED CON CONDITION SCREENING.

UM, MOSTLY DENSE, UH, LAYERED PLANTING.

UM, AND THAT'S REALLY TO, TO TRY TO HIDE SERVICE AREAS AND PARKING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

UM, AND THEN CERTAIN ASPECTS OF BUILDING, UNLESS THERE'S SORT OF ARCHITECTURE THAT YOU WANNA SHOWCASE, UM, WHICH, WHICH WE'LL GET INTO AS WELL.

AND THEN THAT LAST ONE ROUNDABOUT, BUT I'LL, I'LL COME BACK TO THAT UNDER, UM, SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

UM, SO FIRST, UM, COS GRAY ROAD, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THE, THE RENDERINGS REFLECTING SORT OF ITS FUTURE STREET CONDITION, UM, WITH THE PLANTED MEDIAN, UM, TREE ROWS ON BOTH SIDES OF COS GRAY.

AND THEN YOU CAN SEE, UM, SORT OF THE PLANTING AND MOUNTING STRATEGY IN THE BACKGROUND THERE, UM, THAT I'LL GET INTO THE DETAILS OF.

BUT THE SECTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, UM, THAT IS ESSENTIALLY REFLECTIVE OF, UM, THIS TODAY CONDITION ON THE RIGHT, UM, WITH THE RESIDENTIAL LABEL, UM, WHERE THERE'S EXISTING BI AND, AND SORT OF DENSE PLANTING BEHIND, UM, THE, UH, RESIDENTIAL TO THE EAST AND THEN THAT FUTURE, UM, RIGHT OF WAY CONDITION IN THE MIDDLE.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, SORT OF HOW THE, THE, THE SCREENING AND UM, DEVELOPMENT, UM, WOULD BE ORIENTED HERE.

AND WHAT WE HAVE, UM, SET UP IN THE STANDARDS FOR COSWAY ROAD IS A, AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, A 200 FOOT SETBACK FROM THAT FUTURE RIGHT OF WAY, LINE OFF OF THE FUTURE STREET CONDITION, UM, WHICH WILL AGAIN, EXTEND THAT RIGHT OF WAY, WE'LL LIKELY EXTEND, UM, AS PART OF, OF, UM, THAT STREET WORK.

AND THEN I'LL GET INTO THE DETAILS OF THE, UM, THE SLOPE AND THINGS AS, AS WE MOVE ALONG HERE.

BUT, UM, WE ARE RECOMMENDING A 14 FOOT TALL MOUND, UM, IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THE, THE, THE LAYERED PLANTING, UM, AND SO FORTH, SHOWER RINGS, ROAD, UM, SIMILAR CONDITION, BUT HERE WE'VE REDUCED THE, UH, HEIGHT OF THE MOUND TO EIGHT FEET AND THE SETBACK TO 100 FEET.

THIS IS JUST SOUTH OF, UM, RECREATIONAL USE.

UM, NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL USES, UM, IN, IN THIS PART OF, UH, OR, OR IN ID SIX HERE.

UM, AND THEN LASTLY, THOSE LOCAL STREETS THAT I MENTIONED, UM, MOUND NOT NECESSARILY REQUIRED ON THESE INTERNAL STREETS, UM, BUT AGAIN, THAT DENSE LAYERED PLANTING, UM, WOULD SUPPLEMENT THAT, UM, 35 FEET FROM THE FUTURE RIGHT OF WAY IS A SETBACK PROPOSED HERE, FAIRLY STANDARD, UM, IN THIS AREA, ESPECIALLY FOR THE, AGAIN, THESE MORE INTERNAL STREETS.

AND AN EXAMPLE OF THAT, UM, SECTION IS ON THE, THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE.

UM, SO NOW JUST TO GET INTO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL.

UH, SO WHAT'S ON SCREEN NOW, UM, IS LABELED SETBACK COMPONENTS.

THESE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITHIN THAT SETBACK.

UM, SOME OF THEM, UM, CONSISTENT, SOME OF THEM, UM, YOU KNOW, IT DEPENDS ON, UH, THE, THE SCENARIO SUCH AS THE

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UTILITY, UM, EASEMENTS, UM, BUT FROM RIGHT TO LEFT, UM, RIGHT IS THE RIGHT OF WAY.

SO THAT'S LOOKING AT THE STREET, UM, YOU KNOW, THE TREE ROAD AND THE SIDEWALK AND THE RIGHT OF WAY LINE BEING IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THAT.

UM, IN SOME CASES, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, ON COSWAY ROAD, THERE ARE ALREADY UTILITIES TODAY.

THERE, THERE MAY OR MAY NOT, UH, NEED TO BE, UH, A UTILITY EASEMENT, UM, WHETHER THOSE ARE OVERHEAD OR BURIED.

UM, BUT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S EASILY ACCESSIBLE FOR MAINTENANCE OR, OR OTHER THINGS, UM, THAT MAY ARISE IN THE FUTURE.

SO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE COGNIZANT OF THAT, UM, AND APPLYING THAT WHEN NECESSARY, SO THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE PART OF A SETBACK CONDITION.

UM, AND THEN FOLLOWING THAT WOULD BE THE MOUND, UM, THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER, UH, WITH THE PLANTINGS.

AND THEN, UM, BEHIND THAT SCREEN FROM PUBLIC VIEW WOULD BE ANY, UM, NEEDED STORM WATER OR, UM, RUNOFF FROM THE, FROM THE MOUNDS AND, AND SO FORTH, UM, THEN FOLLOWED BY EITHER BUILDING OR PAVEMENT, UM, DEPENDING ON THE DEVELOPMENT THAT OCCURS.

UM, SO MOUND GRADING, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING HERE AND TRYING TO PRESERVE THAT, THAT RURAL CHARACTER, UM, THROUGHOUT THE WIND WHILE STILL RECOGNIZING, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THIS IS INTENDED TO BE AN INNOVATION DISTRICT, UM, IS MAKING SURE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT PLANTING CONDITION, THAT MOUNTING CONDITION, THE OVERALL LANDSCAPE IS STILL REFLECTIVE OF THAT.

AND WE'RE NOT SORT OF IMPLEMENTING THESE TOOTHPASTE MOUNTS AS WE'VE CALL THEM, JUST CONSISTENT LINE OF SAME HEIGHT, UM, YOU KNOW, SAME PLANTING, UH, OF MOUNDS.

SO WHAT'S RECOMMENDED IN THIS DESIGN MANUAL, UM, IS THESE SORT OF OVERLAPPING AND UNDULATING MOUNDS.

SO THEY COULD SORT OF VARY JUST SLIGHTLY IN, IN HEIGHTS.

UM, WE WANT TO BREAK THEM APART IN CERTAIN INSTANCES AND HAVE THEM OVERLAP, NOT AGAIN, JUST NOT JUST BE ONE CONSISTENT, UM, MOUND ACROSS.

SO THAT'S WHAT IS SORT OF REFLECTED IN THIS DIAGRAM HERE.

UM, AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE REQUIREMENTS ON THE SLOPES OF THE MOUND ON BOTH THE PUBLIC SIDE AND THE PRIVATE SIDE TO ACHIEVE THAT SAME, UM, GOAL.

SO SIX TO ONE SLOPE ON THE PUBLIC SIDE, SO IT'S A LITTLE MORE NATURAL OF A SLOPE.

IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, NOT CREATING A WALL.

AND THEN, UH, SLIGHTLY STEEPER, UM, THREE TO ONE ON THE PRIVATE SIDE IS ALLOWED JUST, YOU KNOW, TO PRESERVE DEVELOPMENT SPACE DEPENDING ON THE SETBACK.

UM, AND THEN FOLLOWING THAT, SO IN ADDITION TO THE MOUNDS, WHICH IS SORT OF THAT I THINK EASY TO UNDERSTAND, UM, SORT OF PHYSICAL PIECE OF THIS THAT COMES IN FIRST WOULD BE THE MOUNT PLANTING.

SO THIS IS SUPPLEMENTING, UM, IN THE INTERNAL STREETS SUPPLEMENTING THE MOUNTING, BUT ON SORT OF COS GRAY ROAD AND SHI RINGS ROAD WHERE WE WANT THESE MORE EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPES.

UM, WITH COMPLETE SCREENING, UM, TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE SHOWING THIS, UH, LAYERED PLANTING STRATEGY AS YOU COULD SEE ON SCREEN.

SO THIS WOULD INCLUDE, UH, POTENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, NO MORE GRASS ON THE MOUND, UM, MAYBE SOME, UM, UNDER PLANTED SHRUBS, UM, DECIDUOUS TREES LIKE IN THE FRONT SIDE, PUBLIC SIDE OF THE MOUND WITH EVERGREEN TREES ON THE BACK SO THAT WE HAVE YEAR ROUND SCREENING.

UM, THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, MORE DETAILED TECHNICAL STANDARDS WITHIN THE MANUAL THAT WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON, UM, ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHERE TREES ARE PLANTED, HOW MANY ARE PLANTED IN A GROUP, AND THE SPACING AND THAT SORT OF THING, BUT SAME, UM, SORT OF APPROACH APPLIED TO THE PLANTINGS, UM, PRESERVING THAT SORT OF NATURAL APPEARANCE.

UM, VERY DENSE, UH, UH, REQUIREMENTS IN HERE FOR THOSE, THOSE PLANTINGS.

AND AGAIN, ENSURING THAT THERE'S YEAR ROUND SCREENING, THERE'S A GOOD MIX OF EVERGREENS AND DECIDUOUS, UM, TREES IN THERE.

UM, A COUPLE, A COUPLE THINGS THAT, UH, I'M SURE HAVE, YOU KNOW, AS YOU WOULD GO THROUGH THE MANUAL, UM, WOULD COME UP, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE HANDLE SITUATIONS WHERE THERE MIGHT BE TWO DIFFERENT PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER, OR HOW DO WE, UM, PRESERVE THESE TREE ROWS THAT WE'VE MENTIONED WHILE STILL KEEPING THIS MOUND AND SCREENING CONDITION THROUGHOUT THE, OR ALONG THE EDGE OF THE PROPERTY.

UM, SO, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ADDRESSED THAT, UM, WITHIN THE MANUAL, UM, HERE BEING JUST A BRIEF, UH, HIGH LEVEL EXAMPLE OF THAT, UM, AND HOW THAT WAS WRITTEN.

SO ON THE LEFT, UM, THIS IS AN INSTANCE WHERE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A CASE WHERE THERE'S TWO PROPERTIES, UM, THAT ARE DEVELOPED SEPARATELY OR BY DIFFERENT OWNERS, UM, THAT, THAT DO, THAT ARE ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER, UM, HOW THAT SORT OF MOUNTING WOULD BE HANDLED, UM, WHEN THOSE TWO THINGS, WHEN THOSE TWO PROPERTIES MEET, UM, IN TERMS OF, AGAIN, THAT OVERLAPPING PIECE AND THEN USING A LOT OF THOSE DENSE PLANTINGS TO SORT OF COVER THAT GAP.

UM, A COUPLE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE DISCUSS A LOT WITH COUNCIL AND A AND, AND A LOT WITH, UM, CITY STAFF, UH, STORM WATER AND SHARED USE PATHS, UM, ARE ARE NOTED IN THE MANUAL.

SO AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, ANY STORM WATER IS INTENDED TO BE ON THE PRIVATE SIDE OF THE SCREENING, UM, NOT VISIBLE FROM THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.

UM, THAT INCLUDES SORT OF ALL TYPOLOGIES.

UM, AND THEN SHARED USE PATHS, UM, JUST, YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZING THAT THAT'S A, A COMPONENT HERE.

UM, UH, PLANNING, ZONING, COMMISSION TALKED A LOT ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, WANTING THOSE TO FEEL MORE NATURAL AND NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALKS AND ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES TO SORT OF INTEGRATE THOSE INTO THE, INTO THE MOUNTING AND PLANTING CONDITION.

UM, SO THAT'S SORT OF PART OF THAT, THAT UTILITY EASEMENT I FORGOT TO MENTION EARLIER.

UM, SOME OF THAT COULD

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ALSO INCLUDE, UM, YOU KNOW, EXTENDING SOME OF THESE PATHS IF THEY WANNA WIND THEM INTO, UM, THAT SCREENING CONDITION IN FRONT OF THE MOUNDS.

UM, SO THERE'S LANGUAGE IN THE MANUAL ABOUT HOW TO ACHIEVE THAT AND, AND UM, HOW THAT WOULD BE APPLIED.

UM, AND SO LASTLY HERE, THE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BIGGER PIECES IN THE MANUAL ARE THESE SPECIAL CONDITIONS JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE SORT OF, YOU KNOW, CATCHING EVERYTHING.

UM, WITHIN ID SIX.

SO THAT FIRST IS THE ROUNDABOUT THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER.

AS YOU KNOW, UH, WHERE COS GRAY ROAD AND SHOWER RINGS ROAD INTERSECT, THERE IS A ROUNDABOUT THERE THAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A, A GATEWAY, UM, IN THIS DISTRICT.

UM, SO A LITTLE BIT, UH, UH, OF A HIGHER CONDITION, UM, OF TREATMENT THERE ALONG THAT EDGE.

SO THERE'S LANGUAGE IN THERE ABOUT INCORPORATING, UM, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN TYPES OF STONE.

UM, THE, THE MOUNTING NEEDS TO TRANSITION FROM THE COS GRAY REQUIREMENT TO THE SHIRE RINGS ROAD REQUIREMENTS.

SO THERE'S DIMENSIONS IN THERE ABOUT HOW TO, UM, ACHIEVE THAT.

UM, AND THEN AGAIN, JUST THAT SORT OF HIGHER LEVEL OF PLANTING AND AND MATERIAL, UM, AT THAT GATEWAY MOMENT.

UM, ADDITIONALLY FARMSTEADS, UM, I DIDN'T POINT THESE OUT ON THE MAP EARLIER, BUT THERE ARE A COUPLE EXISTING FARMSTEADS ON THE PROPERTY.

UM, THOSE BEING, UM, SPECIFICALLY THE JUT FARMSTEAD AND THE GEESE FARMSTEAD, UM, TO THE SOUTH, THE JUTT FARMSTEAD BEING ON THE NORTHERN PART OF COS GRAY ROAD.

UM, THOSE ARE IDENTIFIED AS BEING PRESERVED.

UM, AND THERE'S SOME GUIDELINES IN THERE ABOUT HOW TO TREAT THE SCREENING AROUND THE EDGES OF THOSE, UM, PROPERTIES AS WELL, UM, AS NOTED HERE.

AND THEN, UH, AS I WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, UM, THE EWT FARM SAID, UM, THIS IS JUST A RENDERING OF UM, YOU KNOW, THAT BEING MORE OF A COMMUNITY SPACE, THIS IS A PROPERTY OWNED BY THE CITY.

UM, ANOTHER SPECIAL CONDITION, UM, THAT WE SPENT SOME TIME ON IS THIS SORT OF ENTRY DRIVE.

SO IF THERE ARE AREAS WHERE PRIMARY ENTRY DRIVES WOULD, UM, INTERSECT WITH THE MOUND, HOW SHOULD THAT BE HANDLED? UM, AND SO AS IS SHOWN ON SCREEN HERE, UM, WE'VE REQUIRED THAT TO SORT OF WIND AND THE MOUNDS TO START TO OVERLAP AT THE EDGES THERE, SO THAT, THAT IS STILL FULLY SCREENED, UM, THROUGH THAT, THAT BREAK IN THE MOUND, UM, TO ACCOUNT FOR UM, YOU KNOW, ANY CASES WHERE THAT MAY OCCUR.

AND THEN, UM, AS I MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, UM, THERE IS AN OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SITE THERE NOTED IN THAT ORANGE, UM, DOUBLE LINE THERE AND THEN THE EXISTING, UM, OVERHEAD UTILITIES ALONG COS GRAY ROAD.

UM, SO JUST THERE, THERE, THERE ARE SOME SPECIAL CONDITIONS IN THE MANUAL ABOUT HOW TO HANDLE THE SCREENING, UM, IN THOSE CONDITIONS.

I COVERED THE ONE ALONG COS GRAY, UM, BUT FOR THE OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINE THAT WOULD JUST TAKE SOME COORDINATION WITH THE UTILITY COMPANY ON WHAT IS AND ISN'T ALLOWED TO BE PLANTED THERE, BUT WE ARE STILL REQUIRING, UM, MOUNTING TO GO UNDERNEATH THAT.

UM, AND THEN LASTLY, UH, LANDSCAPE PLANTINGS.

I DON'T HAVE A A TON OF DETAIL ON HERE, UM, 'CAUSE I DIDN'T WANNA, UH, WALK THROUGH ALL OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES TYPES, UM, WITH YOU ALL TONIGHT AND I'M SURE YOU DON'T WANT ME TO.

UM, BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE, WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.

BUT AGAIN, UM, A LOT OF THIS IS, IS AGAIN, LAYERED DENSE PLANTING, YEAR ROUND SCREENING, UM, VARIED HEIGHTS, UM, IN, IN THOSE PLANT MATERIALS AND THAT JUST NATURAL, UM, LOOK THROUGHOUT AND THIS IS WHERE A LOT, I MEAN THIS IS WHERE A LOT OF THE, THE COSTS COME IN, UM, ON THIS CONDITION ARE JUST THE AMOUNT OF, OF, OF PLANTING THAT IS REQUIRED IN THESE GUIDELINES.

AND AGAIN, WHERE YOU ALL WOULD BE SETTING A A PRECEDENT WITH, UM, THIS DESIGN MANUAL TURN BACK OVER TO ZACH.

SO I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A LOT OF INFORMATION.

I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S PATIENT PATIENCE WITH US AS WE WENT THROUGH ALL OF THIS.

UM, TO WRAP US UP, PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEWED THIS ON MAY 21ST AND RECOMMENDED APPROVAL WITH TWO CONDITIONS.

AND THOSE, UH, CONDITIONS WERE AROUND AMENDMENTS TO SOME OF THE TEXT.

THOSE ARE HIGHLIGHTED ON THE SCREEN AND THOSE WERE ALSO INCORPORATED THROUGHOUT, UH, THE ACTUAL CODE AMENDMENTS, THE MEMO.

UM, AND THEN THE MATERIALS YOU SAW TONIGHT.

STAFF ALSO HAD SOME SMALLER, UM, UPDATES THAT WE MADE THAT WERE IN BLUE IN THE DOCUMENT.

AGAIN, THAT IS STANDARD PRACTICE FOR US AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH THESE MATERIALS, WE CONTINUE TO TEST THEM.

UH, WE NOTICE, NOTICE THINGS AND WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS THEM.

SO, UM, THAT'S JUST US CONTINUING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE PUTTING FORTH THE BEST THING WE CAN.

SO WITH THAT, UH, STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THE ORDINANCE AT THE JULY 1ST MEETING.

HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU ALL.

COMMENTS SUBMITTED BEFORE TODAY.

THANKS ZACH FOR THE, THE WALK THROUGH ALL OF THE UPDATES AND THE CHANGES AND I APPRECIATE THE TEAM WORKING REALLY HARD ON THAT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND WITH THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AS WELL.

SO THIS WILL BRING US TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION OF OUR AGENDA.

WE WILL BEGIN WITH PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT WERE SUBMITTED ONLINE AND THEN WE WILL GO TO THOSE OF YOU THAT WISH TO, UH, TO SHARE THEM LIVE AND IN PERSON.

SO LINDSAY, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, I'M GONNA READ THE SEVEN COMMENTS THAT WERE SUBMITTED TODAY.

WERE SU SUPPLIED TO COUNCIL BEFORE TONIGHT'S MEETING.

OUR FIRST IS FROM THERESA TAS 59 65 DUN HEATH LOOP, DUBLIN, OHIO 4 3 0 1 6.

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DEAR CITY COUNCIL, I AM WRITING TO EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT THE POTENTIAL PLACEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES.

IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SINGLE FAMILY HOMES OF BALANCE TRAY, SUCH DEVELOPMENTS CAN RAISE IMPORTANT HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES, INCLUDING INCREASED TRAFFIC, NOISE, AIR POLLUTION, AND POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.

I ENCOURAGE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON NEARBY RESIDENTS AND THE LONG-TERM QUALITY OF LIFE WITHIN THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

NEXT COMMENT IS FROM CATHERINE CONNOLLY, 74 70 MOHAWK TRAIL ROAD, DAYTON, OHIO.

ALTHOUGH I DO NOT LIVE IN DUBLIN, I OFTEN VISIT A FAMILY MEMBER THERE, HIS LOVELY HOME AND PROPERTY ON HOARD ROAD AND THOSE OF HIS NEIGHBORS ARE A BEAUTIFUL ASSET TO THE DUBLIN AREA.

IT APPEARS TO ME THAT DUBLIN WILL BE RUINING THEIR OWN CITY WITH THE PROPOSED ZONING CHANGES AND CONSTRUCTION PLANS.

WHAT A SHAME.

NEXT IS FROM RYAN COLLINS, 56 19 TY CASTLE LOOP, DUBLIN, OHIO 4 3 0 1 6.

DEAR DUBLIN, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, I AM WRITING AS A RESIDENT OF DUBLIN TO RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT YOU RETURN ORDINANCE 26 DASH 33 TO CITY STAFF FOR ADDITIONAL MODIFICATIONS.

BEFORE ANY FURTHER CONSIDERATION, RESIDENTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS SURROUNDING THE PROPOSED WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT HAVE EXPRESSED IMPORTANT CONCERNS ABOUT THE REZONING AND I FEEL THEY DESERVE MORE THOROUGH ATTENTION.

AMONG THE PRIMARY ISSUES HIGHLIGHTED BY THE COMMUNITY ARE THE RISKS OF HEIGHTENED TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON LOCAL ROADS, POTENTIAL STRAINS ON PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES, AND POSSIBLE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON NEARBY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY VALUES.

THESE ARE SERIOUS MATTERS THAT COULD IMPACT THE CHARACTER AND LIVABILITY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IF NOT PROPERLY ADDRESSED, I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO DIRECT STAFF TO DEVELOP STRONGER TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, IMPROVED SAFETY MEASURES AND MEANINGFUL PROTECTIONS FOR EXISTING HOMEOWNERS.

TAKING THIS STEP WOULD SHOW THE COUNCIL'S COMMITMENT TO LISTENING TO, TO RESIDENTS, AND ENSURING BALANCED, RESPONSIBLE GROWTH FOR OUR CITY.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE AND FOR YOUR ONGOING SERVICE TO THE DUBLIN COMMUNITY.

NEXT IS FROM DEBBIE ANTHONY, 55 95 ENTRE WOODS DRIVE, DUBLIN, OHIO 4 3 0 1 6.

I LIVE OFF OF CHURCHMAN ROAD AND I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPERTY.

ALONG COS GRAY, SOME OF MY BIGGEST CONCERNS ARE INCREASED TRAFFIC, ESPECIALLY ADDITIONAL TRUCKS.

PLEASE DELETE WAREHOUSING, WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AS OPTIONS.

TOXIC AND HAZARD.

DIS MATERIALS INCLUDE SMOKE, HEAT, CHEMICALS, ODORS, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE INTERFERENCE PROPERTY VALUES DUE TO THE ABOVE ITEMS AND FROM COSMETIC APPEARANCE OF THE PROPERTY.

PLEASE KNOW, LARGE OR TALL BUILDINGS REQUIRE BUFFER ZONES, EXCUSE ME, REQUIRE BUFFER ZONES WITH TREES AND SHRUBBERY.

PLEASE THINK ABOUT IF YOU WOULD WANT THESE ITEMS NEAR YOUR HOMES.

THOMAS STEEL 66 14 TANON SQUARE, DUBLIN, OHIO 4 3 0 1 6.

I AM OPPOSED TO ANY COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL ZONING CHANGE FROM SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING ALONG OR TO THE WEST OF COS GRAY ROAD.

THE CITIZENS OVERWHELMINGLY OPPOSE SUCH CHANGE TO CONTINUE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE AREA, PARTICULARLY BALANCE TRAY.

THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN HIGH QUALITY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WITH MORE THAN 2300 SQUARE FEET AND ON AT LEAST 0.2 ACRES PER LOT.

NOT RETAIL, NOT WAREHOUSES, NOT APARTMENTS, NOT MANUFACTURING, AND CERTAINLY NOT DATA CENTERS.

DANIELLE MAER 57 12 TRAF FOGGER LANE, DUBLIN, OHIO 4 3 0 1 6.

I AM WRITING IN REGARDS TO THE PROJECT NEAR BALANCE RE NEIGHBORHOOD.

I FEEL THAT THE SPACE NEXT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD SHOULD BE UTILIZED FOR FAMILIES AND ENGAGEMENT AS THAT SPACE IS DIRECTLY NEXT TO A NEIGHBORHOOD AND WILL BE DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW SPORTS COMPLEX THAT THEY ARE BUILDING OFF COS GRAY.

ALSO, WITH THE DUBLIN SOUTH POOL BEING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, I FEEL THAT WE NEED TO KEEP DUBLIN NICE AND KEEP DUBLIN GREEN.

EVEN THOUGH WE ARE ON THE OUTSKIRTS, WE ARE STILL CONSIDERED DUBLIN AND WE ARE STILL AN AMAZING NEIGHBORHOOD.

MATT CONNOLLY, 6,000 HOARD ROAD.

DEAR MEMBERS OF THE DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL, MY NAME IS MATT CONNELLY AND I LIVE AT 6,000 HOARD ROAD.

I AM WRITING TO URGE THE DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL TO RE-DESIGNATE THE HOARD ROAD CORRIDOR FROM ID TWO THREE TO A MORE PROTECTIVE ID SIX RESEARCH TRANSITION DISTRICT MATCHING THE STANDARD ESTABLISHED EAST OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS.

MY PRE PRIMARY CONCERN WITH THE CURRENT ID THREE PLAN IS THE IMMEDIATE THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

EVERY HOUSEHOLD ON HOARD ROAD RELIES COMPLETELY ON PRIVATE WELL WATER.

INTRODUCING HEAVY HIGH INTENSITY INDUSTRIAL USES DIRECTLY IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO OUR PROPERTIES CREATES AN UNACCEPTABLE RISK OF TOXIC STORMWATER RUNOFF.

CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS,

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OIL RESIDUES AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE DO NOT BELONG NEXT TO RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES.

REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT WITHIN THE CITY OF DUBLIN LIMITS, THESE TOXINS WILL HAVE A HIGH PROBABILITY TO MIGRATE INTO THE GROUNDWATER AND AQUIFERS THAT FEED OUR PRIVATE WELLS.

PUTTING FAMILIES AT RISK UNKNOWINGLY INGESTING THESE VARIOUS TOXIC CONTAMINANTS BY ORIGINALLY PAUSING THE REZONING WEST OF THE TRACKS, THE CITY HAS HAD THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER THE HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR ALL RESIDENTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY THE INDUSTRIAL REZONING IN THE WI ALIGNING HOARD ROAD WITH THE ID SIX DESIGNATION ENSURES A SAFER, MORE RESPECTFUL BUFFER ZONE THAT PROTECTS OUR WATER SUPPLY, OUR HEALTH, AND NEARBY PUBLIC SPACES LIKE DARI FIELDS THAT IS ALSO IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE BALANCE TRADE COMMUNITY.

I ASK THAT YOU PRIORITIZE HUMAN SAFETY AND PROTECT OUR SHARED ENVIRONMENT BY EXTENDING ID SIX ZONING TO ALL RESIDENTIAL PARCELS ON HOCHER ROAD.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND LEADERSHIP ON THIS CRITICAL MATTER.

AND ZACH CASSIS 57 60 BALL TRACE CIRCLE.

DEAR MAYOR, CHRIS AROSE GROOMS AND MEMBERS OF DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL.

WHY DID I CHOOSE TO MOVE TO DUBLIN FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN MY FAMILY RELOCATED TO CENTRAL OHIO, WE HAD A CHOICE BETWEEN SEVERAL COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING UPPER ARLINGTON, NEW ALBANY, AND DUBLIN.

WE TOURED MORE THAN 50 PROPERTIES, STUDIED NEIGHBORHOODS, EVALUATED SCHOOLS AND AMENITIES, AND CAREFULLY CONSIDERED WHERE WE WANTED TO BUILD OUR FUTURE.

WE ULTIMATELY CHOSE RE.

THAT DECISION WAS INTENTIONAL BALANCE.

TRAY STOOD OUT BECAUSE OF ITS QUIET CHARACTER, THOUGHTFUL DESIGN, LOW TRAFFIC, MINIMAL NOISE AND LIGHT POLLUTION, POLLUTION, ABUNDANT GREEN SPACE AND STRONG SENSE OF COMMUNITY.

JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, IT OFFERED CONVENIENT ACCESS TO RETAIL, GROCERY STORES, RESTAURANTS, PARKS, RECREATION, AND EVERYDAY SERVICES WITHOUT SACRIFICING ITS RESIDENTIAL IDENTITY.

IT REPRESENTS THE BALANCE WE WERE LOOKING FOR, WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE PROPOSED ID SIX REZONING.

I AM WRITING TO STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS PROPOSAL BECAUSE IT THREATENS THE VERY QUALITIES THAT MADE BALANCE TRAY AND DUBLIN AS A WHOLE.

SUCH A DESIRABLE PLACE TO LIVE.

MY CONCERN IS INFORMED BY LIVED EXPERIENCE, NOT SPECULATION.

BEFORE MOVING TO OHIO, I LIVED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS FOR 10 YEARS.

DURING THAT TIME, I WITNESSED RAPID GROWTH AND REPEATED REZONINGS ADJACENT TO ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.

THESE PROJECTS WERE CONSISTENTLY PRESENTED WITH ASSURANCES OF COMPATIBILITY, BUFFERS, SETBACKS, LANDSCAPING, TRAFFIC MITIGATION, AND CAREFUL PLANNING.

THE PROMISES SOUNDED REASONABLE OVER TIME.

THE REALITY PROVED VERY DIFFERENT.

COMMERCIAL OFFICE AND EMPLOYMENT ORIENTED USES WERE INTRO INTRODUCED NEAR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS, TRAFFIC INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY.

ROADS THAT ONCE PRIMARILY SERVED RESIDENTS BECAME COMMUTER CORRIDORS.

NOISE AND LIGHT POLLUTION INCREASED THE PRESENCE OF NON-RESIDENTS.

IT CHANGED THE DAILY CHARACTER OF OUR COMMUNITY.

SAFETY BECAME A CONCERN.

WHAT HAD ONCE BEEN A QUIET, STABLE, AND SAFE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD GRADUALLY BECAME MORE CONGESTED, MORE TRANSIENT, AND LESS SAFE AND CONNECTED.

THESE CHANGES DID NOT OCCUR OVERNIGHT.

THEY ACCUMULATED OVER TIME AND ONCE ESTABLISHED THEY WERE EFFECTIVELY IRREVERSIBLE.

I ALSO LIVED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR NEARLY A DECADE WHERE I OBSERVED HOW DIFFERENT PLANNING APPROACHES PRODUCE VERY DIFFERENT LONG-TERM OUTCOMES.

COMMUNITIES SUCH AS IRVINE, NEWPORT BEACH, LAGUNA BEACH, AND DANA POINT PRIORITIZE RESIDENTIAL QUALITY OF LIFE, NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER PARKS AND OPEN SPACES AND CAREFUL SEPARATION OF COMMERCIAL AND EMPLOYMENT USES.

FROM THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS, THESE COMMUNITIES REMAIN AMONG THE MOST DESIRABLE IN THE COUNTRY WITH STRONG PROPERTY VALUES, LOW TURNOVER, AND SUSTAINED LONG-TERM INVESTMENT.

OTHER CITIES IN ORANGE COUNTY TOOK A MORE PERMISSIVE APPROACH TO MIXING INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL ADJACENCY.

WHILE THOSE DECISIONS SUPPORTED SHORT-TERM DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY, THEY OFTEN CAME WITH LONG-TERM TRADE-OFFS.

CONGESTION REDUCED NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER SAFETY CONCERNS AND DIMINISHED RESIDENTIAL STABILITY AND DESIRABILITY ACROSS BOTH REGIONS I HAVE LIVED IN THE PATTERN IS CONSISTENT.

LAND USE DECISIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES THAT EXTEND FAR BEYOND THE PROJECT BEING APPROVED.

THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT DETERMINES WHAT A COMMUNITY BECOMES LATE DECADES LATER.

THAT IS WHY ID SIX RAISES SERIOUS CONCERN.

THE PROPOSED DISTRICT WOULD INTRODUCE OFFICE RESEARCH, LABORATORY MANUFACTURING, WAREHOUSING, SUPPORTING, AND OTHER EMPLOYMENT ORIENTED USES DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.

WHILE THE PROPOSAL INCLUDES BUFFERS, SETBACKS, LANDSCAPING, AND SCREENING, THOSE MEASURES DO NOT ADDRESS THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE.

TREES DO NOT REDUCE TRAFFIC BUFFERS DO NOT ELIMINATE OPERATIONAL NOISE.

SCREENING DOES NOT PREVENT LIGHTING IMPACTS, DELIVERY ACTIVITY OR LONG-TERM INTENSIFICATION OF USES.

I ALSO ATTENDED THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING IN MAY REGARDING THIS PROPOSAL.

I APPRECIATE THE TIME AND EFFORT INVESTED BY THE COMMISSION IN REVIEWING IT, ENGAGING WITH

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RESIDENTS.

HOWEVER, I WAS LEFT WITH CONCERN ABOUT HOW SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT ISSUES WERE ULTIMATELY ADDRESSED.

IN RESPONSE, IT APPEARED THAT THE PORTIONS OF ID SIX TEXT WERE ADJUSTED IN REAL TIME THROUGH RELATIVELY BRIEF LANGUAGE ADDITIONS AND DEFINITION REFINEMENTS.

MY CONCERN IS NOT WITH THE INTENT TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES, BUT RATHER THAT COMPLEX LONG-TERM LAND USE IMPACTS MAY NOT YET HAVE BEEN FULLY RESOLVED THROUGH THE DETAILED REAL WORLD OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS.

IN MY EXPERIENCE IN OTHER RAPIDLY GROWING REGIONS, SIMILAR RELIANCE ON HIGH LEVEL TEXTUAL MITIGATION WITHOUT FULLY TESTED IMPLEMENTATION AND PRACTICE HAS NOT ALWAYS PREVENTED UNINTENDED LONG-TERM IMPACTS WHEN ZONING IS APPROVED.

THESE ISSUES MUST FROM THEORETICAL DISCUSSION INTO PERMANENT COMMUNITY CONDITIONS.

WHEN MY FAMILY MOVED TO CENTRAL OHIO, WE EVALUATED UPPER ARLINGTON, NEW ALBANY AND DUBLIN.

WE ULTIMATELY CHOSE BALANCE TRADE BECAUSE IT ALREADY PROVIDED SOMETHING RARE.

A HIGH QUALITY RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT WITH CONVENIENT ACCESS TO RETAIL, RESTAURANTS, PARKS AND SERVICES WITHOUT REQUIRING PROXIMITY TO INDUSTRIAL OR EMPLOYMENT.

HEAVY LAND USES DUBLIN ALREADY HAS THE AMENITIES THATS RESIDENTS NEED.

BRIDGE PARK, SHOPPING CENTERS, GROCERY STORES, RESTAURANTS, HOTELS, PARKS, AND EMPLOYMENT CENTERS ARE ALL READILY ACCESSIBLE.

THE SUCCESS OF DUBLIN IS NOT DEPENDENT ON PLACING ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT OR INDUSTRIAL ORIENTED USES DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOODS.

WHAT MAKES BALANCE TRAY SPECIAL IS NOT WHAT IT LACKS BUT WHAT IT HAS PRESERVED.

IF ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS CONSIDERED IN THIS AREA, IT SHOULD REINFORCE, NOT ERODE THE SURROUNDING RESIDENTIAL CHARACTERS, PARKS, OPEN SPACES, TRAILS CONSERVATION AREAS, OR THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.

THOSE USES STRENGTHEN NEIGHBORHOODS EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL EDGE TRANSITIONS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THEM.

THE QUESTION BEFORE COUNCIL IS NOT WHETHER DUBLIN SHOULD GROW.

GROWTH IS INEVITABLE.

THE QUESTION IS WHAT KIND OF GROWTH PATTERN DUBLIN CHOOSES FOR THE LONG TERM? DO WE PRESERVE A CLEAR DISTINCTION BETWEEN ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS AND EMPLOYMENT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT? OR DO WE GRADUALLY BLUR THE DISTINCTION IN WAYS THAT PERMANENTLY CHANGE THE CHARACTER OF COMMUNITIES LIKE RE? I RESPECTFULLY URGE COUNSEL TO REJECT THE PROPOSED ID SIX.

REZONING DUBLIN'S REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE COMMUNITIES WAS BUILT ON THOUGHTFUL PLANNING AND A CONSISTENT COMMITMENT TO PROTECTING NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER.

THAT REPUTATION SHOULD NOT BE WEAKENED BY DECISIONS THAT SEEM INCREMENTAL TODAY, BUT ARE IRREVERSIBLE IN THEIR CUMULATIVE EFFECT.

PLEASE PROTECT THE CHARACTER OF BALANCE TRAY AND THE LONG-TERM INTEGRITY OF DUBLIN'S RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.

ONCE THOSE QUALITIES ARE LOST, THEY ARE DIFFICULT, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO RESTORE.

ONE FINAL COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE.

DEAR COUNSEL, PARDON ME, THIS IS FROM DAN MARE, 66 48.

KAREN LAU PLAYS DUBLIN, OHIO 4 3 0 1 6.

DEAR COUNSEL, NO ONE BEGRUDGES THE CITY'S ATTEMPT TO INCREASE THEIR TAX BASE.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT PEOPLE ARE LIVING RIGHT NEXT TO THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.

THE QUESTIONS YOU ALL SHOULD BE ASKING YOURSELVES ARE, ONE, WOULD I WANT THIS TYPE OF INDUSTRY NEAR MY HOUSE? AND TWO, WOULD I WANT THIS KIND OF TRAFFIC RIGHT OUTSIDE MY HOUSE? DUBLIN CREATED A MASTER PLAN SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BUT IT IS ONLY THAT A PLAN, IT COULD BE CHANGED TO ALLOW MINIMAL DISRUPTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE RESIDENTS OF BALANCE TRAY, FEEL LIKE POOR SISTERS OF DUBLIN AND FEEL THAT WE ARE BEING DUMPED ON WHEN SUCH THINGS WOULD NEVER BE CONSIDERED FOR THE MEREFIELD AREA OF OUR FAIR CITY.

ANYWAY, THINK OF THE PEOPLE FIRST AND DO NO HARM.

PLEASE CHOOSE WISELY.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

UM, WE HAVE SOME FOLKS SIGN IN.

SO AS A REMINDER, UH, THE TIMER WILL COME WHEN YOU STEP UP.

I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD A LOT OF, WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS TONIGHT.

UM, PLEASE LIMIT YOURSELF TO THREE MINUTES.

THE YELLOW LIGHT WILL BEGIN BLINKING WHEN YOUR TIME IS NEARLY UP, AND THEN THE RED LIGHT WILL COME ON WHEN YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED.

WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE AMPLE OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS.

SO PLEASE RESPECT THE TIME OF EVERYONE IN THE ROOM BY LIMITING YOUR COMMENTS TO THREE MINUTES.

LINDSAY, IF YOU WANNA CALL THE FIRST THAT HAS SIGNED IN AND IF YOU DID NOT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SIGN IN PRIOR TO THE MEETING, WE'LL CERTAINLY BE GLAD TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FOLKS THAT DID SIGN IN.

YES, RICK WEEKS HAD SIGNED IN TO SPEAK ON THIS TOPIC.

TIM MYERS, PLEASE COME.

PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

SHARE WITH US YOUR THOUGHTS.

THERE WE GO.

SMALL SCALE TRANSITIONAL TYPE BUSINESS, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE ROBOTICS OR AUTOMATION BECAUSE YOU'RE ONLY PRODUCING A SMALL AMOUNT OF GOODS AND THE COST PER UNIT WOULD BE PROHIBITIVE.

UH, TIM MYERS, 58 45 GLENDA COURT.

UM, JUST A COUPLE THINGS TO ADDRESS REGARDING THE DEFINITIONS OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING.

UH, THE DISTRICT INTENT IS FOR A SMALL SCALE, BUT IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING WE TALK ABOUT ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION AND A

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SO I WOULD REQUEST AGAIN THAT WE REMOVE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION FROM ADVANCED MANUFACTURING.

IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ANYBODY IN THE INDUSTRY TO BE SMALL SCALE YET INCLUDE THAT THE GENTLEMAN, UH, THE CONSULTANT, I'M SORRY I FORGOT HIS NAME, UH, MENTIONED INNOVATION AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW THINGS ARE GONNA CHANGE IN THE FUTURE.

I, I THINK THAT'S REALLY PARAMOUNT TO SOME OF THE RESIDENTS CONCERNS.

IF YOU ARE IN AN INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENT, YOU'RE GOING TO BE MAKING CHANGES.

YOU'RE GONNA BE DOING TRIAL AND ERROR, YOU'RE GOING TO BE CHANGING THE MATERIALS, CHEMICALS AND COMPOUNDS THAT YOU'RE USING TO TRY TO GET THE DESIRED RESULT.

THAT MAY BE FINE WHEN THAT BUSINESS COMES IN AND STARTS UP AND SAYS, THIS IS THE PROCESSES WE'RE GONNA USE, THE CHEMICALS WE'RE GOING TO USE, WE HAVE THE A RT OR WHOEVER'S GONNA REVIEW THAT AND SAY, YEAH, IT'S OKAY, BUT WHAT'S THE REVIEW PROCESS AFTER A YEAR, AFTER TWO YEARS, OR AFTER THREE YEARS OR AFTER FIVE YEARS? HOW DO ANY OF THE RESIDENTS NEARBY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON INSIDE OF THOSE BUSINESSES OUTSIDE OF THE FIRST YEAR WHEN THEY GET APPROVAL? THAT'S NOT CLEAR.

I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN RESPOND TO HELP US FEEL SAFE AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME.

IF THERE'S A PROCESS FOR THAT, I THINK WE'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS.

BUT TO DATE, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY'S FAMILIAR WITH THE LONGER TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF WHAT'S GOING ON INSIDE OF THOSE BUSINESSES.

AS I SAID BEFORE, THERE WILL BE UNINTENDED MANUFACTURING CONSEQUENCES.

THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

IF YOU LOOK AROUND, IT'S HARD TO FIND ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY THAT HAS INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING THIS CLOSE TO RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

CITIES CREATE INDUSTRIAL PARKS FOR A REASON.

THEY'RE REMOVED FROM RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

SO WHEN WE START TO LOOK AT WHAT'S IN NOT ONLY THE ENVISION DUBLIN PLAN BUT ALSO WITHIN THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN, THERE'S SOME REAL CONFLICTS IN THERE IN TERMS OF WHAT ENVISION DUBLIN SAYS, WHAT THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN OUTLINES AND WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO INCLUDE IN THESE CODE AMENDMENTS AND DISTRICT INTENT.

I WOULD SIMPLY ASK TO PLEASE CONSIDER THIS FROM ALL FACETS, NOT JUST FROM THE CODE LANGUAGE, BUT WHAT HAPPENS IN FIVE OR 10 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.

MOST OF YOU MAY NOT BE SITTING HERE, BUT WE'LL ALL BE LIVING THERE.

SO PLEASE CONSIDER THE RISKS.

THIS IS A RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND IT'S HARD FOR US TO FEEL THAT THE RISKS ARE REALLY BEING CONSIDERED.

AND I WILL SAY THERE HAS BEEN SOME GOOD PROGRESS MADE.

SO I DON'T WANNA MAKE IT SEEM THAT WAY.

WE'VE HAD SOME GOOD DISCUSSIONS WITH STAFF AND THE CONSULTANTS AND ALL THAT, BUT WE JUST NEED TO CONTINUE TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME, DOT A FEW MORE I'S CROSS A FEW MORE T'S AND MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN GO TO BED KNOWING THAT WE'RE SAFE AT NIGHT.

THANK YOU AND Z NEXT.

MADDIE MCDONALD, PLEASE COME FORWARD.

STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS UNDER THE RECORD.

MADDIE MCDONALD.

HI, MY NAME'S JEFF BRINER, 73 93 RINGS ROAD.

UM, I HAVE LIVED THERE.

MY WIFE AND I BOUGHT OUR HOUSE 25 YEARS AGO.

WE'RE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THIS WHOLE ID, WESTIN WID AREA.

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN RESIDENTIAL IN ALL THE PLANNING AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

AND DURING WE HAVE A 1920 BUILT FARMHOUSE.

IT'S A HISTORICAL TYPE HOMESTEAD.

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN SAID THAT THOSE AREAS WILL BE PROTECTED.

I DON'T FEEL LIKE HAVING INDUSTRIAL NEAR US IS GOING TO BE PROTECTING US.

THERE'S A DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO US WHICH WAS MENTIONED EARLIER.

THE PLAN FOR THAT HAS TUTTLE CROSSING EXTENSION GOING RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF OUR HOUSE.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW DUBLIN CAN SAY THAT THIS IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF ALL THE RESIDENTS THAT ALREADY ARE LIVING IN THOSE AREAS.

TO THE DRAFT CODE AMENDMENTS FOR THE AREA ALONG CAUSEWAY ROAD.

THANK YOU LINDSEY.

NEXT, OWEN O'BRIEN.

BRIAN, PLEASE STEP, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

HI, MY NAME IS MADDIE MCDONALD AND I LIVE AT 5 6 4 2 CASTLE LOOP.

MY BROTHER AND I SPOKE AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING THAT WAS HELD THIS TIME LAST YEAR ON JUNE 23RD, 2025.

AT THAT TIME, MY NEIGHBORS AND I SHARED OUR CONCERNS ABOUT PO POTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION OF A DATA CENTER IN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT.

SINCE THEN, I KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN UPDATES AND CHANGES

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I'M HERE TONIGHT TO ASK THAT YOU CONTINUE REFINING THAT CODE AND JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, I'M ALSO ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER CHANGING THE ZONING PROPOSALS THAT WILL IMPACT THE RESIDENTS ALONG FUTURE ROAD.

THEY DESERVE THE SAME RESPECT AND CONSIDERATION THAT YOU HAVE SO SHOWN TO THOSE OF US IN BALANCE RATE.

I'M ASKING THAT YOU DESIGNATE THE FUTURE ROAD CORRIDOR AS ID SIX BECAUSE DOING SO WOULD BETTER PROTECT THOSE RESIDENTS AND IT WOULD STRENGTHEN THE PROTECTIONS OF FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AS WELL.

AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, I KNOW I STILL HAVE A LOT TO LEARN ABOUT GOVERNMENT AND POLICY, BUT AS AN HONOR STUDENT AND A MEMBER OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL AT HILLIER DAVIDSON, I HAVE ALREADY LEARNED THAT INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND HONESTY MATTER.

I TRUST THAT AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS, YOU ALL HAVE THE SAME VALUES AND ETHICS AS IT RELATES TO THE SAFETY, HEALTH, AND WELLBEING OF OUR COMMUNITY.

TO ENSURE DUBLIN IS TRULY THE MOST SUSTAINABLE, MOST CONNECTED, AND MOST RESILIENT CITY.

SO I WANT TO ASK ALL OF YOU TONIGHT, CAN YOU CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT YOU'RE COMFORTABLE ALLOWING HEAVY INDUSTRIAL USES, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND POTENTIAL BIOHAZARDS, THIS CLOSE TO FAMILIES AND THE PREMIER SPORTS COMPLEX? THE CODE STILL NEEDS MORE MODIFICATIONS TO ENSURE THAT THE PROTECTIONS TRULY ALIGN WITH DUBLIN'S VISION OF BEING A SUSTAINABLE CITY WITH STRONG ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP.

MY REQUEST TONIGHT IS THE SAME AS IT WAS KEEP OUR COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SAFE.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

MY NAME IS OWEN O'BRIEN.

I LIVE AT 5 5 7 3 NEWTON MOORE PLACE IN BALANCE TREE AND I AM 11 YEARS OLD.

I WANT TO ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO CHANGE THE ZONING FOR THE AREA WE ARE DISCUSSING TONIGHT.

I LIVE VERY CLOSE TO COS GRAY, OR I LIVE CLOSE TO THE COS GRAY ENTRANCE TO RE I USE THE BIKE PATHS AND NEARBY SIDEWALKS ALL THE TIME WHEN I PLAY OUTSIDE OR GO TO A FRIEND'S HOUSE.

BUT I'M WORRIED ABOUT LARGE INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS BEING SO CLOSE TO OUR HOUSES.

UM, THIS WILL BRING IN HEAVY TRUCKS, TRAFFIC AND NOISE THAT WILL MAKE IT UNSAFE FOR KIDS THAT LIVE NEAR US.

I AM ALSO SAD TO LEARN ABOUT ALL THE POLLUTION THAT WOULD, THAT WE WOULD BE EXPOSED TO IF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WERE LESS THAN A MILE FROM, UH, OUR HOUSES.

MY DAD IS A TEACHER AND HE TEACHES ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE.

I LEARNED THAT BUILDINGS COULD BRING US A LOT OF AIR POLLUTION AND EVEN EXPOSURE TO TOXIC CHEMICALS.

WHAT IF THERE WAS A CHEMICAL LEAK OR ACCIDENT AND WE LIVE SO CLOSE? I ALSO DO NOT WANNA LOOK OUT MY WINDOW AT HOME AND SEE MANUFACTURING BUILDINGS, UTILITY GARAGES, AND TRUCKS.

WHEN I VISIT OTHER FRIENDS IN DUBLIN, THEY DO NOT HAVE TO LOOK AT INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS OUT THEIR WINDOW.

MOST DUBLIN HOUSES ARE CLOSE TO PAR, NICE PARKS, OFFICES AND OTHER BUILDINGS THAT ARE NOT UGLY, MESSY, AND DANGEROUS.

PLEASE VOTE TO CHANGE WITH THE CODES SO THAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CAN STAY SAFE AND NICE.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.

THANK YOU NC.

NEXT, JILLIAN COLLINS.

PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

THAT THOUGHT MAKES ME NERVOUS.

GOOD EVENING CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.

MY NAME IS JILLIAN COLLINS.

I LIVE AT 5 6 1 9 TY CASTLE LOOP.

I AM A 13, 13-YEAR-OLD EIGHTH GRADE HONORS STUDENT AT HILLIARD WEAVER MIDDLE SCHOOL.

I'M HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT ORDINANCE 33 26.

ON WEEKENDS AND EVENINGS, I LOVE GOING BIKE RIDING WITH MY DAD.

WE RIDE TOGETHER ON THE QUIET ROADS NEAR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, TALKING AND ENJOYING THE FRESH AIR.

THOSE MOMENTS ARE VERY, VERY SPECIAL TO ME.

BUT IF THIS ORDINANCE ALLOWS MORE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT NEARBY, OUR ROADS COULD FILL UP WITH MORE OR WITH MANY MORE SEMI-TRUCK.

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I, I WORRY ABOUT RIDING MY BIKE SAFELY WITH MY DAD WHEN LARGE TRUCKS ARE SPEEDING BY.

I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THOSE TIMES WITH MY DAD JUST BECAUSE I'M STAR SCARED.

MY SCHOOL BUS OR MY SCHOOL BUS DRIVES ON THOSE SAME ROADS EVERY SINGLE DAY.

IF THIS ORDINANCE ALLOWS MORE HEAVY SEMI-TRUCK, IT WILL MAKE THE RIDE VERY OR REALLY DANGEROUS FOR ALL THE KIDS ON THE BUS.

I WORK SO HARD EVERY MORNING TO SAVE FOCUS AND GET TO SCHOOL SAFELY SO I CAN DO MY BEST IN MY CLASSES.

WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO FACE EVEN BIGGER RISK? JUST TRYING TO GET AN EDUCATION.

MY MOM SHOWED ME A MAP AT THE AREA WHERE THE INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WOULD BE BUILT.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY RISKS LIKE THIS WOULD BE PLACED NEXT TO A PARK WHERE KIDS PLAY SPORTS.

THAT'S WHERE YOU RUN AROUND, HAVE GAMES AND JUST BE KIDS.

IT SHOULDN'T BE, IT SHOULDN'T FEEL DANGEROUS TO PLAY OUTSIDE.

I'M ALSO WORRIED ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.

WAREHOUSES AND FACTORIES CAN MEET EVEN MORE AIR POLLUTION AND CONSTANT NOISE, WHICH WOULD CHANGE THE CLEAN, PEACEFUL, COMMUNI, COMMUNICATE, OR COMMUNITY WE ALL HAVE OR WE ALL LOVE.

DUBLIN SHOULD STAY A GREAT PLACE FOR FAMILIES AND KIDS TO GROW UP.

I RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT YOU REQUEST CITY STAFF TO SPEND MORE TIMES CLARIFYING THE CODE, THE CODE LANGUAGE.

PLEASE MAKE SURE IT PROTECTS OUR SAFELY SAFETY, OUR AIR QUALITY IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE WE LEARN OR WE LIVE AND PLAY.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY VOICE AS A YOUNG PERSON IN OUR COMMUNITY.

THANK YOU, LINDSAY.

NEXT, TARA ROWE.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

HI, MY NAME IS TARA ROWE.

I LIVE AT 57 49 TRAFALGAR LANE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE LAND THAT IS PLANNED TO BE ZONED INDUSTRIAL.

I'VE SPOKEN SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE, BUT TONIGHT MY OLDEST SON, CLARK, IS HERE WITH ME, CLARK WAVE .

SINCE BEFORE HE WAS BORN, I WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS HEALTH AND SAFETY.

CLARK WAS DELIVERED VIA EMERGENCY C-SECTION AT DUBLIN METHODIST HOSPITAL.

NO ONE CAN EVER CONVINCE ME THAT THAT HOSPITAL CAN'T HANDLE EMERGENCIES.

I'M FOREVER INDEBTED TO THE DOCTORS AND NURSES AND STAFF THAT CARED FOR HIM AND ME.

HIS FIRST NIGHT WE SLEPT APART.

HE AND THE NICU AND I IN THE ICU, HIS HEALTH WAS MY TOP PRIORITY.

AT HIS ONE YEAR APPOINTMENT, OUR PEDIATRICIAN ASKED US TO HEAD TO DUBLIN'S NATION, CHIL NATIONWIDE, CHILDREN'S CLOSE TO HOME FOR A QUICK HEAD ULTRASOUND, TO DOUBLE CHECK SOMETHING.

THE NEXT DAY WE WERE FAST TRACKED THE C CRANIOFACIAL DIVISION OF NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

ONE OF HIS, ONE OF HIS SOFT SPOTS HAD GONE TOO HARD, HARD TOO SOON, A CONDITION CALLED CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS AND WE WERE TOLD THAT HE WOULD NEED EXTENSIVE HEAD SURGERY WITHIN THREE MONTHS OR HE WOULD DIE AT JUST UNDER 15 MONTHS.

HE UNDERWENT AN EXTENSIVE SIX HOUR SURGERY WITH A NEUROSURGEON AND A CRANIO DOCTOR WORKING HAND IN HAND.

THOSE SIX DAYS IN RECOVERY AT THE HOSPITAL WERE SOME OF THE LONGEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.

HIS HEALTH WAS MY TOP PRIORITY.

A LITTLE AFTER A YEAR OF LEARNING OF THE PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL ZONING.

I STAND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT ASKING YOU TO MAKE HIS HEALTH ALONG WITH THE REST OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD'S HEALTH.

YOUR TOP PRIORITY.

I INCLUDE IN NEIGHBORHOOD OUR NEW FRIENDS ON HUARD ROAD, ALTHOUGH NOT IN DUBLIN, THEY WILL ALSO BE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY WHAT GOES ON THIS LAND.

THE CODE BEFORE YOU DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH TO MAKE ME FEEL COMFORTABLE IN KNOWING THAT OUR HEALTH WILL BE PRIORITIZED.

AND I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WANNA KEEP THINGS FLEXIBLE TO SEE WHAT COMPANIES MAY BE INTERESTED, BUT THEN THERE NEEDS TO BE A WAY TO REVIEW THOSE COMPANY'S SAFETY PROCEDURES BEFORE THEY'RE ALLOWED TO BUILD, MAKING THEIR APPLICATION CONDITIONAL SO THAT THERE CAN BE SOME OVERSIGHT IN THE PROCESS.

PLEASE EITHER MAKE CONDIT ADDITIONAL CHANGES TO THE CODE TO ENSURE OUR SAFETY OR MAKE APPLICATIONS CONDITIONAL SO THAT THE DETAILS, ONCE YOU KNOW WHO'S INTERESTED, CAN BE PROPERLY REVIEWED.

AND WHAT'S THE PLAN FOR ONGOING OVERSIGHT? AS TIM MENTIONED, IT SHOULDN'T BE TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR WHAT WOULD BE THE ONLY INDUSTRIAL AREA IN DUBLIN BUILT DIRECTLY NEXT TO A LARGE NEIGHBORHOOD.

PLEASE MAKE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD'S HEALTH YOUR TOP PRIORITY AS YOU'RE CONSIDERING THIS LAND'S USE.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

UH, DAN HAMEL, 5 7 2 5 TRAFALGAR NAME, UH, TRAFALGAR LANE.

UH, IS ANOTHER LAYER OF PROTECTION.

I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS AGAIN THE PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE ON MAY 21ST THAT APPROVED THE ID SIX CODE LANGUAGE THAT WAS SENT TO YOU TONIGHT FOR THE FIRST READING.

AS I'VE STATED PREVIOUSLY HERE, THE ID SIX CODE LANGUAGE REMAINS TOO VAGUE AND TOO AMBIGUOUS, AND IT DOES NOT PROTECT ADJACENT RESIDENTS TO RE AND HUARD ROAD.

UH, THAT'S STILL THE CASE TODAY.

EVEN WITH THE CHANGES THAT WERE IMPLEMENTED, RESIDENTS CONTINUE TO ASK FOR THE FOLLOWING.

OBVIOUSLY WE STILL WANT RESIDENTIAL OFFICES OR PARKS, BUT IF WE CAN'T HAVE THAT CHANGING ADVANCED MANUFACTURING R AND D, WAREHOUSING, WHOLESALING, UH, TO CONDITIONAL AS OPPOSED TO PERMITTED,

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YOU GUYS HAVE A HISTORY OF DOING THAT IN APRIL, 2025 WHEN YOU DID THAT WITH DATA CENTERS.

OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE NOT ON THE TABLE ANYMORE, BUT YOU UNANIMOUSLY VOTED TO HAVE DATA CENTERS BE CONDITIONAL.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR HERE.

UH, WE WANT STRONGER GUIDELINES TO PROHIBIT TOXIC BYPRODUCTS OF MANUFACTURING WASTE STREAMS AS A RESULT OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING.

HAZARDOUS RAW INPUTS, UH, CLEARLY DEFINED HOURS OF OPERATION, PARAMETERS FOR SHIPPING AND RECEIVING, AND STRONGER GUIDELINES FOR LIGHT NOISE POLLUTION FROM FACILITY OPERATIONS, SEMI-TRUCK TRAFFIC, UH, INCLUDING WITH SPECIFIC CURFEWS THAT REDUCE THE CURRENT 50% LIGHTING REDUCTION ONE HOUR AFTER CLOSING, OR BY 11:00 PM TO HAVE IT ALL REDUCED BY 8:00 PM.

UH, AFTER RESIDENTS ADDRESSED THESE SAFETY CONCERNS AT THE PNZ MEETING, THE DELIBERATIONS PORTION TOOK PLACE.

UH, COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER ASKED ATTORNEY BOGGS, HOW WOULD THE P AND Z PROCEED IF WE WANTED TO MODIFY ID SIX? AND THE ANSWER SAYS, YOU COULD DO, UH, CONDITIONS AND SENT TO COUNSEL, BUT THEN HE PRESSED, IF WE VOTED TO MOVE IT FORWARD, WOULD IT EVER COME BACK? NO, IT WOULDN'T.

WE WANTED TO GO BACK TO P AND Z.

UH, COMMISSIONER GARVIN THOUGHT IT MADE SENSE TO KICK ANYTHING BACK TO P AND Z FOR REVIEW THAT THEY HADN'T CONSIDERED.

COMMISSIONER NEWELL AGREED AND SAID THE CODE WAS SILENT ON BO BIOHAZARDS.

COMMISSIONER HARDER AGREED AND STATED, WE NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE CONVERSATION ABOUT THINGS.

AGAIN, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.

COMMISSIONER DAMER ASKED IF THERE ARE ANY TIME LIMITS TO ATTORNEY BOGGS, AT WHICH HE SAID, NO, THERE'S NOT.

I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE TRYING TO RAM THIS THROUGH.

LET'S GET IT RIGHT.

UH, COMMISSIONER DAMER WAS ALSO SUPPORTIVE OF POSTPONING A VOTE TO SEE BETTER THEIR BIO HANDLE, THEIR LANGUAGE.

HOWEVER, COMMISSIONER WAY, UH, WAS WORRIED THAT WE WOULD NEVER GET TO YOU GUYS.

SO HE ASKED FOR THREE CHANGES.

AND THEN ONCE THOSE CHANGES WERE SENT, COMMISSIONER WAY TOOK A STRAW POLL.

IT WAS THREE THREE DEADLOCK AT THAT POINT.

A 10 MINUTE RECESS TOOK PLACE AND THE CODE WAS REWRITTEN ON THE FLY IN 10 MINUTES.

MANY DIFFERENT COLORS.

FRANKLY, IT LOOKED LIKE CODE BY CRAYOLA TO THE VIEWERS AT HOME AND IN ATTENDANCE.

WE'VE HAD NINE MONTHS TO GET THIS RIGHT AND THERE WERE CONCERNS BY P AND Z MEMBERS AND FROM RESIDENTS ON MAY 21ST.

WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THE VERY NON, UH, PUBLIC DELIBERATIONS, DELIBERATIONS SENT LED BY COMMISSIONER WAY, UH, FROM BEING DEADLOCKED TO A A FIVE ONE VOTE TO MOVE IT FORWARD.

NO ONE IN THE COMMUNITY WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS ANY OF THESE NEW ON THE FLY CHANGES.

WE'RE ASKING FOR YOU TO SEND IT BACK TO P AND Z OR AT LEAST MAKE IT CONDITIONAL SO THEY HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THINGS.

I KNOW YOU ALREADY SPOKE, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WANTED TO SPEAK AGAIN.

TODD HEMMER, 5 8 2 4 HOCHI ROAD.

UH, A COUPLE OF THE IDEAS THAT I HAD ORIGINALLY WERE ABOUT, UH, TRAIN QUIET ZONES AND SO FAR THAT HAS NOT HAD ANY, UH, MOMENTUM HAVING THE QUIET ZONES CREATED.

SO I'D LIKE TO URGE STAFF ALSO TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT WITH THE DIFFERENT AGENCIES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY AND, UM, ALSO WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.

AT THE SAME TIME, I ALSO MADE A REQUEST TO ELIMINATE, UH, THE TRAIN, UH, SPURS.

SO IF YOU KNOW A SPUR LOOKS LIKE IT CAN BE A BIG HUGE DEPOT, AND AS TRAINS UNHOOK AND DECOUPLE, THERE ARE VERY, VERY LOUD BOOMS. SO YOU CAN IMAGINE IF THAT'S ON BOTH SIDES OF THE, UH, TRACKS, THAT CAN BE VERY, VERY DISRUPTIVE TO BOTH THE INDUSTRY IF IT'S THERE, OR SPECIAL RESIDENTS.

SO PLEASE LOOK AT THE OVERALL TRAIN SITUATION, A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL.

AND OF COURSE LIKE TO URGE, YOU KNOW, VERY AGAIN, UH, TONIGHT TO ASK STAFF TO REALLY LOOK AT THE ID SIX APPLICATION TO HOARD ROAD.

IF IT DOESN'T GET, YOU KNOW, PUSHED BACK TO STAFF TO BE LOOKED AT, UH, NEXT TIME YOU'LL READ IT IN JULY 1ST.

IT'LL LOOK THE EXACT SAME WAY IT'S TODAY.

AND ID THREE WOULD BE STILL ON THE TABLE FOR HOARD ROAD, WHICH IS WE FEEL UNACCEPTABLE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU, LINDSAY.

NEXT, SAMAYA HAMAD.

MAD WELCOME.

PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

HELLO, MY NAME IS SAMAYA HAMAD.

I LIVE AT SIX A THREE ZERO BARMORE WAY.

UH, AT IN RE SO I'M A RESEARCH SCIENTIST AT OSU.

I'M ALSO DOING MY MBA AT OSU AND ONE OF THE CLASSES I'M TAKING THIS SUMMER IS CALLED REAL ESTATE VALUATION.

AND IN OUR LAST CLASS DISCUSSION, INTERESTINGLY THE PROFESSOR WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW THE SUBURBS OF COLUMBUS SAVED THE CITY FROM THE DOOM AND GLOOM THAT AFFECTED OTHER CITIES LIKE DENVER POST COVID.

AND HE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED WHAT DUBLIN IS DOING.

SO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO TO SAVE THE ECONOMY.

HOWEVER, I'M HERE TODAY TO SAY THAT THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING AT THE EXPENSE OF RESIDENTS INTEREST.

WHEN I MENTIONED TO PROFESSOR STOCKPORT THAT WHAT THE ZONING IS ACROSS, YOU KNOW, FROM COS GRAY IS DOING, IS PREVENTING DATA CENTERS AND ALLOWING ADVANCED MANUFACTURING.

HE ALMOST LAUGHED AT ME 'CAUSE HE SAID ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IS MUCH WORSE

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AND THE RESIDENTS MIGHT BE MUCH BETTER OFF ACCEPTING DATA CENTERS INSTEAD OF MANUFACTURING.

SO THAT'S WHY I'M HERE TODAY.

I AM HERE TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU ARE HERE TO PRESENT THE INTEREST OF THE CONSTITUENTS AND RE RESIDENTS ARE PART OF YOUR CONSTITUENCY.

RE IS TIRED OF BEING TREATED AS THE BLACK SHEEP OF DUBLIN.

THEY HAVE BEEN HERE DAY AND NIGHT.

ALTHOUGH I'M LATE TO THE GAME.

I ONLY CAME 'CAUSE I HEARD THIS FROM THE PROFESSOR.

BUT I BEAR WITNESS TO HOW MUCH EFFORT, MONEY, TIME, AND ORGANIZATION THOSE FOLKS HAVE BEEN PUTTING INTO THIS.

AND IT SHOULD NOT TAKE THAT MUCH FOR YOU TO LISTEN TO THEIR CONCERNS.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

UH, MY NAME IS LEANNE OMA.

I LIVE AT 5 5 8 9 NEWTON MOORE PLACE.

SO I'M A DUBLIN RESIDENT, A BALANCE TREE RESIDENT, BUT I'M ALSO A COLLEGE STUDENT.

I CHOSE TO LIVE AT HOME DURING COLLEGE BECAUSE I VALUE DUBLIN SAFE, QUIET, AND RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE COMMUNITY THAT I GREW UP IN.

THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL TO RECONSIDER ORDINANCE 33 DASH 26 AND THE PLACEMENT OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE.

DATA CENTERS AND RESEARCH USES SO CLOSE TO NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE RE AS AN ENGINEERING STUDENT, I UNDERSTAND HOW MANUFACTURING CENTERS OPERATE.

I'VE SHADOWED AND TALKED TO MANY ENGINEERS THAT WORK IN THIS INDUSTRY.

THESE CENTERS HAVE CONSTANT POWER DEMANDS LARGE COOLING SYSTEMS, AND THEY RE THEY RELY ON BACKUP DIESEL GENERATORS.

THESE FACILITIES ARE NOT AS TIGHTLY RESTRICTED IN PRACTICE AS MANY PEOPLE ASSUME, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO NOISE OUTPUT EMISSIONS DURING GENERATION USE AND LARGE SCALE WATER AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION.

AT THIS POINT, I HAVE TO ASK THE COUNCIL DIRECTLY, WOULD YOU STILL CONSIDER APPROVING THIS REZONING IF IT WAS IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? BECAUSE THIS IS IN MY OWN BACKYARD.

AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE, THIS IS NOT A SMALL DECISION MADE AT A COUNCIL MEETING.

IT'S OUR EVERYDAY LIFE.

AND IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE THE ANSWER BEING YES, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT THIS WOULD BE THE ONLY INDUSTRIAL SCALE, UH, YOUTH CENTER PLACED SO CLOSELY TO RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS IN DUBLIN.

CONCERNS ABOUT CONSTANT NOISE, TRUCK TRAFFIC, WATER USAGE, AND AIR POLLUTION FROM BACKUP GENERATORS.

AND THE LONG-TERM HEALTH IMPACTS STILL REMAIN UNRESOLVED.

A RULE OF BUSHES AND TREES WILL NOT BE SOLVING THIS ISSUE.

STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT LONG-TERM EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE, TORU, INDUSTRIAL NOISE AND AIR POLLUTION CAN NEGATIVELY AFFECT STRESS LEVELS.

SLEEP AND OVERALL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT SHOULD NOT COMPROMISE THE LIVES OF FAMILIES WHO LIVE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.

ECONOMIC GROWTH IS IMPORTANT, BUT RESIDENTS DESERVE CLEAR AND STRONGER PROTECTIONS BEFORE PROJECTS LIKE THIS MOVE FORWARD.

PLEASE PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE WHO ALREADY LIVE HERE AND KEEP LARGE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AWAY FROM RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES.

THANK YOU LINDSAY.

NEXT CHRISTIAN COONEY, PLEASE COMPORT AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

WHO, I'M SORRY.

CHRISTIAN COONEY.

YOU KNOW, THIS SEEMS JUST BECOMING A RECURRING THEME.

I THINK WE'VE BEEN AT THIS FOR A YEAR.

I DON'T CAN'T REMEMBER THE ANYONE COMING UP AND SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF THIS EXCEPT FOR COUNCILMAN E KEELER.

HE SAID THAT WE NEEDED IT FOR THE ECONOMIC, FUTURE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF THE CITY, THE SAFETY OF THE CITY, THE WHOLE BIT.

I DON'T SEE IT.

ROOFS ARE TOO, ROOFS COST MONEY.

BUT YET IN AVERY CROSSING, WE'RE LOOKING AT 12 UNITS AN ACRE THAT THE CITY'S GONNA PUT IN LOOKING AT PUTTING IN APARTMENT BUILDINGS.

IT JUST SEEMS THAT THE CITY'S TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO ACTUALLY WANTS THIS, WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS TO GET THIS? AND THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE COMMENTS I WAS GONNA MAKE TONIGHT.

UM, ANOTHER COMMENT.

WE ARE DOWNWIND OF THIS PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL SITE.

THE PREVAILING WINDS IN DUBLIN ARE FROM THE WEST.

YOU HAVE A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF REAL ESTATE THAT IS IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THOSE, OF ALL OF THAT INDUSTRIAL THAT YOU'RE PUTTING IN.

IT IS LUDICROUS, BUT THAT'S NOT THE COMMENTS I WANNA MAKE TONIGHT.

THE COMMENT I WANNA MAKE TONIGHT IS ABOUT THIS ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW TEAM , THIS IS THE THING THAT EVERYONE'S OVERLOOKING.

SO THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW TEAM, PER THE CODE, WHICH YOU GUYS ARE WRITING, IS THAT THESE DECISIONS ARE GONNA BE MADE BY CITY STAFF.

NONE OF THESE DECISIONS ARE GONNA GO TO PLANNING AND ZONING AND THEY'RE NOT GONNA COME IN FRONT OF YOU.

YOU ARE GONNA ABROGATE THIS AS LONG AS IT MEETS THE CODE.

CITY

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STAFF IS MAKING THE DECISIONS.

AT THE LAST PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING, THERE WAS THIS GREAT COMMENT AND HE WAS LIKE, PLANNING AND ZONING ASKED, WELL, WHEN ARE WE GONNA KNOW WHAT GOT APPROVED? AND CITY STAFF WAS LIKE, WE'LL LET YOU KNOW, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT.

IT WAS APPALLING.

SO THIS THIS ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW TEAM, IIII GOT CHAT, I GOT, I GOT PULLED UP SHORT AT THE, AT THE PLANNING ZONING MEETING.

AND THEY SAID, WELL THIS TEAM EXISTS.

IT'S BEEN IN OPERATIONS.

AND SO I WENT ONTO THE WEBSITE, I LOOKED AT EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN ON THE AGENDA FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.

WELL, ALL OF 26, ALL 25.

THERE IS NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE THAT THEY HAVE APPROVED, THAT THEY HAVE REVIEWED.

IT'S ALL BEEN TRIVIAL.

THINGS LIKE SIGNAGE ON THE SIDE OF A BUILDING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

IT HASN'T HAD ANYTHING OF TO DO WITH APPROVING INDUSTRIAL SITES WITHOUT OVERSIGHT OF PLANNING AND ZONING OR COUNCIL.

THIS IS SOMETHING THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE A CORE COMPETENCY TO DO AND YET THEY'RE GONNA TURN IT OVER IN THE CODE.

IT'S A REQUIREMENT THAT IT'S GETS APPROVED IN 25 DAYS OR THE, THE REASON IT DIDN'T GET APPROVED GET SENT TO THE DEVELOPER.

NOW AT RHOA, IF THEY DON'T APPROVE SOMETHING IN 30 DAYS, IT'S AUTO-APPROVED.

SO I DUNNO HOW IT WORKS.

AND THEN IT'S JUST A LUDICROUS PROCESS.

SO THE MEMBERSHIP, IT CAN BE THE DESIGNATES OR IT CAN BE THESE DEPARTMENT HEADS OR THEIR DESIGNATE.

IT WOULD SEEM IF YOU'RE, IF THESE PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE APPROVING INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD WANT TO HAVE, HERE ARE THE REQUIRED, UM, HERE ARE THE REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS OF THESE PEOPLE.

THEY SAID IN THE NOTE THAT IF WE NEED SOMEONE, A SPECIALIST TO COME IN, WE'LL GO GET THEM.

WELL, I DON'T KNOW IN WHAT WORLD, A PROCESS THAT HAS 25 DAYS TO BE APPROVED.

SOMEONE'S GONNA LOOK AT AN APPLICATION, LOOK AT IT AND GO, OH, WE NEED AN EXPERT.

FIND AN EXPERT WHO'S AVAILABLE, WHO'S THEN GONNA BE ABLE TO COME INTO TO REVIEW THE DOCUMENT AND THEN GIVE AN OPINION IN 25 DAYS.

I'M OVER THE TIME AND I APOLOGIZE.

UM, YEAH, THIS PROCESS IS, IS ABSOLUTELY FLAWED.

I'M, I'M IN FAVOR OF A PROCESS.

IT MEANS WE DON'T HAVE TO COME HERE EVERY COUPLE MONTHS AND GO THROUGH THIS SAME NONSENSE.

BUT FOR GOD'S SAKES, YOU GUYS HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT PROCESS MAKES SENSE.

THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE MAKING THOSE DECISIONS AND THAT IT'S SOMETHING THAT 'CAUSE ONCE IT'S FIRE AND FORGET ONCE THIS THING'S APPROVED, YOU WILL NEVER SEE THESE APPLICATIONS AGAIN.

THANK YOU LINDSAY.

NEXT S KWA, WELCOME.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

HELLO, MY NAME IS SMA KWA AND I LIVE AT 6 8 3 0 BARONS MOWAY.

I WANTED TO SPEAK BECAUSE I'VE SEEN FIRSTHAND WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN COMMUNITIES PRIORITIZE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OVER OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.

I PREVIOUSLY LIVED NEAR AN AREA WHERE AMAZON DATA CENTERS WERE BUILT.

THEY CHANGED THE CHARACTER OF THE COMMUNITY AND INCREASED TRAFFIC, WHICH IS WHY MY FAMILY AND MANY OF MY NEIGHBORS DECIDED TO MOVE.

MY FAMILY CHOSE TO MOVE TO DUBLIN BECAUSE OF ITS QUIET, PEACEFUL, AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT.

THE QUALITY OF LIFE IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT MAKES THE CITY OF DUBLIN UNIQUE.

WHAT CONCERNS ME ABOUT REZONING FARMLAND FOR MANUFACTURING IS THAT THROWING THIS LAND AWAY FOR ECONOMIC GAIN WILL BRING NOTHING TO THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

IF YOU STILL SERIOUSLY BELIEVE REZONING IS NECESSARY INSTEAD OF FACTORIES, I THINK THE COUNCIL SHOULD AT LEAST FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT THAT SERVES OUR CITY DIRECTLY, SUCH AS LOCAL BUSINESSES, RESTAURANTS, PARKS, AND OTHER SPACES THAT PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY USE AND ENJOY.

I HOPE THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF THIS DECISION AND WHETHER THIS IS WHAT THEIR RESIDENTS WANT TO SEE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND PATIENCE.

THANK YOU NC NEXT, NO ONE ELSE HAS SIGNED IN.

UH, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK THAT PERHAPS DID NOT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SIGN IN? PLEASE COME FORWARD IF YOU'D STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

CAROLINE ALI, 5 7 7 0, SHANNON PLACE, LANE.

UM, THANK YOU COUNCIL PEOPLE AND REGULAR PEOPLE.

I AM ACTUALLY FROM NEW JERSEY AND I MOVED TO, UM, OHIO FOR SCHOOL IN 2018.

UM, TO GO TO ATHENS AND I ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING PREPARED 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A THING TO SPEAK AT THESE.

BUT I WOULD SAY THAT THE ONE THING THAT BROUGHT ME TO ATHENS AND TO OHIO IS

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THE COUNTRY.

BECAUSE I GREW UP IN A VERY INDUSTRIAL PART OF NEW JERSEY AND, UM, COMING TO ATHENS AND SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN CHILLICOTHE WHERE MY EX-FIANCE IS FROM.

BUT REGARDLESS, THAT WAS MY HOME FOR A LONG TIME.

AND I'VE COME TO LEARN THAT YOU CAN'T BUY NATURE AND YOU CAN'T BUY.

UM, UNIVERSE CREATED THINGS PEOPLE CAN CREATE, WHETHER IT'S ABOUT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES OR DATA CENTERS.

UM, I'M A LITTLE NERVOUS, UM, PEOPLE, THEY CREATE THOSE, BUT THE UNIVERSE CREATES THE NATURE AND THERE'S SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL.

SO WHETHER IT'S WITHIN DUBLIN OR WHETHER IT'S WITHIN OHIO, UM, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE.

AND PLEASE CORRECT ME IF THIS IS LIKE NOT APPROPRIATE OR NOT, UM, LEGAL, BUT I ACTUALLY HAVE A PETITION FOR THE OHIO CONSTITUTION FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN SIGNING TO CONSTITUTIONALLY BAN DATA CENTERS OVER 25 MEGAWATTS IN THE STATE OF OHIO.

SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN SIGNING THAT OR IT BEING ADDED TO THE NOVEMBER BALLOT, PLEASE FIND ME IN THE LOBBY.

ANYONE ELSE CARE TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS? OKAY.

HEARING NONE.

OH, WE'VE GOT A LATE RISER BACK THERE.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

MY NAME'S MATTHEW LANG HOUSE.

I LIVE AT 5 7 3 3 TRAFALGAR LANE.

I HAD NO PLANS ON SAYING ANYTHING TONIGHT, BUT WHILE I WAS LISTENING I JUST TYPED INTO GOOGLE COMMUNITIES DESTROYED BY INDUSTRY REZONING JUST TO SEE WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION I COULD GET.

AND I DON'T LIKE AI, BUT THE AI OVERVIEW CAME UP.

THESE ARE WHAT CAME UP.

BOULEVARD PARK IN BUR IN WASHINGTON, NORTH TYLER IN TYLER, TEXAS, DUBLIN, DUBLIN, OHIO, HARMONY MEADOWS, NORTH CAROLINA, BONNE PALM COAST, FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA.

NOW, WHEN I READ THROUGH THESE, I SEE LITTLE WRITE-UPS THAT SAY HOW THE CITIZENS, UH, ROSE UP.

AND THEN THESE PARTICULAR, UH, CITIES VOTED DOWN THE RECLASSIFICATION AND REZONING.

SO PERHAPS IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO TAKE A STEP BACK BECAUSE WE ALL TEND TO GET DOWN INTO THE WEEDS AND INTO THE DUST WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR OWN LITTLE COMMUNITY IN THIS TINY LITTLE SPOT OF OHIO.

BUT I'M SEEING ALL OF THESE OTHER COMMUNITIES AND FRANKLY IT SHOCKED ME WHEN I SAW THAT DUBLIN, OHIO MADE THE LIST OF COMMUNITIES DESTROYED BY INDUSTRY REZONING.

IT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

AND REALLY THAT'S JUST WHAT I WANTED TO BRING UP.

AND I REALLY DO KIND OF HOPE THAT WHEN THIS WRITEUP FOR DUBLIN, OHIO COMES TO AN END, THAT IT ALSO SAYS THAT THE CITY'S PLANS TO REZONE WERE VOTED DOWN.

SO I WOULD SAY THANK YOU, BUT I'M GONNA SAY THANK YOU WHEN IT'S DESERVED.

AND I THINK I'LL SAY THANK YOU WHEN I HEAR THAT, UH, THIS ID SIX IS VOTED DOWN OR DEFINITELY MORE NARROWLY UH, DEFINED.

ANYONE ELSE CARE TO SHARE THOUGHTS? YEAH, MY NAME IS ZAINA ABU.

I LIVE AT 5 5 8 9 NEWTON MORE PLACE AND I'M A STUDENT AT HILLARD DAVIDSON.

AND I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS MY MAIN CONCERN BEING THAT I TAKE COS GREAT ROAD TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY.

SO, AND IT'S ALREADY LIKE A BUSY ROAD AS IS.

SO I'M JUST CONCERNED THAT WITH THESE MANUFACTURING SITES IT MIGHT BE LIKE EVEN MORE BUSY WHEN I GO TO SCHOOL.

AND AS A NEW DRIVER IT IS PRETTY STRESSFUL TAKING THAT ROAD 'CAUSE IT'S ALREADY LIKE, PRETTY BUSY.

SO I'M JUST CONCERNED THAT IT MIGHT LIKE MAKE ME LATE TO SCHOOL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

'CAUSE GOING OUT TAKES A WHILE WITH ALL THE TRAFFIC AND WITH THESE MANUFACTURING SITES, IT'LL ADD THE EXTRA TRAFFIC.

THAT'S MY MAIN CONCERN.

ANYONE ELSE? OKAY, WE WILL MOVE ON TO COUNCIL QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION.

WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO START US OFF? WENDY? I GUESS I'LL GO FIRST.

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THANK YOU FOR THE RESIDENCE.

I CAME AND SPOKE TONIGHT.

I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OWEN.

NICE JOB, OWEN.

UM, I THINK THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS IT'S BEEN VERY IMPORTANT THAT, THAT YOU STAY ENGAGED AND CONTINUE TO BRING YOUR CONCERNS TO CITY STAFF.

AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK CITY STAFF FOR LISTENING AND WORKING SO DILIGENTLY TO TRY TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION THAT WILL WORK FOR THE MAJORITY.

WITH THAT BEING SAID, ZACH, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS, IF YOU DON'T MIND.

UM, NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER.

SO LET ME SEE IF I CAN MAKE THIS A LITTLE MORE COHESIVE THEN IT MIGHT EVENTUALLY COME OUT.

UM, READING THROUGH THE CODE, I'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH THE CODE, UM, THE RED LINES AND THE BLUE LINES.

AND I HAVE SOME SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO ADDRESS, WHETHER JUST WITH ANSWERS OR POTENTIAL CHANGES, UM, NO MEASURABLE INCREASE.

SO WE USE THAT TERM THROUGHOUT THE CODE.

WE USE SOME SUBJECTIVE STANDARDS, WORDS THAT I WOULD FEEL ARE A LITTLE MORE SUBJECTIVE, MINIMIZE EXPECTED, NORMALLY PERCEPTIBLE.

UM, I UNDERSTAND THE DESIRE TO STAY FLEXIBLE, BUT I WONDER WHEN WE SAY NO MEASURABLE INCREASE, WHAT ARE WE COMPARING THAT TO? WHERE, WHERE IS THE BASELINE? AND IF WE DON'T HAVE A BASELINE, HOW WOULD WE ESTABLISH A BASELINE COUNCIL MEMBER THAT WAS, UH, ACTUALLY A SUGGESTION BY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.

THAT WAS, THAT WAS WHY IT'S IN, IN RED LINES.

AND I THINK THE BASELINE IS WHAT EXISTS NOW THAT THERE IS NO MEASURABLE INCREASE FROM, UH, ANY EMISSIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY OCCURRING THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

SO WOULD WE, WOULD WE THEN RECOMMEND WHEN A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION CAME FORWARD THAT TESTING IS CONDUCTED AT THAT POINT? OR DO WE CONDUCT TESTING NOW? I MEAN, THERE'S A POSSIBILITY THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE IN THE ENVIRONMENT, RIGHT WHEN WE HAVE OTHER DEVELOPMENTS LIKE FIN WHICH HAS PERMITS FOR, FOR DIFFERENT EMISSIONS.

BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE A BASELINE, I GUESS I QUESTION HOW WE WOULD EVER BE ABLE TO ENFORCE NO INCREASES OR NO IMPACT FROM A DEVELOPMENT.

SO, GOOD QUESTION.

SO FIRST OF ALL, THE, THE WAY THAT LANGUAGE IS SET UP IN THAT SECTION, IT'S, IT'S PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROCESS.

SO WHEN THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN COMES IN, IT'S ON, IT'S THE BURDEN OF THE APPLICANT TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE STAFF'S SATISFACTION, THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM'S SATISFACTION THAT THERE IS NO MEASURABLE INCREASE IN ANY MISSIONS FROM WHAT IS THERE AT THE CURRENT TIME.

IS THAT A PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT PACKET? LIKE I'VE NEVER SEEN A DEVELOPMENT PACKET, SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO PRODUCE FOR US.

RIGHT.

SO MAYBE ZACH, YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT PACKET? YES.

SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT AS PART OF THE ID SIX SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE ADDING IN THAT REQUIREMENT THAT, UM, THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR USE AND THEIR OPERATIONS THAT ARE GOING TO, UM, CONFIRM THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DO THESE THINGS.

SO WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, AGAIN, THAT IS UP TO ANY INDIVIDUAL USER THAT IS GONNA BE LOOKING AT COMING TO THE AREA.

SO IT'S NOT, I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA LOOK THE SAME FOR EVERYBODY, IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT THEIR BUSINESS MODEL LOOKS LIKE.

AGAIN, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE INTRODUCING WITH THIS.

SO, UM, THESE BUSINESSES DO UNDERSTAND AT LEAST WHAT THEIR MODEL SHOULD, WHAT MODEL'S GONNA BE, AND WE'RE GONNA REQUIRE ALL THAT INFORMATION UPFRONT BEFORE WE, IT EVEN GETS TO THE A RT FOR, FOR REVIEW.

HAVE WE GIVEN ANY THOUGHT TO MAYBE DEFINING WHAT SOME OF THOSE THINGS MIGHT BE? LIKE IF IT'S A BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANY, WOULD WE ASK THEM FOR THEIR BIOSAFETY LEVEL, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE, A COMPANY LIKE THAT WOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE REQUESTING AS A PART OF AN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT? SHOULD WE BE ASKING FOR A FULL LIST OF CHEMICALS ON SITE? SHOULD WE BE ASKING FOR MINIMUM QUANTITIES OR MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE QUANTITIES? SHOULD WE BE COMPARING THAT TO THE OHIO FIRE CODE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE QUANTITIES? LIKE I GUESS I'M LOOKING FOR SOME MORE TEETH IN WHAT WE'RE GOING TO ASK THESE COMPANIES TO COME TO THE TABLE WITH TO HELP US SURE.

ENSURE THAT NOT ONLY IS THE INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OF LOW INTENSITY, BUT YOU KNOW, KIND OF TRYING TO LOOK OUT AT THAT ONE YEAR, TWO YEAR, FIVE YEAR TENURE YEAR.

CAN WE KEEP THE INTENSITY LOW? SURE.

I APPRECIATE THAT THOUGHT AND WE CAN TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AND SEE IF THERE'S SPECIFIC THINGS THAT COULD FIT

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WITHIN THIS CATEGORY.

I KNOW THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WITHIN BUILDING AND FIRE CODES, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN REQUIREMENTS, WHICH ARE MORE ABOUT MATERIALS AND STORAGE OF MATERIALS AND HOW IT'S USED.

UM, SO THAT'S PART OF THEIR REVIEW.

AGAIN, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO PROVIDE AT SOME POINT.

WE CAN TALK WITH OUR TEAM AND SEE, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW THAT FITS IN WITH WHAT WE'VE ALREADY CURRENTLY WRITTEN IN THERE.

ANYTHING LIKE THAT, IF IT REQUIRES AN AIR PERMIT AT THE STATE OR FEDERAL LEVEL, IF, IF IT REQUIRES ANY TYPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PERMIT, MAYBE THAT WOULD BE A USE THAT WE WOULD WANT TO SAY MIGHT, MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD, A GOOD APPLICATION TO PUT ANOTHER SET OF EYES ON AND MAKE THAT CONDITIONAL.

IF I COULD JUST ADD, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S INTERESTING THAT, AND WHEN WE THINK ABOUT QUALITATIVE STANDARDS VERSUS QUANTITATIVE STANDARDS, THERE TENDS TO BE THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE QUANTITATIVE STANDARDS ARE, ARE, ARE BETTER BECAUSE THEY'RE MORE SPECIFIC.

BUT ONCE YOU HAVE QUANTITATIVE STANDARDS AND PEOPLE TEND TO COME IN RIGHT AT THOSE STANDARDS.

RIGHT.

UM, AND IT'S, AND IT ALSO BEGS THE QUESTION OF, OF OF WHAT THOSE STANDARDS ARE RELATED TO, UH, AND HOW THOSE STANDARDS ARE ARRIVED AT.

I HONESTLY THINK THAT THE SYSTEM THAT IS, IS PROPOSED TO BE PUT IN PLACE HERE, CREATES A MORE RIGOROUS REVIEW PROCESS THAN IT WOULD BE SIMPLY SAYING, HERE ARE SOME NUMERIC STANDARDS AND PEOPLE ARE GONNA COME RIGHT IN AT THOSE STANDARDS BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S THIS NO MEASURABLE INCREASE.

IT'S REQUIRING THEY DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY MEET THE DEFINITION THAT THEY MEET THE INTENT THAT THEY MEET ALL OF THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.

SO I I, I KNOW IT SOUNDS COUNTERINTUITIVE TO SOME PEOPLE THAT THIS MORE QUALITATIVE APPROACH, UH, IS, IS NOT THE SAME AS A QUANTITATIVE OBJECTIVE STANDARDS.

BUT I THINK WITH THIS KIND OF REVIEW PROCESS THAT'S BEING PUT INTO PLACE, I I HONESTLY THINK IT'S A MORE RIGOROUS LEVEL OF REVIEW.

AND I GUESS I'M NOT ASKING FOR, YOU CAN ONLY HAVE SO MUCH METHYLMETHACRYLATE ON SITE.

I'M, I'M NOT LOOKING FOR THAT TYPE OF, WE, I, WE, I KNOW WE CAN'T DO THAT.

WE CAN'T POSSIBLY LOOK INTO THE FUTURE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT TYPES OF USES MIGHT COME TO OUR DOORSTEP.

WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT.

WE KNOW THE INTENT.

AND I'M, I'M PRETTY COMFORTABLE WITH THE INTENT STATEMENT, BUT I WAS HOPING I WOULD HEAR IF WE HAVE AN ADVANCED MANUFACTURER COME TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM WITH A DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL, THESE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE WOULD ASK THEM FOR IF THEY WERE A CHEMICAL BASED MANUFACTURER OR A BIOSCIENCE TYPE MANUFACTURER.

AND I THINK THAT AS A CITY, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SAY WHAT WE WOULD ASK THESE DEVELOPERS FOR.

LIKE WE SHOULD HAVE THAT KNOWLEDGE NOW.

IF WE DON'T HAVE THAT KNOWLEDGE NOW, NOW'S THE TIME TO GET A CONSULTANT IN TO HELP US TO THE PACKAGES THAT COME TO US ARE RIGOROUS.

UM, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S A SUGGESTION ON MY PART.

UM, SO THE BASELINE TODAY I THINK IS IMPORTANT.

UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE'RE GOING TO ASK THESE DEVELOPERS FOR, THAT WE CAN QUALITATIVELY NOT EVEN QUANTITATIVELY MEASURE THEIR POTENTIAL IMPACT AGAINST.

I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE ARE.

UM, I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN IN NUMEROUS RESIDENT FEEDBACK AND BOTH LIVE AND, AND COMMENTS THAT A SUGGESTION TO MAKE ALL ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND CONDITIONAL USE.

I'VE WORKED IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING FOR A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF MY CAREER AND I KNOW THAT IT CAN BE DONE SAFELY AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT GOES ON, ON BEHIND DOORS WITH SAFETY PROTOCOLS AND, AND WASTE HANDLING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UM, SO I'M NOT NECESSARILY IN FAVOR OF MAKING ALL ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IN THE WID CONDITIONAL USE, BUT I THINK THAT THERE COULD BE SOME LEVELS THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER.

UM, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BIOTECH, UM, AGAIN, WE HAVE A BIOSAFETY LEVEL AND THAT'S A SELF-GENERATED DECLARATION BY A MANUFACTURER THAT'S IN THE BIOSCIENCES.

THEY CAN SIT, THEY SELF DECLARE THAT THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO CHECKLIST OUT THERE THAT SOMEBODY HAS TO, YOU KNOW, TO USE TO DETERMINE THEIR BIOSAFETY LEVEL.

BUT IT'S AN INDUSTRY NORM AND IT'S KNOWN AMONG THOSE MANUFACTURERS.

UM, SO I WOULD THINK, YOU KNOW, BIOSAFETY ONE, WE HAVE BIOSAFETY LEVEL ONE COMPANIES HERE IN DUBLIN NOW, AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.

WE DON'T THINK ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT NOXIOUS, THEY'RE NOT GONNA HURT US.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY BIOSAFETY LEVEL FOURS, NOR WOULD WE, AND THAT WOULD BE LIKE AIRBORNE PATHOGENS OR GAIN OF FUNCTION.

I WOULDN'T THINK WE WOULD WANT THAT IN THE WOOD.

SO MAYBE THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO IDENTIFY WHAT I WOULD CONSIDER TO BE MORE EGREGIOUS USES AND SAY MAYBE THOSE ARE CONDITIONAL, YOU KNOW, MAYBE BIOSAFETY LEVEL ONE AND TWO ARE FINE.

WE HAVE THOSE IN DUBLIN TODAY.

MAYBE WE WOULD WANT TO MAKE A BIOSAFETY LEVEL THREE AND FOUR, A CONDITIONAL USE JUST TO PUT ANOTHER SET OF EYES ON IT.

'CAUSE AGAIN, WHAT ARE WE ASKING FOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT PACKET? MAYBE WE DON'T QUITE KNOW YET AND WE'RE GONNA BE LEARNING SO UPFRONT, LET'S BE A LITTLE MORE CAUTIOUS.

I WOULD THINK THE SAME THING ALONG THE LINES OF NON BIOMANUFACTURING.

UM, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S CHEMICAL BASED AND OR ADDITIVE OR

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SO JUST, LET'S THINK ABOUT THIS BEFORE WE, YOU KNOW, WE FINALIZE THIS CODE.

AND, AND I THINK THAT MIGHT ALSO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT THE RESIDENTS HAVE TO PUT MORE TEETH INTO THE DEFINITIONS, UM, AND HAVE, PROVIDE MORE OPPORTUNITY FOR TRANSPARENCY AS IT GOES THROUGH THE REVIEW PROCESS.

UM, THOSE ARE A, A COUPLE OF THE THOUGHTS I HAVE, UM, IN THE CODE ITSELF.

THIS IS ANOTHER SUGGESTION I'D LIKE TO MAKE.

I'D LIKE TO SEE DATA CENTERS STAY IN THE CODE AS A BLANK LINE TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THEY'RE NEITHER A PERMITTED OR CONDITIONAL USE THAT WOULDN'T BE, I'M NOT ASKING FOR SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T ALREADY EXIST.

THERE IS AT LEAST ONE OTHER USE IN THE USES CHART.

I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT IT IS.

UM, IT'S SOMETHING SILLY.

UM, BUT IT'S THERE AND IT'S BLANK.

THERE'S JUST, THERE'S NO USES.

SO IF WE COULD POSSIBLY LEAVE DATA CENTERS IN THE USES CHART AND, AND JUST LEAVE ALL THE LINES BLANK TO MAKE THE INTENT CLEAR.

AND ANOTHER SUGGESTION I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE, UM, AND AGAIN, THESE ARE JUST SUGGESTIONS.

SO, UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF LANGUAGE THAT DEFINES DIFFERENT USES.

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING HAS A DEFINITION SPECIFICALLY IN THE CODE.

DO WE WANNA CONSIDER CREATING A USE DEFINITION FOR DATA CENTERS? BECAUSE WHEN YOU SAY DATA CENTER, I THINK MOST PEOPLE THINK OF A, OF A HYPERSCALER LIKE AN AMAZON OR A META.

I MEAN THOSE ARE OBVIOUSLY DATA CENTERS.

WE ALSO HAVE DATA CENTERS IN DUBLIN THAT YOU DRIVE BY AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.

SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SECONDARY NEEDS FOR COMPUTE AND STORAGE AT A FACILITY SITE.

UM, MAYBE WE WANT TO CREATE A DEFINITION AROUND DATA CENTERS THAT NOT ONLY CLARIFIES OUR INTENT ON WHAT WE MEAN ABOUT DATA CENTERS, BUT THEN ALSO WOULD PROVIDE AN EMPLOYER WHO WANTS TO COME TO DUBLIN WITH, YOU KNOW, CLEAR GUIDELINES ON WHAT THEY COULD DO ON SITE.

BECAUSE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND I WORK FOR DELL AND WE'RE TRYING TO SELL SERVERS AND STORAGE TO EVERYBODY AND EVERYBODY WANTS IT.

I MEAN, IT IS DRIVING OUR ECONOMY ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

UM, SO I DON'T WANNA SAY THAT WE DON'T WANT CERTAIN THINGS LIKE, BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR AN EMPLOYER TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CAN HAVE INTENSIVE COMPUTE ON SITE.

AND SO MAYBE WE WANT TO CONSIDER PUTTING A, A DEFINED DATA CENTER DESCRIPTION IN THE CODE.

JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.

UM, UH, ONE OF THE RESIDENTS BROUGHT UP TONIGHT, I'VE ALSO STRUGGLED ON THE WEBSITE.

I'VE GONE THROUGH THE, THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM SITE AND READ BACK AS FAR AS RECORDS ALLOW ONLINE.

UM, IF THERE ARE OTHER PROJECTS THAT HAVE GONE INTO THE WID OR ANYWHERE IN DUBLIN THAT ARE MORE INTENSIVE IN USE AND HAVE GONE THROUGH THE ART PROCESS.

I THINK SHARING THAT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND CERTAINLY SHARING THAT WITH ME AS A NEW COUNCIL MEMBER, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND.

UM, OR AT LEAST JUST TO SHOW THAT THERE IS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN MAYBE WHAT'S SHOWING UP AS A SIGN OR A, ONE OF THEM WAS THE NARROWING OF PARKING SPACES IN A GARAGE, A BRIDGE PARK.

I MEAN THAT, THAT'S FAR FROM WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE AS FAR AS USES IN THE WI.

AND THEN ONE OTHER SPECIFIC QUESTION ON THE CODE, UM, AND I HAVE TO GO BACK TO IT, WE TALKED ABOUT SHOWROOM LIMITATIONS ON SHOWROOM SIZE, AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW LIMITING A SHOWROOM TO 10% OF THE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GROSS FLOOR SPACE OR GROSS AREA SPACE, BUT IT WAS TIED INTO WAREHOUSING AND DISTRIBUTION AND I, I DIDN'T QUITE MAKE THAT CONNECTION.

SO IT'S A VERY SPECIFIC POINT AND I APOLOGIZE FOR COMING TO THAT AT THIS POINT IN MY, MY LITURGY SO TO SPEAK.

BUT, UM, IF YOU COULD HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW LIMITING THE SIZE OF A SHOWROOM HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH WAREHOUSING AND DISTRIBUTION AS IT APPLIES TO THE CODE, I'D APPRECIATE THAT.

IT'S ENTIRELY MEANT TO JUST, UM, KINDA GET A TASTE OF A SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO SHOWCASE WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING WITHIN THEIR SPACE.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

UM, SO THE REASON IT'S TIED TO THAT IS LET'S SAY A COMPANY HAS CREATED A PRODUCT.

THEY HAVE A STORAGE WAREHOUSE OF THAT PRODUCT OR PRODUCTS.

UM, THEY MAY WANT TO HAVE SOME SORT OF SHOW SPACE TO BRING POTENTIAL CLIENTS IN AND SHOW THEM WHAT THEY'VE CREATED SO THAT THEY CAN SELL THAT FEATURE DATE.

SO THE REASON THAT WE HAVE THAT 10%, UM, REQUIREMENT IS SO THAT WE DON'T WANT THAT TO GROW INTO A BIGGER USE AND MAKE IT MORE OF A RETAIL SPACE.

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OKAY, GREAT.

NOW TO FOLLOW ON TO THAT, AND I PROMISE THIS WILL BE THE LAST THING I I'LL GIVE MY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS TIME TO TALK HERE.

UM, WAS THERE ANY DISCUSSION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CODE ON TRYING TO LIMIT THE SIZE OF A SECONDARY DISTRIBUTION SITE? YOU KNOW, THE PLAN, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S A FEW OFFICES AND THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF LAB SPACE, BUT 85% OF IT ISN'T IS A, IS A WAREHOUSE SPACE VERSUS OFFICES AND LAB AND THE HIGHER ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS.

AND THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING THE QUESTION LIKE, DID THAT 10% HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE ALLOWABLE WAREHOUSING SPACE THAT WOULD BE ALLOWED WITHIN A PROJECT? SO THAT REQUIREMENT IS CURRENTLY IN THE CODE.

WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO CHANGE THE 10% OF THE THAT SPACE.

UM, WE DID HAVE A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW DO WE ADDRESS THE ACCESSORY, UM, INTENT FOR WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION.

UM, WE DID TALK ABOUT PUTTING A SIZE LIMITATION.

UM, HOWEVER, KIND OF WHAT WE LANDED ON WAS VERY SIMILAR TO PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS OF WHEN YOU SAY IT'S THIS NUMBER, UM, IF SOMEBODY COMES IN JUST OVER THAT NUMBER, BUT IT'S VERY CLEAR AND EVIDENT THAT THIS IS NOT A, UM, WAREHOUSING DISTRIBUTION IS NOT A PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE SPACE, BUT IT'S PURELY ACCESSORY THAT ADDS ONE MORE, UM, STEP FOR A, A POTENTIAL PROJECT IN A DISTRICT WHERE THAT'S, WE'RE TRYING TO ELIMINATE SOME OF THESE, THESE STEPS.

SO THAT'S WHY WE, WE FOCUS MORE ON LET'S CREATE THE, THE BOUNDARIES, UM, THROUGH A QUALITATIVE STANDARD, UH, TO GIVE US SOME OF THAT TEETH AS WE'RE REVIEWING THESE SO THAT IF SOMETHING COMES IN THAT MAYBE THE SPACE ITSELF IS MAYBE A LITTLE BIT BIGGER THAN WHAT WE WOULD MAYBE CONSIDER ACCESSORY, BUT THEY'RE MAY BE GETTING A TRUCK A DAY OR THEY'RE USING IT TO STORE THEIR SPACE.

WE DON'T WANNA PUT LIMITATIONS ON SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

'CAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I THINK WE WOULD TRY AND ACHIEVE OUT HERE.

UM, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE HERE THIS EVENING AND ALL THAT HAVE CONTINUED TO BE HERE AND SHARE YOUR VIEWS AND EXPERTISE AND INSIGHTS.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

UM, IF YOU COULD PULL UP PLEASE THE, UM, INTENT STATEMENT.

STATEMENTS THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO REFLECT ON.

I, I, UM, I APPRECIATE MR. DALE'S COMMENTS AND I APPRECIATE THE DEFINITIONS.

AND WHEN WE STAND BACK, I'M NOT SURE WE SPEND ENOUGH TIME ON THIS AND I JUST WANTED TO SPEND A LITTLE MORE TIME ON THIS BECAUSE I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A COLLECTIVE STATEMENT WRITTEN BY, UM, PLANNING AND ZONING BY STAFF, BY RESIDENTS.

AND WHEN YOU READ THIS AND YOU STAND BACK AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THE INTENT IS, IT'S TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT, FOSTER INNOVATION, CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

AND ALL THE REST OF IT TALKS ABOUT HOW WE ARE THEN GOING TO DO THIS IN A RESPONSIBLE WAY, A WAY THAT THAT MATCHES, UM, WHAT WE HAS HAVE ALWAYS DONE IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

AND THAT IS WITH INTENT.

SO, UM, THE VERY THIRD SENTENCE, WHILE PROVIDING A, UH, SENSITIVE TRANSITION USING USES WITHIN THE DISTRICT ARE EXPECTED TO INCORPORATE CLEAN PRODUCTION PRINCIPLES, NOT HAZARDOUS WASTE, THAT MINIMIZE WASTE, MIN MINIMIZE BYPRODUCTS, MAXIMIZE, ET CETERA, SO FORTH.

LAND USES ARE EXPECTED TO BE LOWER INTENSITY IN SCALE.

I KNOW THERE WAS LOTS OF CONCERN ABOUT CONTENT DENSITY.

A LOT OF THE CONCERNS HAPPEN WHEN THERE'S DENSITY, UM, AND INTENSITY.

AND, AND THAT IS NOT WHAT IS THE INTENT OF THIS DISTRICT SHALL NOT RESULT IN ADVERSE IMPACTS TO THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES THAT SHOULD PROBABLY BE IN RED.

IT SEEMS TO ME SHALL NOT RESULT IN ADVERT IMPACTS TO SURROUNDING PROPERTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO.

AND IT LISTS THEM.

AND WHILE I THINK MR. DALE'S COMMENT IS SO IMPORTANT IS THAT, YES, I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE DEFINITIONS IN THE CODE, BUT THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING HERE.

AND THIS IS, THIS IS SO IMPORTANT 'CAUSE THIS IS HOW WE DO THINGS IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

THIS IS HOW WE'VE ALWAYS DONE THINGS.

WE'VE ALWAYS, UM, LINED UP CONSULTANTS WHEN WE NEEDED THEM.

WE'VE ALWAYS ASKED FOR HELP AND EXPERTISE WHEN WE'VE NEEDED THEM.

AND I THINK IT IS THESE

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IT'S GONNA BE REALLY HARD TO TIE ALL THINGS DOWN.

AND I'M NOT SUGGESTING THERE AREN'T SOME THINGS THAT WE COULD DO, BUT I THINK IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE MAKE SURE THE INTENT OF THIS IS LOUD AND CLEAR TO ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO COME INTO THIS COMMUNITY AND DO WORK HERE BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN A JOINT EFFORT, THIS STATEMENT.

AND IT'S A GOOD STATEMENT.

I I IT, I'M SURE IT CAN BE IMPROVED IN SOME WAYS, I'M SURE OF IT.

BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MUTUAL WORK THAT HAS GONE IN HERE, IT SEEMS TO ME FROM WHAT I'M HEARING IS THAT THE CONCERNS ARE REFLECTED SHALL NOT RESULT IN ADVERSE EFFECTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT AGAIN, I THINK THE DETAILS ARE IMPORTANT AND I THINK WE COULD FIND SOME, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.

THE OTHER COMMENT THAT I I I WANT TO, UM, MAKE, I, THIS IS YEAR NINE ON COUNCIL FOR ME, AND I SERVED ON PLANNING AND ZONING FOR A BIT BEFORE I CAME HERE.

UM, THE, THE WORK THAT AGAIN, COLLECTIVELY FOLKS HAVE DONE ON WHAT DO WE WANT THE ROADWAYS TO LOOK LIKE? HOW IMPORTANT ARE THE SETBACKS? HOW CRITICAL.

I'M NOT SURE I'VE EVER SEEN THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL AT, AT THIS.

AND SO AGAIN, I THINK, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE LIVE UP TO THAT.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THE WORK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO COMMENT ON IF, IF THERE ARE THINGS ABOUT OUR INTENT STATEMENT THAT WE FEEL AREN'T SOLID.

BUT WHEN YOU READ THIS, I DO BELIEVE IN SO MANY WAYS IT HAS INCORPORATED SO MUCH OF WHAT I'VE HEARD AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE SPENT A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME ON THAT, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD TONIGHT.

AND, UH, THANK YOU.

YOU WANNA FOLLOW UP? WELL, I'LL FOLLOW UP ON KATHY'S COMMENT FIRST.

UM, I, I AGREE WE'VE, THIS, THIS INTENT STATEMENT AND ACTUALLY THE CODE IN GENERAL HAS BEEN DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE.

I MEAN, HUNDREDS OF EYES HAVE LOOKED ON THIS.

WE'VE HAD THOUSANDS OF COMMENT PAGES OF COMMENTS, UM, FROM A WIDE VARIETY.

SO I DON'T, WE'RE NEVER GONNA HAVE IT PERFECT.

UM, BUT I THINK THIS INTENSE STATEMENT IS, IS PRETTY CLOSE.

AND WHETHER I HAD A PERSONAL PREFERENCE OF ONE WORD OR ANOTHER AT THIS POINT, IT'S HAD WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE LOOKING AT IT.

AND I THINK IT'S GREAT.

UM, AGAIN, IT'S AS GOOD AS WE'RE GONNA GET AND BY DESIGN, NOT EVERYTHING IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THIS CODE.

SO TO, TO SOME OF, UM, THE COMMENTS, UH, WENDY MADE, UM, REGARDING THOSE A RT UH, CHECKLISTS AND WHAT DEVELOPERS ARE GONNA NEED, UM, THOSE ARE DEFINITELY GONNA EVOLVE OVER TIME AND WE'RE GONNA FIGURE OUT WHAT WE NEED TO GET IN THOSE CHECKLISTS.

BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT WHAT'S IN THOSE CHECKLISTS.

'CAUSE WE HAVE A SIMILAR THING WITH THE HISTORIC DISTRICT AND THE CHECKLIST WE WANT FOR THOSE APPLICATIONS.

UM, SO THAT IS CERTAINLY STUFF WE NEED TO ADDRESS.

IT'S NOT STUFF THAT'S GONNA BE WRITTEN TO THIS CODE BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE WAY MORE SPECIFIC.

UM, BUT YES, IT DEFINITELY IS.

AND PARTICULARLY, UM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE, WE ASK FOR TREE SURVEYS WHEN A DEVELOPER COMES IN, GIVE US THE EXISTING CONDITION OF THE TREES AND TELL US WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO.

LIKEWISE FOR SOME OF THESE USES, WE'RE, WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA ASK, WE WE NEED A NOISE STUDY.

WHAT IS THE AMBIENT NOISE LEVEL NOW VERSUS WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING OR PERHAPS AIR STUDIES, AS YOU MENTIONED, IF MAYBE THEY'RE GETTING PERMITS, WE NEED AIR STUDIES.

SO I THINK THOSE ARE ALL CERTAINLY THINGS WE'RE GONNA ASK FOR AND NEED DEPENDING ON USES.

AGAIN, NOT SOMETHING WE WANNA SQUEEZE IN THIS CODE BECAUSE BY DESIGN WE WANNA KEEP THIS CODE A LITTLE BROADER.

UM, IT NEEDS TO ALLOW FOR CHANGE AND ADAPTION OVER TIME.

WE CAN'T SIT HERE TODAY AND DEFINE EVERY SINGLE WORD, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH.

THEY'RE GONNA COME, WE'RE GONNA COME UP WITH NEW, YOU KNOW, TWO YEARS FROM NOW, THERE'S GONNA BE SOME NEW POSSIBLE SCENARIO THAT WE DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT.

OR CHEMICALS THAT WE FIND TODAY THAT ARE PERFECTLY HEALTHY IN 10 YEARS, THEY MIGHT SAY IT'S THE WORST BIOCHEMICAL THING THAT EVER EXISTED.

RIGHT? WE, WE DON'T KNOW THAT YET.

AND SO THESE THINGS ARE GONNA CHANGE OVER TIME AND WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE A SET LIST.

UM, WE'RE, IT'S GONNA MER IT'S GONNA CHANGE.

IT'S, WE'RE GONNA LEARN FROM IT.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT TO CONSTANTLY UPDATING THE CODE.

SO WE HAVE TO FIND THAT BALANCE OF HOW MUCH DETAIL WE PUT IN AND, AND WHAT WE LEAVE OUT.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE THAT WITH THE BRIDGE STREET CODE.

WE WROTE THAT A FEW YEARS LATER.

WE REVISED IT, WE DID IT WITH THE HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAME THING.

WE REVISED IT SO IT, IT'S NOT, UM, COMPLETELY SENTENCED ON.

AND AGAIN, THE ISSUES WITH TRAFFIC,

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UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE TRAFFIC STUDIES.

WE'RE DESIGNING, WE'RE DOING SEPARATE INFRASTRUCTURE AND STREET STUDIES AND ALL THAT.

WE DON'T PUT ALL THAT IN THE CODE.

UM, SO I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN TO A REALLY GOOD POINT.

IT'S BEEN A, WE'VE SPENT A YEAR DRAFTING THIS.

I THINK WE'VE TAKEN A LOT OF, UH, INPUT AND I THINK WE'VE DONE REALLY WELL.

YOU KNOW, WE, WE SAID THAT WE WANTED TO GET THAT SPECIAL AREA PLAN TOGETHER AND THE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE, THE BUFFER STUDY, WHICH IS NEXT ON OUR TOPIC , UM, TO COMMENT ABOUT.

UH, SO I, I THINK WE'RE GETTING THERE.

I I, I DID HAVE A COUPLE JUST QUESTIONS.

I LOOKED THROUGH ALL THE MINUTES AS MUCH AS I COULD.

I I JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE OF WHY WE LET, WE DIDN'T ALLOW OFFICE FLEX USE.

UM, THAT WAS ONE THAT I WAS KIND OF CURIOUS ABOUT.

I COULDN'T FIND IT SPECIFICALLY, LIKE WHY DID WE RULE THAT OUT? THE OTHER, I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE PROHIBITED A CUSTOMER FROM PICKING UP ANYTHING LIKE CUSTOMER PICKUP.

I, I JUST DIDN'T, I DIDN'T SEE THAT.

UM, SO MAYBE SOME INSIGHT ON WHY WE EXCLUDED THOSE.

GREAT QUESTION.

UH, SO FOR OFFICE FLEX, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS STILL PERMANENT OUT HERE.

I WOULD SAY THAT IS MORE OF A BUILDING TYPE THAN IT IS A SPECIFIC USE.

SO IF SOMEBODY STILL WANTED TO DO OFFICE AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, AND THAT IS STILL PERMITTED OUT HERE.

UM, THE CONCERN THAT WE HAD WITH OFFICE FLEX IS IT PUTS A REQUIREMENT ON HOW MUCH OFFICE YOU NEED TO HAVE, BUT THEN IT ALSO ALLOWS FOR, UM, IT SAYS REMAINING SPACE MAY BE USED FOR ANY, IN ANY COMBINATION OF RESEARCH IN LABORATORY SPACE, CLEAN MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLY, WHOLESALE, UH, IN RELATED SHOWROOM WAREHOUSING AND OR DISTRIBUTION PURPOSES.

SO IT'S NOT PUTTING LIMITATIONS ON SOMETHING LIKE A WAREHOUSE WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION, UM, WHERE WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE IT SPECIFICALLY LISTED AS AN ACCESSORY USE, UH, WE HAVE, SO THOSE LIMITATIONS, SO THIS IS SAYING THAT THOSE WOULD ALL STILL BE CONSIDERED PERMITTED PRIMARY USES ALONGSIDE OFFICE.

SO THAT'S WHY WE WITHHELD IT.

UH, SO IT'S BY, IT'S BY DEFINITION THEN TECHNICALLY EXCLUDED? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ? YES.

AND, AND THAT IT IS, IT, IT'S A LITTLE, BECAUSE IT, I WOULD VIEW IT MORE AS, AGAIN, A, A BUILDING TYPE.

YOU HAVE A FLEXIBLE BUILDING THAT HAS DIFFERENT USES WITHIN IT AND WE ALREADY ALLOW FOR THAT.

OMITTING, IT ALLOWS US TO FOCUS PRIMARILY ON THE USES THAT WE'VE CALLED OUT IN ID SIX AND NOT LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN TO SOME OF THESE SECONDARY USES THAT ARE LISTED IN THIS USE SPECIFIC STANDARD.

BUT, BUT WE'RE ALLOWING OFF, WE ARE INTENT ALLOWING IT TECHNICALLY UNDER DIFFERENT DEFINITION.

YES, WE ARE, WE ARE ALLOWING FLEXIBLE OFFICE SPACE.

AND THEN WHAT ABOUT THE CUSTOMER PICKUP? WHERE, WHAT DOES, WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? I THINK THE GOAL WAS TO REALLY LIMIT ANY SORT OF RETAIL CUSTOMER, UM, OPERATIONS WITHIN THE SPACE THAT IS RELYING HEAVILY ON CUSTOMERS COMING TO THE SPACE AND PICKING UP THE SET.

AND WHY WAS THAT? WHAT WAS THE REASON? TRAFFIC.

YEAH, I MEAN ONE OF THE PRIMARY THINGS WAS TRAFFIC.

THE MORE PEOPLE THAT COME IN TO, TO PICK UP, UM, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO INCREASE WITH THAT.

SO THAT WAS ONE WAY THAT WE FELT THAT WE COULD, UM, START TO LIMIT WHAT THIS WOULD LOOK LIKE AND HOW IT WOULD, UH, IMPACT THE STREETS THERE.

I'M JUST CURIOUS, DID THOSE QUESTIONS COME UP? I DIDN'T SEE 'EM IN THE MINUTES, BUT THERE WAS LOTS OF PAGES, SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS.

YEAH, I MEAN THAT WAS SOMETHING, OKAY.

AS WE WERE LOOKING AT ALL THE USES, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE DEFINITELY DISCUSSED.

ALRIGHT.

UM, OKAY.

ARE WE TALKING THE BUFFER STUDY NOW? WE'RE JUST DOING CODE.

WE, I, I WOULD GET ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS OUT.

ALL MY COMMENTS OUT.

WHEN DO WE WANT THAT 90%? UM, AND HOW, UM, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE AGAIN, A LOT OF TIMES, YOU KNOW, THEY PLANT THESE TREES, THEY'RE GUARANTEED WHAT FOR A YEAR WHEN THEY PUT 'EM IN AND THEN, YOU KNOW, HALF OF THEM DIE AND SO AF LIKE TWO DAYS AFTER THE YEAR IS OVER.

SO REGARDING THE BUFFER STUDY, MY , MY, MY ONE COMMENT, UM, IS REALLY BASED AROUND THAT 90% OPACITY REQUIREMENT BECAUSE, UM, I DEAL WITH LANDSCAPE BUFFERING A LOT IN MY INDUSTRY, AND THAT IS THE HIGHEST NUMBER I'VE EVER SEEN ANYWHERE.

AND, UM, AND WHAT OUR CODE DOESN'T DO, OR WHAT THE BUFFER STUDY DOESN'T SAY IS WHEN IS THAT 90% REQUIRED? RIGHT? SO MOST OF THE TIMES IT'S, UM, USUALLY IT'S A 70% TO 85 IS THE HIGHEST I'VE EVER SEEN OPACITY WITHIN FIVE YEARS, OR, YOU KNOW, SO I MEAN, IF WE'RE GONNA ASK, I COULDN'T IMAGINE WE'D ASK FOR 90% OPACITY AT INSTALLATION BECAUSE AT INSTALLATION, IF WE'RE ASKING FOR TWO TO TWO AND A HALF CALIBER TREES SPACED APART, THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ROOM TO GROW.

I MEAN THE, WE HAVE TO ALLOW FOR THEM TO GROW AT SOME POINT.

I MEAN, SO MY QUESTION I GUESS IS AROUND WHAT DO WE,

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RIGHT? AND SO THEN THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME BACK AND PUT 'EM IN.

SO, UM, I'M JUST CURIOUS WHERE WE'RE GETTING THAT 90% FROM AND IS THAT IS REALISTIC? IT'S, IT DOESN'T SEEM REALISTIC TO ME.

I GUESS MAYBE AMY, YOUR QUESTION IS, IS IT 90% MATURITY OR IS IT 90% IN INSTALLATION? COR COR, YEAH.

LIKE YEAH.

CAN WE EXPLAIN? YEAH.

MATURITY, EVEN AT MATURITY, 90% SEEMS PRETTY HIGH.

UM, IT'S THE HIGHEST AGAIN, I'VE EVER SEEN AT MATURITY.

AND HOW LONG IS MATURITY? SO WE DO HAVE, WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE PLANNING GUIDELINES, AND I DON'T THINK IT WAS SHOWN ON THE SLIDES, BUT THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS ABOUT HOW MANY TREES PER 100 LINEAR FEED.

IT'S, AND THAT, THAT'S NOT SAYING YOU NEED TO HAVE 30 TREES BACK TO BACK, TO BACK TO BACK.

IT'S PUTTING IT SPORADICALLY NATURALLY, WHICH IS, I THINK IS TO IN, UH, ACHIEVE THIS 90%.

SO TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT PERCENTAGE, I, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAD ANYTHING YOU WANTED TO ADD TO THAT ONE.

NO, I'LL SAY IN TERMS OF, UM, I, YOU, YOU BRING UP A GOOD POINT ABOUT THE TIMING.

THAT IS A LINE THAT I'M, I'M REALIZING WE PROBABLY NEED TO ADD IN HERE.

WE DO.

'CAUSE WE DO HAVE REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTALLATION SIZES, KNOWING THAT YOU CAN'T INSTALL A FULLY MATURE TREE YEAH.

UM, ON DAY ONE.

UM, SO WE'RE TRYING TO SORT OF HIT THAT MAXIMUM SIZE, UM, THAT'S STILL GOOD FOR THE HEALTH OF THE TREE, UM, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, NOT UNREALISTIC.

SO I THINK WE DO LIKELY NEED TO ADD A LINE IN ABOUT, UM, THE TIMING ON THAT.

SAME REQUIREMENTS THAT THEY'D HAVE TO MEET, UH, IF IT WAS BEING BUILT NEW.

SO, SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE SEARCHING FOR 90% AT MATURITY WITH, AND THAT IS MOST LIKELY LIKE FIVE YEARS OR SO, OR CORRECT.

AND, AND AND RECOGNIZING THAT WITH, YOU KNOW, THESE SORT OF VERY, UM, HIGH MOUND HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS TOO, UM, TO KIND OF HELP OFFSET SOME OF THAT AS WELL IN THOSE EARLY YEARS.

UM, THANK YOU TO ALL THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED ON THIS AND REMAIN ENGAGED ON THIS.

IT, IT'S REALLY HELPFUL AND VERY INFORMATIVE.

UM, AND THANKS TO STAFF FOR ALL OF THIS.

UM, SO I I I, I WOULD AGREE ABOUT TRYING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE, THE CHECKLISTS AND ENGAGING SOME EXPERTS EARLY ON IN THIS PROCESS AND NOT WAITING UNTIL THERE'S A QUESTION BECAUSE YOU'RE ALMOST ASSURED GONNA HAVE A QUESTION THE MINUTE A, A DEVELOPMENT COMES FORWARD, UM, BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GONNA COME.

SO I, I, I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH THAT.

UM, I, I DID HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, UM, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, UM, AND, AND MAKING, MAKING IT A CONDITIONAL USE.

I, I THINK, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER WENDY, HE BRINGS UP A REALLY GOOD, UM, POTENTIAL COMPROMISE THERE WHERE THERE MAY BE SOME LEVELS OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING THAT WE COULD SAY ARE CONDITIONAL USE AND SOME THAT ARE PERMITTED USE.

I, I WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED IN EXPLORING THAT.

THAT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT'S SORT OF BEEN NAGGING AT ME FOR, FOR A MINUTE, UM, AS WELL.

AND, UH, SHE KNOWS MORE ABOUT IT THAN I DO.

SO, UM, I, I HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT ENFORCEMENT.

SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE NOISE OR CHEMICALS OR OPACITY AT A CERTAIN, WHAT, WHAT, HOW, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF ENFORCEMENT? SO IF SOMEONE HAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS OR THOSE TREES DON'T LOOK BIG ENOUGH TO ME AND IT'S BEEN SEVEN YEARS, LIKE WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? AND WHAT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CITY? WHAT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DEVELOPER OR THE OWNER OR WHATEVER THAT IS AT THE TIME THAT, THAT QUESTION MAY COME UP? SURE.

GREAT QUESTION.

SO AT THE TIME OF, WE'LL JUST SAY DEVELOPMENT, UH, THERE'S THE ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS.

THERE'S BUILDING CODE REQUIREMENTS, SITE BUILDING CODE REQUIREMENTS, FIRE REQUIREMENTS, ALL OF THOSE.

SO WHEN THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THAT, THERE'S INSPECTIONS THAT ARE REQUIRED THAT THEY HAVE TO MEET AND, AND GET SIGNED OFF ON, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER BUILDING.

UM, WHEN IT COMES TO, LET'S SAY DOWN THE ROAD, UH, IF THERE IS A RESIDENT COMPLAINT ELSEWHERE THAT SIMILAR TO WHAT WE WOULD DO ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE CITY GETS THAT, AND WE WOULD EXPLORE AND MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER THE REQUESTS OR THE, THE COMPLAINT IS, VERIFYING THAT ON THE SITE AND THEN MAKING SURE THAT IT IS IN COMPLIANCE.

SO IF IT'S NOT IN COMPLIANCE, THEN IT GOES THROUGH CODE VIOLATIONS.

AND WE WOULD WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS.

UM, IF A, LET'S SAY A DEVELOPMENT WERE TO EXPAND OR CHANGE THEIR OPERATIONS, UM, THAT'S ANOTHER THING WHERE THEY HAVE TO USUALLY GO THROUGH BUILDING PERMITTING AS WELL.

IF THEY'RE DOING THINGS INTERIOR TO THE SITE.

UM, AND THEY'D HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE MEETING ALL THE

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THE SAME WITH IF, IF IT'S SOMETHING IS HAPPENING TO THE SITE OR THE BUILDING'S EXPANDING OR THEY'RE CHANGING SOMETHING WITH PARKING, THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT ANY SORT OF ALTERATION TO THE SITE, TO THE BUILDING HAS TO GO THROUGH SOME SORT OF PROCESS.

SO THERE'S ALWAYS, IT'S NOT JUST, IT'S APPROVED ONCE AND YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT DOWN THE ROAD.

IT'S, WE HAVE THESE LAYERS OF, OF PROTECTIONS THAT ALLOW THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN THESE SPACES, UM, AND THAT IT'S MEETING OUR REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE TODAY.

ALSO OUR STATE REQUIREMENTS FOR OUR, OUR BUILDING CODE AND OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT.

YEAH, I, I THINK THAT'S JUST REALLY IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO SAY OUT LOUD, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT THERE IS RECOURSE THERE IF, IF, IF RESIDENTS OR, YOU KNOW, ANYBODY FEELS LIKE SOMETHING IS NOT UP TO WHAT WAS PROMISED.

UM, I, I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.

UM, AND, AND KATHY, I DID WANNA SAY TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE INTENT, UM, I DO THINK IT'S A GOOD STATEMENT.

I THINK IT'S, UM, REALLY WONDERFUL THAT IT WAS, IT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN PUT TOGETHER BY SO MANY PEOPLE, IN SO MANY HANDS.

UM, AND MAYBE IT ISN'T PERFECT.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT STATEMENT COULD EVER BE PERFECT.

UM, BUT I, I DO VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE ENGAGEMENT FROM OUR RESIDENTS AND STAFF WORKING WITH OUR RESIDENTS, UM, AND TRYING TO CREATE, UM, THOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND THEN CREATING THIS STATEMENT THAT I THINK IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT.

AND IT'S A ROBUST STATEMENT.

UM, AND I, AND I, I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT THAT OUT AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT AND I, I'M GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT TO THE FOREFRONT.

THE ACCEPTED LIMITATIONS, UM, FOR A SPECIFIC MATERIAL AND HOW IT'S STORED, IF THEY EXCEED THAT, THERE'S BUILDING CODE REQUIREMENTS THAT THEY HAVE TO, UM, THEY HAVE TO MEET TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE STILL IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE OHIO BUILDING CODE.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

LET ME JUST FOLLOW UP ON THAT BECAUSE I ACTUALLY REALLY DO THINK THAT THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW THINGS SHOULD WORK.

UM, THE COMMUNITY RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ENGAGED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, 16 PLUS MONTHS OF COLLABORATIVE WORK.

AND THE STAFF HAS DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB.

UM, THEY'VE MADE SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES IN THE CODE.

THEY'VE COME UP WITH, I THINK A REALLY GOOD DESIGN MANUAL.

UM, THE INTENT STATEMENT I AGREE, IS GOOD.

I DON'T THINK IT CAN EVER BE PERFECT, BUT I THINK WHAT IT DOES IS IT BALANCES THE NEED FOR FLEXIBILITY, UH, WITH A LOT OF THE CONCERNS OF THE RESIDENTS.

UM, THAT BEING SAID, THOUGH, THERE ACTUALLY IS ONE THING THOUGH THAT I ACTUALLY DID HAVE A QUESTION ON A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND I SAW COMMENT.

UM, AND IT HAS TO DO WITH THE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.

THAT'S ACTUALLY ONE THEME THAT WE KEEP HEARING.

AND, YOU KNOW, THAT RESONATES WITH ME BECAUSE I AGREE THAT IF SOMEONE WANTED TO PUT ANY HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS IN NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I LIVE IN, I THINK PEOPLE WOULD BE CONCERNED.

UM, AND I KNOW THAT THE BALANCE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET WAS THAT, UM, WE'RE GONNA HAVE CLEAN PRODUCTION PRINCIPLES PLUS THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN EMISSIONS TESTING REQUIREMENTS, AND THAT SHOULD PROVIDE SUFFICIENT PROTECTIONS.

I GUESS MY ONLY QUESTION IS THAT THE CLEAN, UM, PRODUCTION PRINCIPLES IS SORT OF UNCLEAR TO ME.

AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I KNOW, AGAIN, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BALANCE, UM, SOME FLEXIBILITY WITHOUT GETTING TOO RESTRICTIVE.

BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THESE COMPANIES ARE GONNA DO, BUT IF THERE COULD BE JUST MORE CLARITY WITH WHAT CLEAN PRODUCTION PRINCIPLES ARE, AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE SAY MINIMIZE, WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? BECAUSE WE REALLY HAVE NO MEASURABLE THRESHOLDS.

AND THIS GETS BACK TO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WENDY WAS BRINGING ABOUT, ABOUT MEASURABLE INCREASES.

WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN AND HOW DO WE JUDGE THAT? UM, I ACTUALLY DO AGREE TO, AT LEAST WITH THE CONDITIONAL USE STATUS, I ACTUALLY DO LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING A GRADED APPROACH.

OF COURSE, THREE AND FOUR WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT I THINK PROBABLY SHOULD GET, UM, REVIEWED BY P AND Z, WHEREAS A ONE AND TWO IS, WHICH IS ALREADY IN OPERATION HERE IN DUBLIN.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE A RT COULD BE SUFFICIENT, UH, FOR THAT.

BUT, UM, THE ONE, AND, AND ACTUALLY, AND THIS IS MY QUESTION AND THEN I'LL GET INTO MY COMMENT, AND IT HAS TO DO WITH THE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AGAIN.

UM, AND THIS HAS COME UP AND THIS, IT HAS TO DO WITH THE LONG-TERM CHECKS ON COMPANIES THAT DO USE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.

AND THE QUESTION IS, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE CODE IS SUPPOSED TO ENFORCE OR IS THAT MORE OF A JOB OF OSHA AND OEPA? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I THINK BACK IN THE MEDICAL REALM, WE WORK WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ALL THE TIME.

AND PART OF THE PROBLEM IS, IS WE DON'T KNOW WHAT MATERIALS THEY'RE GONNA BE USING TO WHAT EXTENT WE'RE GONNA BE USING.

UM, AND SO IT'S KIND OF HARD TO DEFINE THAT A PRIORITY TO COMPANIES THAT WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHICH COMPANIES ARE GONNA BE THERE.

UM, BUT ONCE THEY ARE THERE, THEN IS IT OUR JOB TO BE POLICING AND REGULATING THAT? OR IS IT MORE THE JOB OF OSHA AND OEPA? ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION.

SO, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO ZONING, I WOULD SAY THE STANDARD PRACTICE OF ZONING IS NOT TO REGULATE THE TYPES OF MATERIALS THAT ARE USED WITHIN SPACE.

UM, WHICH IS WHY WE'VE LEANED SO HEAVILY ON THE INTENT AND THE DEFINITION TO CREATE THE PARAMETERS FOR US TO SAY, ALL RIGHT, WE, BASED ON THIS, WHAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO US.

WE FEEL LIKE THIS IS A RED FLAG, THIS NEEDS TO BE KICKED UP.

UM, AND I WOULD SAY BUILDING CODE IS SOMETHING THAT WHEN THINGS CHANGE WITHIN A SPACE, UM, WHETHER THEY ARE EXCEEDING

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SO EVEN AS THE OPERATIONS CONTINUE TO, IF THEY SCALE IN THE SPACE, UM, I KNOW, AND THE OHIO BUILDING CODES REVISED EVERY COUPLE YEARS, UNLIKE OUR ZONING CODE.

UM, THEY ARE LOOKING AT HOW IT'S STORED, HOW MUCH CAN BE STORED, AND IF YOU EXCEED THAT, YOU NEED TO DO X, Y, Z TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE STILL IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD STILL APPLY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THAT PROCESS.

AND, AND THUS THAT GETS TO MY PREVIOUS STATEMENTS ABOUT THE CLEAN PRODUCTION PRINCIPLES AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT OUR DEFINITION OF MINIMAL OR MINIMIZE IS.

UM, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THE CRUX WITH, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE QUESTION ABOUT THE CODE.

UM, AND THEN JUST MY LAST COMMENT, BECAUSE I KNOW THE TIME'S GETTING LATE, BUT I DID WANNA COMMENT ON TRAFFIC.

YOU KNOW, I READ THROUGH EVERY SINGLE COMMENT THAT WAS SUBMITTED, AND I THINK TRAFFIC WAS PROBABLY IN THE TOP THREE CONCERNS.

WE DON'T REALLY ADDRESS TRAFFIC THAT MUCH.

AND I THINK PART OF IT IS BECAUSE A COSBY ROAD STUDY, UM, THAT WAS INITIALLY IN MAY OF 2026 ISN'T GONNA BE COMPLETED.

AND IN FACT, IT'S NOT GONNA BE COMPLETED BY THE TIME THAT WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THIS.

AND SO, I GUESS A QUESTION I HAVE IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ASSURANCES WHAT COMMITMENTS, UM, CAN WE MAKE ABOUT INCORPORATING THESE FINDINGS INTO THE CODE? UM, HAVE THERE BEEN ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, TRUCK ROUTE DESIGNATIONS, NO TIME OF DAY DELIVERY, UH, YOU KNOW, NO SERVICE AREA ORIENTATION REQUIREMENTS, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF STUFF.

'CAUSE THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE CAN INCORPORATE INTO THE CODE THAT I THINK WOULD ALLAY A LOT OF THE CONCERNS OR RESIDENTS HAVE ABOUT TRAFFIC, ABOUT TRAFFIC POLLUTION, ABOUT, YOU KNOW, TRAFFIC SAFETY.

SO TRAFFIC, WHAT WE CAN CONTROL FROM TRAFFIC IS MORE OF A SITE ACCESS.

UM, SO WE HAVE TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO ALL PROPERTIES, UM, ALL FIVE, I THINK IT'S FIVE PROPERTIES HERE.

UM, THREE PROPERTY OWNERS, IF ANY INDIVIDUAL SITE WANTED TO DEVELOP BY THEMSELVES, WE WOULD HAVE TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THEM.

UM, NOW WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO, AND I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE STUDIES THAT WE'VE DONE WITH COS GRAY ROAD AND SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY PLANNING EFFORTS AND SHOWING INTERNAL STREET PUBLIC STREETS, IS TRYING TO GET TRAFFIC AWAY FROM COSWAY ROAD FOR THESE BUS BUSINESSES.

THAT'S A CHALLENGE WHEN IT COMES TO ZONING BECAUSE WE HAVE TO PROVIDE ACCESS.

SO PART OF IT IS MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PLANNING AHEAD, UM, WE, IF IT, IF IT DEVELOPS ALL AS ONE, IF THAT WERE TO HAPPEN, THAT IS EASIER TO PROVIDE ACCESS INTERNAL TO THE SITE RATHER THAN PROVIDING ACCESS FROM COS GRAY ROAD, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO PROVIDE MORE INDEPENDENT ACCESSES TO COS GRAY ROAD.

WE WANT TO DIRECT TRAFFIC UP TO SHIRE RINGS AND THEN UP NORTH TO COS GRAY.

SO I THINK ADDRESSING TRAFFIC IS, CAN BE A CHALLENGE WHEN IT COMES TO ZONING.

I, THAT'S HOW WE'VE TRIED TO ACHIEVE THIS AND PROGRESSING THE OTHER STUDIES THAT WE'VE DONE OUTSIDE OF THE ZONING CODE.

UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAD ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANTED TO SHARE WITH THAT.

TO AND FROM THOSE SPACES.

UM, FIRST I'D LIKE TO THANK THE RESIDENTS FOR COMING OUT AND SHARING WITH US YOUR THOUGHTS.

I, I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT.

AND, UM, AND FOR YOU, PARTICULARLY THE YOUNG PEOPLE, WE'VE LOST MOST OF THEM BECAUSE THE HOUR IS LATE, BUT, UH, REALLY DO APPRECIATE THAT INPUT.

UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS, WAS ONCE A YOUNG PERSON IN THIS COMMUNITY AND HAVE SEEN A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT HAPPEN OVER THE COURSE OF TIME.

AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT KIDS MAKING THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, I, I ANTICIPATE A ROADWAY NETWORK THAT IS SAFER IN THE FUTURE THAN IT IS IN THE PRESENT.

UM, YOU KNOW, I RECALL WHEN SAWMILL ROAD WAS A TWO LANE ROAD OPEN, DITCH TWO LANE ROAD, VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT COS GRAY ROAD IS TODAY.

THAT ROADWAY, UM, LIES WHOLLY WITHIN THE CITY OF COLUMBUS AND SAWMILL ROAD DEVELOPED INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY.

UM, AVERY, YOU KNOW, FRANCE ROAD WAS FOR A VERY LONG TIME, A TWO LANE ROAD WITH AN OPEN DITCH, UM, WHICH WAS DEVELOPED AND TURNED INTO A BEAUTIFUL ROADWAY NETWORK THAT IS INCREASINGLY SAFER THAN WHAT IT WAS AS A TWO LANE ROAD.

SO WHEN I THINK OF WHAT CAUSED GRAY ROAD IS GOING TO BE IN THE FUTURE, IT IS A MORE BEAUTIFUL AND A SAFER ROAD THAN IT IS TODAY.

UM, TWO LANE ROADS WITH OPEN DITCHES REALLY AREN'T CONDUCIVE TO, UM, TO A, A MORE URBAN ENVIRONMENT OR CERTAINLY A SUBURBAN ENVIRONMENT OF WHAT IT IS TODAY.

SO, UM, I I BELIEVE THAT WE, UH, THAT DEVELOPMENT WILL SPUR SAFETY IN THOSE PLACES AND, AND CERTAINLY FOR THE, THE STUDENTS THAT MOVE

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AND, UH, IT WOULD BE MY EXPECTATION THAT DEVELOPMENT WOULD HELP SOME OF THOSE ISSUES IN THE AREA AS THEY HAVE THROUGHOUT OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY.

UM, WHEN IT COMES TO TALKING ABOUT, UM, DEGREES OF SAFETY RELATIVE TO WHATEVER RESEARCH OR CHEMICALS MIGHT BE, UH, STORED OR USED, UTILIZED WITHIN A, A BUILDING ENVELOPE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, THE, THE CODE STATES THAT THERE, NONE OF THESE MATERIALS ARE GONNA BE STORED OUTSIDE, UM, WHICH PROVIDES A LEVEL OF PROTECTION, BUT PERHAPS THERE IS ROOM FOR, UH, ADDITIONAL LEVELS OF PROTECTION FOR THE MOST EGREGIOUS CHEMICALS THAT COULD BE STORED ON SITE.

UH, FOR MANY YEARS I HAD A CHEMICAL APPLICATOR'S LICENSE AND HAVE OPERATED IN THOSE SPACES FOR ALMOST THE ENTIRETY OF MY CAREER.

AND, UM, UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WHO REGULATES THOSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD INSPECTIONS VERY FREQUENTLY FROM THE EPA, THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

UH, A NUMBER OF FOLKS WOULD COME AND VISIT.

AND I, I DO BELIEVE THAT THOSE INSPECTIONS ARE PROBABLY BEST SUITED FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT DO IT ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

UM, AND SO THERE IS SOME LEVEL IN COMFORT IN THAT, BUT, BUT WE COULD HAVE SOME LIMITATIONS ON, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT DEGREE OF MATERIALS MIGHT BE PRESENT, UM, IN, IN THESE AREAS.

UH, ALSO WITH THE 200 FOOT SETBACK, THAT IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SETBACK OF ANYWHERE IN THE CITY.

UM, SO AMONG THE HIGHEST, SO IT IS, UH, I I THINK IT IS, IS GONE AN EXTREME AMOUNT TO PROTECT ADJACENCY.

UM, THERE ARE TRANSITIONS ALL OVER THE CITY, UM, AND THIS IS THE, UH, LARGEST TRANSITIONARY ZONE THAT, THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY.

SO THIS IS OF THE HIGHEST STATE OF THAT.

WHEN YOU MENTION A ROADWAY COMING THROUGH A HISTORICAL HOME, I, I WOULD NEVER SUPPORT WE, THEY DRAW LINES ON MAPS AND THAT ISN'T AN EXCUSE, IT'S A REALITY.

BUT, UH, WE, I DON'T THINK THIS COUNCIL WOULD EVER BE SUPPORTIVE OF, OF TAKING AWAY A HISTORIC HOME THAT WAS TRULY HISTORIC, UM, TO PUT A ROAD, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WILL, WHEN WHEN THOSE TIMES COME, WE LAY THOSE ROADS OUT ACCORDINGLY.

AND I, I THINK IT'S PROBABLY NOT RIGHT THAT, THAT IT GOES THROUGH YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW.

WE PROBABLY NEED TO UPDATE OUR MAPS.

UM, SO THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I WOULD EVER BE SUPPORTIVE OF DOING.

UM, SO ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE SO MUCH VACANT LAND, YOU CAN PUT A ROAD IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLACES, AND WE WOULD, MY VOTE WOULD ALWAYS BE TO PUT IT IN AN APPROPRIATE PLACE AND NOT, NOT DESTROY SOMETHING HISTORIC.

YOU SEE THE EFFORTS, WE'VE GONE TO THE WHO THE TWO HISTORIC FARMS, UM, THAT EXIST TODAY TO HIGHLIGHT THOSE AND NOT TO DESTROY THOSE.

SO I THINK THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE CHARACTER OF THIS BODY OF PEOPLE.

UM, SO PERHAPS WE CAN, CAN DO MORE, UM, TO, IN THAT SPACE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ASSURANCES HAPPEN.

UM, AND I THINK THE WAREHOUSE AND THE DISTRIBUTION, I, I, I AGREE WITH THE NOT HAVING PEOPLE PICK THINGS UP THERE BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WILL EVOLVE HOW, UM, YOU KNOW, AMAZON OR HER OR WHATEVER MIGHT HAPPEN.

AND PERHAPS IF THEY HAD SOME WAREHOUSING SPACE THERE AND THEY ALLOWED PICKUP, YOU'D HAVE JUST CARS COMING BACK AND FORTH ALL DAY LONG.

SO I'M SUPPORTIVE OF, OF LIMITING THE RETAIL ASPECTS OF THEIR, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I, I CERTAINLY WOULD, WOULD DEMAND THAT WHATEVER ROADWAY NETWORK THAT WE PUT TOGETHER IN THERE WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE TRAFFIC THAT WOULD TRAVEL ON IT.

UM, SO ONCE WE HAVE THE, THE COS GRAY ROAD CORRIDOR STUDY AND ROADWAY NETWORK COMPLETE, AND WE HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ZONING THAT WILL BE ON PLA IN PLACE HERE, THAT THE ROADWAY WILL BE DESIGNED IN, IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WOULD BE SENSITIVE TO THE VEHICLES THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO TRAVEL ON IT.

UM, SO I, I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE INPUT.

I APPRECIATE STAFF'S WORK ON THIS.

UM, YOU KNOW, THESE SETBACKS AND THESE MOUNDS ARE, ARE AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN ANY PLACE WE'VE EVER DONE IN THE CITY.

UH, AND YOU KNOW, I I THINK THAT IS REALLY A LOVELY STATEMENT AND A COMMITMENT TO

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THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS.

SO, UM, WITH THAT, IF, SORRY, I HAD ONE OTHER THING I FOUND IN MY NOTES I FORGOT TO ASK ABOUT.

PLANNING AND ZONING ASKED YOU TO INCLUDE THE, UM, DOES NOT CREATE ANY MEASURABLE INCREASE OF HAZARDOUS EMISSIONS TO NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES IN THAT, UM, DEVELOPMENT REVIEW SECTION, PAY WAS, DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPLICATION SECTION.

WAS THERE DISCUSSION ON DOES NOT CREATE ANY MEASURABLE INCREASE OF HAZARDOUS EMISSIONS OR NOISE EMISSIONS? WAS THERE A REASON WHY NOISE WAS LEFT OUT FROM THAT SENTENCE? 'CAUSE I WOULD THINK THAT WE WOULD, SO NOISE IS ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING WE WANT TO CONSIDER IN THIS, AND IT DOES INCLUDE NOISE ABOVE THAT LAST SENTENCE.

UH, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL EMISSIONS, NOISE, TRAFFIC, LIGHTING, OTHER OFFSITE EFFECTS.

YEAH, I, I WAS LOOKING AT THE CLAUSE ON PAGE, UH, WHAT IS THIS 41 UNDER DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPLICATIONS B, IT'S AT THE VERY TOP OF THE PAGE AND IT SAYS THAT YOU'RE GONNA ASK FOR DATA USING CURRENTLY ACCEPTABLE METHODS OF TESTING, THAT THE USE DOES NOT CREATE ANY MEASURABLE INCREASE OF HAZARDS EMISSIONS TO NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES.

WE CAN, I THINK, I THINK WE MIGHT WANNA ADD NOISE TO THAT TOO.

UM, AND THEN I'VE REMEMBERED ONE OTHER THING THERE.

SHE HAD ASKED ABOUT THE DEFINITION, AT ONE POINT WE HAD A DEFINITION OF DATA CENTERS.

I'M ASSUMING, DID WE TAKE THAT OUT THEN? BECAUSE WE REMOVED DATA CENTERS FROM THE USE.

I KNOW AT ONE TIME WE WORKED, LIKE WE REALLY TRIED TO CRAFT A DEFINITION OF WHAT COULD BE AN ACCEPTABLE, THOSE, YOU KNOW, SERVER ROOM.

IT'S KIND OF INWARD FACING VERSUS OUTWARD FACING.

LIKE WE HAD THIS REALLY ROBUST DEFINITION AT ONE TIME.

UM, AND THEN I'M THINKING MAYBE WE REMOVED IT BECAUSE WE TOOK IT OFF THE TABLE.

UM, I MEAN, I, I'M OKAY WITH LEAVING IT ON THE TABLE AND LEAVING IT BLANK AND, AND LEAVING A DEFINITION IN THERE.

I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS THAT.

I KNOW SHE BROUGHT UP THAT COMMENT.

UM, I DON'T KNOW WE HAVE, IF WE DIDN'T DO A HEAD COUNT ON THAT PARTICULAR COMMENT, BUT, UM, I WOULD BE FINE WITH LEAVING IT IN THE TABLE.

SO, MS. GRAHAM, WE DO HAVE A DEFINITION FOR DATA CENTERS CURRENTLY IN THE CODE.

YEAH, I I THOUGHT WE MM-HMM .

DID ONE AT ONE TIME.

, I KNOW I DID ONE, IT'S A LOT OF PAGES.

I READ IT AT 1.2, BUT THEN I JUST DIDN'T SEE IT IN THE EXCERPT OR IN, IN WHAT WE'VE BEEN PROVIDED HERE.

IS IT JUST NOT IN HERE, BUT IT'S SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE CODE? YEAH, WITHIN THE, SO THE CODE AMENDMENTS DOCUMENT THAT WE PROVIDED IS JUST SUMMARIZING THE THING.

IT'S JUST PULLING OUT THE THINGS THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING, UM, THAT IS NOT THE ENTIRETY OF THE CODE.

SO IT IS STILL IN THERE.

I WILL GO FIND IT.

IF THERE IS NOTHING FURTHER, UH, THIS IS, IS, UH, SCHEDULED FOR SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED FOR JULY THE FIRST, 2026.

SO WE WILL, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR UPDATES AND FEEDBACK AT THAT POINT IN TIME.

INTRODUCTION, PUBLIC HEARING VOTE RESOLUTION PORTION OF OUR AGENDA.

THIS BRINGS US TO THE

[Resolution 27-26 ]

AND WE WILL BEGIN WITH RESOLUTION 27 DASH 26, ACCEPTING THE LOWEST IN BEST BID FOR THE MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM, AVERY ROAD SHARED USE PATH, KRAMER'S CROSSING TO WARNER, WARNER TEMPLE PROJECT.

I THANK YOU.

AND WE WILL, OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE BROUGHT FORWARD THIS EVENING BY BRIAN GABLE.

STAFF RECOMMENDS COUNSEL APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION 27 DASH 26, ACCEPTING AS LOWEST AND BEST THE BID OF CAPSTONE AND ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED IN THE AMOUNT OF $282,391 AND 25 CENTS FOR THIS PROJECT.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL STAFF CONDUCTED A COMPETITIVE BID PROCESS FOR THE MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM, AVERY ROAD SHARED USE PASS FROM KRAMER CROSSING TO WARNER TEMPLE, UH, EXCUSE ME, FROM WARNER TEMPLE PROJECT.

THIS PROJECT WILL CONSTRUCT APPROXIMATELY 1300 FEET OF SHARED USE PATH ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF AVERY ROAD FROM KRAMER'S CROSSING DRIVE TO THE EXISTING PATH AT 57 45 AVERY ROAD, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY SIX, EXCUSE ME, 460 FEET SOUTH OF WARNER TEMPLE ROAD.

FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT IS FROM THE 2026 THROUGH 2030 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF 350,000 FROM THE MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM.

THE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE FOR THIS, UH, PROJECT IS $335,000.

ON MAY 7TH, 2026, FOUR BIDS WERE RECEIVED AND PUBLICLY OPENED.

CAPSTONE AND ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED SUBMITTED THE LOWEST AND BEST BID OF $282,391 AND 25 CENTS.

CONSTRUCTION IS EXPEC, EXCUSE ME, IS EXPECTED TO COMMENCE IN JULY AND BE COMPLETE IN SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR.

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I'LL BE GLAD TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS COUNSEL MAY HAVE REGARDING THIS RESOLUTION.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK STAFF AND COUNCIL FOR MAKING THIS A PRIORITY TO GET THIS DONE.

IT'S, UM, IT'S A, IT'S MUCH NEEDED AND I WILL PERSONALLY ENJOY IT.

IT IS A GREAT TRANSPORTATION ADDITION.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? MS. SALUTO? YES.

MAYOR AROSE GROOM? YES.

DR.

LAM? YES.

DASH 26 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, WILDLIFE SERVICES.

RESOLUTION 28

[Resolution 28-26 ]

HONOR SET.

OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE BROUGHT FORWARD THIS EVENING BY EMILY VER.

ALSO HAVE, THERE ALSO HAVE BEEN IN THE LAST MONTH OR SO, A COUPLE OF RECENT REPORTS OF DEER STRIKING RESIDENTS CHASING DOGS.

GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

UM, AS COUNCIL IS AWARE, THERE'S BEEN AN ONGOING DISCUSSION ABOUT DEER MANAGEMENT IN DUBLIN SINCE FEBRUARY, 2022.

THERE HAVE BEEN ABOUT 20 DIFFERENT PUBLIC MEETING TOUCHPOINT FOR RESIDENTS TO ENGAGE WITH THIS TOPIC BETWEEN CITY COUNCIL AND CSAC.

UM, I WON'T RUN THROUGH ALL OF THEM SPECIFICALLY HERE.

BUT, UM, I DO WANT TO THANK AGAIN, OUR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS FROM OHIO STATE METRO PARKS AND ODNR, THAT WERE PART OF THE APRIL 20TH WORK SESSION.

UM, DR.

GREG HI, SUSAN IS WITH US AGAIN THIS EVENING TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF COUNCIL HAS ANY.

UM, AT THE MAY 11TH, 2026, CITY COUNCIL MEETING, COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF MOVED TO DIRECT STAFF TO PROCEED WITH CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS RELATED TO A DEAR MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.

AT THAT TIME, COUNCIL EMPHASIZED THE NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY, EDUCATION AND A STRONG ETHICAL FOUNDATION FOR ANY PROGRAM.

COUNCIL NOTED THE SAFETY CONCERNS AND BROADER ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF DEER, SUCH AS DAMAGE TO NATIVE PLANT SPECIES EFFECTS ON WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND THE SPREAD OF TICKS.

THEY ALSO, UH, STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING A CLEAR PUBLIC EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGY AND SUPPORTED ESTABLISHING A DEER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM CONSISTING OF TARGETED REMOVAL BY TRAINED WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS WITH THE FOLLOWING GOALS.

SO BROKEN INTO THREE DIFFERENT BUCKETS OF PUBLIC SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT AND ETHICS.

THE GOALS ARE REDUCE AGGRESSIVE DEER ENCOUNTERS, REDUCE DEER VEHICLE COLLISIONS OR NEAR COLLISIONS, REDUCE THE ANNUAL NUMBER OF DEAD DEER PICKUPS, LIMIT PROPERTY AND LANDSCAPE DAMAGE, AND REDUCE THE NUMBER OF RESIDENT COMPLAINTS, AS WELL AS REDUCE THE DEER POPULATION AS INFORMED BY AN ANNUAL POPULATION INDEX.

SO TO ADVANCE THIS COUNSEL UNANIMOUSLY MOVED TO DIRECT STAFF TO PROCEED WITH CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS RELATED TO A DEER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.

SO, JUST TO RUN THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND JUST AS A REFRESHER, THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS THAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE DEFINE CARRYING CAPACITY.

SO THE FIRST ONE IS BIOLOGICAL CARRYING CAPACITY.

THIS INCLUDES EVERYTHING RELATED TO WHAT THE LANDSCAPE CAN SUPPORT.

SO THAT'S THE FOOD, WATER COVER AND SPACE REQUIRED FOR A HEALTHY WILDLIFE POPULATION.

WHEN THE NUMBER OF DEER EXCEEDS WHAT THE LANDSCAPE CAN SUPPORT, UM, THE POPULATION WILL EXPERIENCE A RAPID REDUCTION, UM, UNTIL IT IS ABLE TO LEVEL OUT TO WHAT THE LANDSCAPE CAN SUPPORT.

WE ALSO TALK ABOUT SOCIOLOGICAL CARING CAPACITY.

SO THIS OCCURS WHEN RESIDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE REACHED THEIR LEVEL OF TOLERANCE OF DEALING WITH WILDLIFE CONFLICT.

THE CHART ON THE RIGHT, THOSE NUMBERS AREN'T EXACT NUMBERS, IT'S JUST TO SHOW THE DIFFERENCE IN BIOLOGICAL CARING CAPACITY.

SO YOU'RE GONNA REACH THAT SOCIOLOGICAL CARING CAPACITY FAR BEFORE YOU HIT BIOLOGICAL CARRYING CAPACITY.

WE ALSO TALK ABOUT A BIOLOGICAL BENCHMARK, WHICH AS DEFINED IN A CAPSTONE REPORT PRODUCED BY STUDENTS AT OHIO STATE, IDENTIFIED A HEALTHY POPULATION OF DEER BEING AROUND 20 TO 25 DEER PER SQUARE MILE.

AND OD NR HAS ADVISED THAT DUBLIN IS NOT CURRENTLY AT BIOLOGICAL CARRYING CAPACITY BECAUSE THERE'S AN ABSENCE OF WIDESPREAD DISEASE STARVATION OR A SUSTAINED RISE IN DEER VEHICLE COLLISIONS.

SO, UM, THESE ARE INCIDENTS THAT ARE REPORTED TO THE CITY.

SO OUR DATA IS AS GOOD AS WHAT WE GET FROM RESIDENTS.

SO IN 2025, THERE WERE 20 REPORTS OF DOG ATTACKS AND 35 REPORTS OF STALKING AND CHASING.

UM, AND IN THAT IS WAY UP FROM 2023 AND 2024, IN WHICH THERE WERE THREE AND FOUR RESPECTIVELY.

UH, SURVEY RESULTS SHOWED THAT THERE WERE 120 REPORTS OF DEER, UM, OF DEER ATTACKS, THOSE BEING ONES THAT HAD STOMPED KICKED GORED, HEAD BUTTED OR OTHERWISE INJURED A PET.

THERE WERE FOUR REFERENCES TO PETS BEING KILLED BY DEER AND 45 DISTINCT REFERENCES TO DEER CHASING AND OR STALKING PEOPLE.

UM, THERE WAS

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UM, A COUPLE DIFFERENT DOGS HAVE BEEN ATTACKED IN THE LAST MONTH OR SO, UM, IN DIFFERENT AREAS AROUND THE CITY.

SO, UM, WE HAVE ALSO HEARD THAT THE, THIS IS A HIGH NUMBER.

UM, FOLKS INVOLVED IN THE WORTHINGTON PROGRAM SHARED THAT THIS EXCEEDS THE NUMBER THAT THEY HAD RE RECEIVED REPORTS OF AT THE TIME OF THEIR PROGRAM.

SOME ADDITIONAL SURVEY RESULTS THAT WE ANALYZED.

SO, JUST BY WAY OF BACKGROUND HERE, THE SURVEY LAUNCHED ON JANUARY 6TH.

IT WAS OPEN FOR APPROXIMATELY SEVEN WEEKS, AND WE, WE RECEIVED OVER 3,600 RESPONSES TO THAT.

UM, WE HAD 11 CONTACTS SINCE THE SURVEY NINE SUPPORTED MANAGEMENT.

AND EVEN SINCE THE COUNCIL PACKET RAN OUT, WE HAD A FEW ADDITIONAL CONTACTS.

I BELIEVE THERE WERE THREE CITING CONCERNS ABOUT DEER SINCE THE COUNCIL PACKET WAS ISSUED.

SO, UM, THE SURVEY RESULTS INDICATE TO US THAT 41% OF RESIDENTS SAY THAT THERE IS NO NEED TO MANAGE THE HERD, WHILE 59%, UM, SAID THAT THE, THE HERD IS INCREASING, THE POPULATION IS INCREASING AND SHOULD BE MANAGED FURTHER, 49% REPORTED, UM, OR SUPPORTED USING LETHAL MANAGEMENT TO REGULATE THE POPULATION.

33% OPPOSED AND 18% NEITHER SUPPORTED NOR OPPOSED.

FROM APRIL 24TH TO APRIL 27TH, THERE WERE TWO DRONES FLOWN USING HIGH RELU, HIGH RESOLUTION THERMAL IMAGING FLOWN IN THE SYSTEMATIC GRID PATTERN.

THE DRONES COUNTED A TOTAL OF 528 DEER ESTABLISHING A BASELINE POPULATION ESTIMATE TO HELP INFORM ANY KIND OF PROGRAM.

THIS IS SERVING AS ANOTHER DATA POINT TO INFORM DECISIONS AND TRACK PROGRESS.

AND THE HOTSPOTS REALLY ALIGNED WITH DRONES THAT, UH, DUBLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT FLEW IN FEBRUARY AND WOULD HELP INFORM REMOVAL LOCATION DISCUSSIONS.

SO I WANTED TO RUN THROUGH A FEW OF THE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS THAT ARE NON-LETHAL THAT, UH, COUNCIL HAS REVIEWED.

CSAC HAS REVIEWED, AND STAFF HAS REVIEWED EXTENSIVELY WITH THE LOCAL EXPERTS.

SO THE FIRST ONE IN THE MAIN ONE THAT IS REP, UM, UH, RECOMMENDED BY ODNR IS AN OUTDOOR FEEDING PROHIBITION.

CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED THAT IN 2023, AND WE HAVE BEEN ENFORCING THAT SINCE.

UM, RESIDENTS OFTEN ASK MYSELF, BARBARA RAY, OUR NATURE EDUCATION COORDINATOR ABOUT A RELOCATION PROGRAM.

AND THAT'S ACTUALLY ILLEGAL.

UM, UNDER OHIO REVISED CODE, IT IS ILLEGAL TO TRAP AND RELOCATE DEER.

THIS IS BECAUSE IT CAUSES, IT COULD, IT'S, IT'S HARMFUL TO THE DEER.

IT CAUSES POTENTIALLY LETHAL LEVELS OF STRESS AND IT CAN ACTUALLY LEAD TO DISEASE SPREAD.

FURTHER BIRTH CONTROL, INCLUDING SURGICAL STERILIZATION AND CONTRACEPTIVES, ARE ALSO ASKED ABOUT.

AND GENERALLY THOSE ARE ONLY APPROVED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES.

THEY HAVE A LIMITED EFFECTIVENESS ON AN OPEN HERD.

THEY DON'T REDUCE THE EXISTING POPULATION, THEY'LL JUST MANAGE THE GROWING POPULATION.

UM, AND IT ACTUALLY DOES EXTEND THE LIFESPAN OF A DOUGH.

SO THAT LED US INTO THE LETHAL MANAGEMENT OPTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN OHIO.

THE FIRST ONE BEING TARGETED REMOVAL.

THIS WOULD INCLUDE A CITY CONTRACTING WITH TRAINED PROFESSIONALS.

THE PROFESSIONALS PARTNERING WITH THE DUBLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT.

UM, THEY SELECT THE REMOVAL SITES.

OPERATIONS ARE CONDUCTED AFTER DARK OVERNIGHT.

IT'S CITED AS THE QUICKEST WAY TO REDUCE A POPULATION.

UM, AND THEN THERE'S A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THE DEER CAN BE HANDLED FROM THAT POINT.

UM, THE OTHER ONE BEING ARCHERY.

IT HAS A LOWER DIRECT COST, BUT A HIGH LEVEL OF STAFF INVOLVEMENT, UM, WITH SIGNIFICANT OVERSIGHT AND PERMITTING PROVIDED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

UM, IT'S LESS EFFECTIVE AT QUICKLY REDUCING A POPULATION, BUT IT CAN BE USED AS A LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT STRATEGY TO COMPLEMENT A TARGETED REMOVAL PROGRAM.

AND BOTH HAVE FOOD PANTRY SUPPORT.

SO THE ABILITY TO SUPPORT UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.

UH, WORTHINGTON REPORTED 4,200 POUNDS OF VENISON WERE DONATED THROUGH THEIR PROGRAM IN YEAR ONE.

UM, THEY SAID THE WORTHINGTON RESOURCE PANTRY WAS REALLY LOVING ALL OF THE DONATED VENISON.

UM, AND THE DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY IS AWARE OF THIS ONGOING DISCUSSION.

SO I WON'T READ THROUGH EVERY BULLET ON THIS.

THIS WAS, UH, AVAILABLE FOR COUNCIL'S REVIEW.

BUT I DID WANNA HIGHLIGHT AS PART OF THIS, THAT, UH, AS PART OF THE CONTRACT, AND UNFORTUNATELY JEFF WITH USDA, HE WAS HERE EARLIER THIS EVENING, BUT HE HAS AN EARLY MORNING TRAINING, UH, TOMORROW.

AND SO HE HAD TO DIP OUT AND HE DID, UH, UH, WANT ME TO APOLOGIZE ON HIS BEHALF.

BUT, UH, HE SAID IF THERE ARE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, HE WOULD BE HAPPY TO SPEAK, UH, TO ANYTHING LATER.

BUT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT HERE THAT, UM, USDA WOULD BE CONDUCTING THE REMOVAL ACTIVITIES BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1ST, 2026 AND MARCH 31ST, 2027.

THEY WOULD BE REMOVING UP TO 100 DEER, UM, WITH THE OPTION TO REMOVE AN ADDITIONAL 25 IF CONTRACTED FUNDS STILL REMAIN.

SO IF THEY ARE ABLE TO REALLY, REALLY QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY REMOVE A HUNDRED DEER AND THERE'S STILL MONEY, THEY'RE ONLY GOING TO BE ASKING FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF WORK, THEY ACTUALLY DO, THERE'S STILL MONEY AVAILABLE IN THE CONTRACT, THEY WOULD THEN BE ABLE TO REMOVE THE ADDITIONAL 25 PER THE CONTRACT.

SO, UM, THAT WOULD BE, AGAIN, STARTING THIS FALL THROUGH MARCH 31ST.

UM, HIGHLIGHTING KIND OF ON

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THE DUBLIN SIDE, WHAT WE WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR IS IDENTIFYING THE PROCESSOR AND WORKING WITH, UH, USDA TO SEND THE MEAT TO THE PROCESSOR AND THEN IDENTIFY THE DONATION LOCATION FOR THAT.

SO, UM, JUST SOME ADDITIONAL TERMS WITHIN THE CONTRACT.

ANOTHER, UM, UH, EXCUSE ME, DUBLIN RESPONSIBILITY WOULD BE HAVING, UH, THE DUBLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT ON SITE.

THEY WOULD BE THERE TO HELP VERIFY THAT ANY AREA THAT OPERATIONS ARE OCCURRING IS CLEAR OF PEOPLE HELPING TO SECURE THE AREA, PUTTING DRONES UP TO HELP SEE, BOTH IDENTIFY WHERE DEER ARE, BUT ALSO FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

SO, UM, USDA WOULD THEN BE CONDUCTING THE ACTIVITIES AT DESIGNATED SITES, WHICH WOULD BE, UH, SELECTED AS PART OF THEIR CONTRACTED RESPONSIBILITIES.

UH, THE AGREEMENT BEING EFFECTIVE FROM NOVEMBER 1ST TO JUNE 30TH.

AND THIS ALLOWS TIME I DID NOT MENTION, BUT, UH, THIS ALLOWS TIME FOR FINAL INVER INVOICING AFTER OPERATIONS END SO THAT THE CONTRACT IS STILL IN PLACE AS WE'RE, UH, CONTINUING TO PAY THE, UH, FOR THE REIMBURSEMENT OF OPERATIONS.

SO, UM, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, UH, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND TRANSPARENCY ARE, UH, ESSENTIAL TO THIS.

SO COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING IS COLLABORATING WITH MURPHY EPSON ON A COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC RELATIONS AND INFORMATION CAMPAIGN, INCLUDING THREE PUBLIC EDUCATION SESSIONS, PROACTIVE OUTREACH TO LOCAL MEDIA, AND THE USE OF ALL CITY COMMUNICATION TOOLS, INCLUDING VIDEOS, PODCASTS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND HANDOUTS.

UM, AND WE ALSO ALSO PUT TOGETHER AN ETHICS STATEMENT, UH, WITH INPUT FROM DR.

HEIGHT, SUSAN.

UH, AND HE WAS VERY HELPFUL IN DEVELOPING THAT.

SO JUST TO RUN THROUGH WHAT THE PROGRAM WOULD LOOK LIKE.

SO, LIKE I SAID, BASED ON USDA STAFFING AVAILABILITY, THEY WILL REMOVE 100 DEER WITH AN OPTION TO REMOVE AN ADDITIONAL 25.

SO THEY'VE POINTED OUT THAT ONCE A PROGRAM BEGINS, RESIDENTS WILL EXPERIENCE DEER DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE THE DEER WILL, WE'RE INTRODUCING A PREDATOR TO THE ENVIRONMENT, SO THE DEER WILL START TO BE MORE HESITANT, UM, BECAUSE OF THAT.

SO, UH, PER THE CITY'S CODE, THERE IS A HUNTING PROHIBITION, BUT THERE IS ALSO AN EXCEPTION THAT EXISTS FOR THE CITY MANAGER TO PERMIT HUNTING, UM, THROUGH SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

UH, AND THAT IS JUST LISTED OUT IN THE CODE AS A CODIFIED EXCEPTION.

UH, AND GIVEN DUBLIN'S EXTENSIVE PARK SYSTEM, AND I SHOULD ADD, EXCUSE ME, THAT, UM, THAT PERMIT IS FOR A PUBLIC SPACE.

UM, SO WE CAN'T, UH, WITH PER THE CODE, THE EXISTING CODE, THERE COULD BE NO HUNTING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.

HOWEVER, GIVEN OUR EXTENSIVE PARK SYSTEM, IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THERE ARE SUFFICIENT PUBLIC LOCATIONS.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE WORTHINGTON SIDE OF THINGS, THEY DON'T HAVE AS MANY PARKS, SO THEY REALLY NEEDED TO RELY ON THOSE PRIVATE SPACES IN ORDER FOR THEIR OPERATIONS.

WE DON'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM AS MUCH BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF PARKS IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLACES AROUND THE CITY THAT WE CAN REACH.

SO THE LOCATION SELECTION IS BEING LED BY USDA.

WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IS THE ABILITY TO SHOOT FROM AN ELEVATED PLATFORM ANGLED TOWARD THE GROUND OR A BACKSTOP.

UM, AND THAT BACKSTOP COULD BE A HILL.

UM, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR VEGETATION OR SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS THAT COULD BE SERVING AS A BACKSTOP.

UH, THE, UH, LOCATION SELECTION IS GONNA BE INFORMED BY ALL THE DATA THAT STAFF HAS PUT TOGETHER, UM, BEING THE DRONE SURVEY RESULTS, CRASH DATA, DEAD DEER PICKUPS, AND OTHER DATA POINTS.

WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON PUTTING TOGETHER A MAP FOR THEM TO SEE EVERY POINT OF DATA IN ONE PLACE AND MAKE IT A LOT EASIER.

UM, AND WE'LL ALSO BE ENGAGING WITH, UH, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP TO IDENTIFY PROPERTIES IN THE UNINCORPORATED TOWNSHIP TO SEE IF THOSE ARE OPTIONS.

SO USDA WILL THEN BE PUTTING BAITING STATIONS OUT PRIOR TO OPERATION START REMOVAL.

OPERATIONS WOULD ONLY OCCUR AFTER DARK WHEN PARKS ARE ALREADY CLOSED.

UM, AS I MENTIONED, DUBLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL BE THERE TO ASSIST WITH MONITORING THE AREA FOR SAFETY.

UM, OPERATIONS MAY START IN ONE PARK AND MOVE TO ANOTHER PARK.

THEY REALLY NEED TO GO WHERE THE DEER ARE IN THAT EXACT MOMENT.

UM, BUT ALSO, LIKE I HAD SAID, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE'VE INTRODUCED A PREDATOR IN ONE PARK, THEY MIGHT BE GOING TO A DIFFERENT PARK MORE FREQUENTLY.

SO, UM, IT JUST HELPS THEM SPREAD OUT AND, UM, REMOVE MORE IN ONE EVENING FOR SAFETY, THE EXACT DATES, TIMES, AND LOCATIONS.

THIS IS JUST A BEST PRACTICE FROM USDA, WHAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM WORTHINGTON, UM, AND RECOMMENDED BY ODNR, THE EXACT DATES, TIMES, AND LOCATIONS SHOULD NOT BE MADE PUBLIC.

THAT'S BECAUSE THE PUBLIC MIGHT GATHER AT THOSE LOCATIONS.

PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE INTERESTED IN HEARING ABOUT THIS.

AND, UM, FOR RESIDENT SAFETY, WE WANT TO KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THE AREA, WHICH IS WHAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THERE FOR.

UM, HOWEVER, AS A REMINDER TO THE RESIDENTS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMMUNICATIONS, SIGNS WOULD BE POSTED SEVERAL DAYS IN ADVANCE SO THAT PARK GOERS KNOW OPERATIONS ARE OCCURRING HERE.

I NEED TO PLAN MY DOG WALKS AROUND NOT BEING HERE AFTER DUSK WHEN THE PARK IS CLOSED.

UM, AND THEN ANY RESIDENTS NEARBY, UH, WOULD BE NOTIFIED VIA DIRECT MAILER.

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WE'VE SPOKEN TO THORNS SPECIALTY MEET.

THEY'RE A FAMILY RUN BUSINESS LOCATED IN SOUTH FRANKLINTON.

UM, THEY ARE OUR IDENTIFIED PROCESSOR.

THEY, THEY PROCESS THE, UH, MEAT FOR METRO PARKS IN THEIR MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AS WELL.

THEY HAVE QUOTED THIS AT $130 PER DEER.

SO THAT IS ESTIMATED IF WE GET TO THE 125 DEER AS ABOUT 16,250.

UM, AND THIS IS OUR PREFERRED PROCESSOR BECAUSE THEY ARE MUCH CLOSER TO DUBLIN THAN PICK AWAY COUNTY.

SO IT IS A LOT MORE EFFICIENT FOR OUR STAFF TO GO PICK UP THE MEAT AND DELIVER IT TO THE DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY.

UM, DONATIONS WOULD BE MADE TO THE DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY, AND THE TOTAL PROGRAM COST IS ESTIMATED TO BE $168,263.

AND THAT INCLUDES POLICE DEPARTMENT OVERTIME, THAT PROCESSING FEE, THE USDA CONTRACT, WHICH IS $110,608.

AND THEN THE COMPOSTING.

SO ANOTHER PART OF DUBLIN'S OBLIGATION WILL BE THE REMOVAL OF THE NRAS, UM, AFTER THE FIELD DRESSING IS COMPLETED BY USDA.

SO THEY WOULD BE COMING IN DOING THE FIELD DRESSING, THEY JUST NEED THE NRAS TO BE TAKEN SOMEWHERE.

AND SO WE RECEIVED THAT QUOTE FROM GO ZERO, UM, WHO IS OUR CURRENT COMPOSTING PROVIDER.

AND WITH THAT STAFF IS RECOMMENDING ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION 28 26, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH USDA, UH, ANIMAL PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICES, WILDLIFE SERVICES TO CONDUCT A DEER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.

AND FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM CAN BE INCLUDED IN THE Q3 SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST IF DESIRED.

TAKE OUT ALL THOSE STATISTICS, PUT THAT OTHER STUFF IN, AND THEN JUST PUT A LINK TO THE, WHERE WE HAVE THE WEBSITE THAT HAS ALL THAT STUFF ON THERE.

WANNA TAKE A MOMENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT? IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION? UM, MOST MINOR AROUND KIND OF THE MESSAGING ASPECT OF IT.

I THOUGHT THE ETHICAL STATEMENT WAS GOOD.

I THINK IT CAPTURED, UM, WHAT WE WANTED TO SAY.

SO ON THAT NOTE, I THINK OUR, THE DOCUMENT THAT WAS LABELED, THE, UM, WAS IT MURPHY EPSON, THEIR PLAN? UM, I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE MORE FROM THAT ETHICS STATEMENT BECAUSE THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY STARTS OUT WITH SAYS, DUE TO COMPLAINTS OF AGGRESSIVE DEER RESIDENTS REPORTING DEER HARMING PETS AND PROPERTY, I DON'T, IN MY OPINION, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD EMPHASIZE THAT AS THE REASON WHY WE'RE DOING THIS.

I DON'T THINK THIS SHOULD BE COMPLAINT DRIVEN.

UM, I, I, THE ETHICAL STATEMENT REALLY TALKS ABOUT IT'S REALLY THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY THAT IS DRIVING THIS.

IT'S NOT THAT WE'VE HAD 20 PEOPLE COMPLAIN OR 200 PEOPLE COMPLAIN.

UM, SO I, I THINK WE NEED TO MINIMIZE AND REALLY NOT DISCUSS THE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS AND FOCUS THAT THIS IS FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR RESIDENTS, FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, FOR THE ECOSYSTEM, ALL THAT STUFF THAT GOT PUT IN THAT ETHICS STATEMENT.

UM, SO THAT'S WHAT SHOULD BE IN THAT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF WHY WE'RE DOING THIS.

AND THEN LIKEWISE, AS WE GO DOWN, UM, IT SAYS LIKE UNDER, AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT PAGE, IT TALKED ABOUT THE MESSAGING AND IT SAYS, BEGIN WITH THE PROBLEM.

AND IT SAYS, TALK ABOUT THE REPORTS OF AGGRESSIVE DEER AND PROPERTY.

AGAIN, I THINK THE EMPHASIS NEEDS TO BE FLIPPED.

AND AND MOST CERTAINLY WE CAN, WE HAVE ALL THAT DATA, WE HAVE THE REPORTS, WE HAVE ALL THAT CSAC STUFF, AND WE CAN CERTAINLY LINK IT.

UM, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE WANT TO SEE THE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS AND READ THOSE, GREAT.

I JUST DON'T THINK THAT, IN MY OPINION, THAT SHOULDN'T BE THE MESSAGE.

UM, THE OTHER DOCUMENT WAS, I, I JUST, I THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS IS THE, THE EMPHASIS IS THERE'S THIS ECOLOGICAL NEED.

WE HAVE SUSTAINABILITY AS ONE OF OUR, YOU KNOW, DRIVING FACTORS AND WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE A SUSTAINABLE ECOLOGY.

AND THAT'S, I THINK REALLY WHERE WE SHOULD BE THIS ECOSYSTEM, BALANCE PRESERVATION, SUSTAINABILITY, UM, HEALTH AND SAFETY.

SO IT'S, THEN THE OTHER ONE WAS THE, UM, THE OTHER DOCUMENT WAS LIKE THE ONE PAGER.

AND THIS, AGAIN, THE SAME KIND OF COMMENTS APPLY TO THAT.

UM, I, I THINK IN THAT ONE PAGER AT THE BOTTOM WHEN IT TALKED ABOUT TARGETED REMOVAL, I THINK WE NEED TO BE SPECIFIC AND SAY, 'CAUSE THE SENTENCE IS STRATEGICALLY SELECT REMOVAL SITES.

I THINK WE NEED TO SPECIFICALLY SAY THEY'RE GOING TO BE ON CITY OWNED LAND.

UM, 'CAUSE WE DID HAVE INFORMATION IN THERE ABOUT WORTHINGTON AND WHAT THEY DID, AND I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE A QUESTION THAT COMES UP.

SO WE NEED TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT IT'S CITY LAND.

AND THEN THERE WAS AGAIN, THE SECOND PAGE OF THAT, OF HOW TO DOUBLE AND DECIDE,

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UM, AND WHEN YOU, WHEN WE TELL 'EM WHAT'S NEXT, THEY'RE REALLY GONNA WANNA KNOW WHEN THERE'S NO WHEN IN HERE.

SO, UM, WE NEED TO SAY WHEN THAT WINDOW, WE CAN, OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T NEED TO PUT A SPECIFIC DATE OF NOVEMBER 1ST, BUT WE NEED TO PUT THOSE DATES OF WHEN CAN THEY EXPECT 'CAUSE THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET MOST INTERESTED AND WANNA KNOW WHEN IS THE TARGETED REMOVAL ACTUALLY STARTING.

SO I, I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE, UM, IN THAT WHAT'S NEXT STATEMENT.

LIKE I SAID, THE ETHICAL, UH, STATEMENT WAS FINE.

AND ONE OF THE DOCUMENTS, UM, IT MENTIONED, OH, SO THEY, WE HAD A PUBLIC MEETING.

THE FIRST ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO IS IN AUGUST, OR OH NO, I'M SORRY.

THE FIRST ONE WAS IN JUNE OR JULY.

I'M WONDERING IF MAYBE WE SHOULD PUT A S**T TO AUGUST JUST SO WE GET MORE ATTENDANCE.

SO MANY PEOPLE ARE BUSY IN GONE IN JUNE AND JULY AND I'M THINKING MAYBE THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST WE MIGHT GET MORE MAYBE AFTER THE START OF SCHOOL.

YEAH, THAT'S, I I WAS KIND OF THINKING MAYBE AFTER THE START OF SCHOOL WE'D GET BETTER PARTICIPATION.

WE CAN STILL KEEP ON TRACK BECAUSE THEN WE COULD DO LIKE THE SECOND MEETING IN SEPTEMBER AND THEN THE THIRD WOULD BE IN OCTOBER THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S THE MEANING WHERE WE'RE GONNA SAY, HERE, THESE ARE THE SITES AND THEN IT WILL BE FRESH IN THEIR MIND.

SO I JUST, MY SUGGESTION IS TO PUSH THE FIRST MEETING MAYBE TILL AUGUST, I THINK WE'D GET BETTER ATTENDANCE.

UM, I THINK THE HAVING THE WILDLIFE EXPERTS THAT CAME AND SPOKE WITH US AT THOSE MEETINGS WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.

'CAUSE I THINK THAT WAS MOST ENLIGHTENING TO ME, ESPECIALLY I SAID ALL THE COLLEGE STUFF AND THEN WE ALWAYS HAVE OUR FALL HOA MEETINGS.

SO I THINK WE SHOULD CERTAINLY HAVE A BOOTH AT THE HOA MEETING, LIKE SPECIFIC TO THIS.

AND THEN MAYBE THOSE EXPERTS COULD BE THERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.

I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT.

UM, OR MAYBE THEY PRESENT AT THAT PRESENT.

YEAH, EITHER PRESENT AT THE MEETING OR INCLUDE THEM IN THAT HO MEETING, HOA MEETING AND THEN HAVE STUFF THAT THOSE HOA LEADERS CAN ELECTRONICALLY SEND TO ALL OF THEIR PEOPLE.

BECAUSE I KNOW YOU SAY YOU'RE GONNA NOTE NOTICE NEARBY RESIDENTS AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DEFINITION OF NEARBY IS.

I CERTAINLY HOPE IT'S NOT OUR 300 FEET OR WHAT WE USE FOR OTHER THINGS.

SO, BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE ARE GONNA GET REALLY NERVOUS AND UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK ANYONE ON THE PERIMETER OF ANY OF THE PARKS WHERE THIS IS GONNA HAPPEN, EVEN IF IT'S HAPPENING WAY ON ONE SIDE OF THE PARK, NEEDS TO MAKE SURE WE GET THE WORD OUT AND THAT THEY GET NOTICE.

SO I THINK, OH, THE, UM, THE LAST THING I HAD TOO WAS, UM, I THINK IT'D BE HELPFUL TO INCLUDE INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE AND THEN THING ABOUT THE PROGRAM THAT'S HAPPENING AT GLACIER RIDGE OR THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING SO PEOPLE KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY OR VERY NEAR OUR COMMUNITY, UM, FOR YEARS NOW.

AND, UM, JUST SOME INFORMATION ON THAT AND, AND HOW THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT, HOW MANY THEY'VE REMOVED.

I THINK THAT WAS VERY INSIGHTFUL.

THE THE NUMBER WAS VERY HIGH.

UM, SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL AS WELL.

AND I THINK THAT IS ALL MY NOTES ON THAT ONE.

KNOW, WHEN YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE DRONE SURVEY, THE HIGHEST AVERAGE CLUSTERS, THE HIGHEST DENSITY CLUSTERS WERE IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS, UH, WORDS THREE AND FOUR.

SO THANK YOU.

THIS IS GREAT WORK.

AND I ECHO THE, UM, SENTIMENTS ABOUT THE ETHICAL STATEMENT.

ECHO STATEMENT I THINK IS REALLY GREAT.

AND I REALLY AGREE ACTUALLY I HAVE THE SAME NOTES WRITTEN DOWN TO THE EMPHASIZE MORE LIKE THE ECOSYSTEM TROPHIC EFFECTS, PREDATOR, PREDATOR, PREY DYNAMICS, VEGETATION REGROWTH, UM, AND I THINK THAT'LL DO A LOT TO ADDRESS THE ETHICAL CONCERNS BECAUSE THERE ARE REALLY LEGITIMATE ETHICAL OBJECTIONS THAT PEOPLE WILL HAVE.

AND SO I THINK THIS MIGHT BE A BETTER WAY OF ADDRESSING THAT.

UM, THE OTHER THING THAT I THINK MIGHT HELP WITH THE ETHICAL STATEMENT TOO, AND AGAIN I'M JUST DRAWING ON MY EXPERIENCE WITH, UH, MEDICAL RESEARCH, IS THAT IN OUR IRBS WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS.

AND I NOTICED THAT THAT WASN'T REALLY ADDRESSED HERE OTHER THAN SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST WHAT THE USDA DOES, AND I'M SURE THE USDA PROBABLY DOES HAVE SOME STATEMENTS ON ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS THAT WE MIGHT WANT INCLUDE, AGAIN, JUST TO KIND OF FORTIFY OUR ETHICAL STATEMENT.

THE QUESTION I DO HAVE FOR YOU IS THE NUMBER OF DEER THAT WE DECIDED UPON.

SO IT'S 100, YOU KNOW, AS MAYOR GROOMS POINTED OUT, UH, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS DUBLIN IS FOUR AND A HALF TIMES THE SIZE OF WORTHINGTON WORTHINGTON REMOVED A HUNDRED DEER.

AND THEY EVEN SAID THAT THAT WASN'T ENOUGH.

UM, AND SO I'M WONDERING IF THE 100 DEER PLUS AN ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE 25 IS ENOUGH TO, UM, REALLY ADDRESS SOME OF THE PROBLEMS THAT WE'RE HAVING WITH A DEER.

THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD TOO IS, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, IN THE WORTHINGTON UM, EXAMPLE, THEY RELIED MORE HEAVILY ON THE PRIVATE LOTS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT FIND A HEAVY DEER, UM, POPULATION DENSITY IN THEIR PARKS.

AND I SUSPECT THAT'S PROBABLY TRUE.

YOU

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AND SO I'M WONDERING, YOU KNOW, THE EFFICACY OF JUST FOCUSING ON OUR PARKS AND NOT RELYING ON THE PRIVATE LOTS LIKE THEY DID IN WORTHINGTON, BECAUSE THEY EVEN SAID IN THE WORTHING REPORT THAT THEY OVERWHELMINGLY, UM, RELIED ON THE PRIVATE LOTS.

SO COULD YOU SPEAK TO THAT AND HOW WE DECIDED ON THAT IN THE NUMBER? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

I'M GONNA, UM, DR.

HI SUSAN, IF YOU DON'T MIND ANSWERING THE FIRST QUESTION, BUT WHILE YOU'RE WALKING UP I CAN ANSWER THE, THE SECOND ONE.

UM, HE'S THE EXPERT ON THE WORTHINGTON PROGRAM, SO I WILL TAP INTO HIM FOR THAT ONE.

UM, THE, UH, PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE QUESTION, UH, WORTHINGTON, WE, SO ADDING THE BAIT STATION, LEMME START OVER THAT, UH, ADDING THE BAITING STATIONS WILL DRAW THE DEER INTO THE PARK.

SO IF THE DEER, AND WE HAVE SO MANY PARKS IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO LIKE DRAW THEM INTO THAT PARK AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING TO THESE RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND THEY, AND THEY WERE THERE AS WE WERE DOING THE DRONE SURVEYS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE HYDRANGEAS ARE AND THEIR SNACKS, UH, AS THEY'RE GOING THROUGH PEOPLE'S VEGETABLE GARDENS.

AND SO WHEN WE ARE ADDING REALLY EASY ACCESS FOOD FOR THEM, WE'RE GONNA BE DRAWING A LOT OF DEER FROM THOSE RESIDENTIAL AREAS INTO OUR PARKS.

AND AS YOU MENTIONED, THE WORTHINGTON PROGRAM, THEY REALLY DID RELY ON THOSE PRIVATE AREAS, BUT THAT ALSO HAD TO DO A LOT WITH THE FACT THAT THEY DON'T HAVE AS MANY PUBLIC SPACES IN THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

SO WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE LARGE PARKS IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS THAT WE CAN BRING THE DEER TO US, UH, RATHER THAN HAVING TO GO TO THOSE PRIVATE SPACES.

BUT, UH, I WILL LET YOU SPEAK FURTHER ON THAT IF YOU, IF YOU'RE AVAILABLE.

GREG HEIGHTS, SUSAN 54 33 HAVEN HILL DRIVE.

UM, AND THANKS FOR INVITING ME BACK.

THANKS EMILY, FOR KEEPING ME IN THE LOOP.

I, BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING ELSE, CAN I JUST, UH, A QUOTE THAT I WROTE ON MY NOTES AS I'VE SAT HERE THROUGH ALL OF THIS, UM, IS ENDURANCE AND GRACE IN DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL DISCOURSE.

UM, AND A REALLY FINE EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT IS WHAT I'VE SEEN TONIGHT.

UM, SO I, I ENJOY BEING HERE.

UH, THE WAY YOU GUYS HAVE ADDRESSED THIS AS A COUNCIL AND AS A COMMUNITY HAS BEEN REALLY INSPIRING FOR ME TO WATCH AND HAVING SEEN WORTHINGTON GO THROUGH THIS AND NOW SEEING THE DELIBERATIONS IN DUBLIN, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WAY THAT YOU'VE GONE ABOUT THIS.

UM, AS FOR THE PRIVATE LOTS, WE ACTUALLY PLANNED TO MOSTLY USE PUBLIC LOTS IN WORTHINGTON, BUT WE HAD 136 PEOPLE APPLY TO HAVE THEIR PUBLIC OR THEIR PRIVATE HOMES USED BECAUSE MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY WANTED TO SEE DEER NUMBERS REDUCED WERE PEOPLE THAT COULDN'T SPOOK DEER FROM THEIR OWN BACKYARDS ANYMORE.

AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT A DISPERSED, UH, ATTEMPT TO GET THE DEER IS GONNA MOVE THE DEER BEHAVIOR IN A MORE DISPERSED WAY.

SO IF WE ONLY RELIED ON THE PUBLIC SPACES, SOME PRIVATE LOTS, YOU KNOW, THE DEER WERE GONNA RETREAT TO THE PRIVATE LOTS.

SO THE IDEA WAS MAYBE WE SHOULD USE SOME OF THE PRIVATE LOTS.

BUT THAT SAID, IT'S KIND OF FELT LIKE IT WOULD BE EASIER TO USE THE PUBLIC SPACES.

SO THAT WAS KINDA THE PLAN.

BUT THE SUPER COLD WEATHER AND THE FOOT OF SNOW THAT WE GOT, WHICH WAS A BIT UNUSUAL, CHANGED THE DEER BEHAVIOR DURING THE REMOVAL PERIOD.

MM-HMM .

AND THE DEER DIDN'T GO TO THE PARK PLACES, THEY RETREATED TO PEOPLE'S YARDS BECAUSE THERE'S MORE THERMAL MASS AND IT'S WARMER IN PEOPLE'S YARDS.

SO THEY ENDED UP USING THE PRIVATE LOTS MORE THAN THEY USED.

IN FACT, THEY GOT ALMOST NOTHING FROM THE, FROM THE PUBLIC LAND, BUT THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER THEN THAT WAS NOT WHAT THEY EXPECTED.

WE FULLY EXPECTED TO BE ABLE TO JUST USE THE, MOSTLY THE, THE PUBLIC LAND.

NOWHERE DEER CAME OUT AND I CLIPPED THE DEER.

CAN I JUST ASK A FOLLOW UP QUESTION? SO IF WE'RE GONNA BE USING BAITING METHODS, ARE WE WORRIED THAT WE'RE GONNA BE ATTRACTING DEER FROM LIKE WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP TO OUR AREAS AND THEN WE'RE JUST GONNA BE KIND OF INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF DEER IN MIGRATION AND NOT REALLY ADDRESSING THE DEER POPULATION PROBLEM WITHIN DUBLIN? UH, SO IT'S A, IT'S A PRETTY TEMPORARY USE OF, OF BAITING.

AND SO THE LOCAL DEER ARE GONNA DISCOVER IT AND IT, THE TIMING OF THAT IS THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO HABITATE THE LOCAL DATA.

OOH, I'M GONNA SHOW UP TO THIS PARTICULAR SPOT.

AND I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH EXPERTISE TO SPEAK EXACTLY ON WHAT THE LONG-TERM DYNAMICS OF, BUT UH, IT ALLOWS YOU TO CONGREGATE DEER SO YOU CAN MUCH MORE EFFICIENTLY REMOVE DEER IF YOU'VE GOT SOME AMOUNT OF FOOD IN A PARTICULAR PLACE.

SO YEAH, I THINK BEST PRACTICE FOR THEM IS TO DO THAT FOR A FEW WEEKS AHEAD OF TIME.

'CAUSE IT TAKES A LITTLE WHILE AND THEN THEY, THEN THEY CONGREGATE.

AND THEN IN TERMS OF STAFF NUMBER, IN TERMS OF THE, THE BUDGET THAT YOU'VE GOTTA PUT TOGETHER FOR THIS, OBVIOUSLY IF THEY CAN TAKE OUT A HIGHER NUMBER OF DEERE IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IN ONE PLACE, IT'LL COST LESS IN THE LONG RUN.

UM, BECAUSE THEY CAN BE MORE EFFICIENT.

LIKE A COUPLE QUICK THINGS.

UM, THE FIRST NIGHT OF DEER REMOVAL IN WORTHINGTON, THEY TOOK SOMETHING LIKE 14 OR 15 DEER BECAUSE THEY SET A LIMIT.

WE'RE ONLY GONNA TAKE 15 ON THE FIRST DAY SO THAT WE CAN KNOW FOR SURE THAT OUR FIELD DRESSING AND ALL THAT, THAT WE'VE GOT THE CAPACITY AND WE CAN HANDLE THAT

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AND ALL THAT.

FROM WHAT I HEARD, THEY COULD HAVE TAKEN 45 DEER ON THE FIRST NIGHT THAT WERE AVAILABLE TO BE TAKEN, BUT THEY HAD ALREADY SAID, WE'RE ONLY GONNA TAKE SO MUCH TO TEST THE CAPACITY OF OUR SYSTEM.

AND SOMEBODY SAID, SHOOT, IT'S TOO BAD.

WE JUST DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, KNOW THAT WE HAD THE CAPACITY 'CAUSE WE COULD TAKEN 45 AT ONE TIME.

AND JUST IN TERMS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE STAFF TIME AND, AND ALL OF THAT.

SO IT'S AN INTERESTING THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.

UM, YEAH, SO THE OTHER THING IS WE HAD 136 RESIDENTS BEFOREHAND AND THEN 16 MORE LATER THAT WANTED THEIR PROPERTIES USED.

USDA WILDLIFE SERVICES ONLY DEEMED 30 OF THOSE PROPERTIES ACCEPTABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE TO BE A SAFE PLACE TO DO REMOVALS.

AND ONLY 22 OF THOSE ENDED UP SIGNING CONTRACTS SAYING, OKAY, YEAH, I USE MY MY YARD TO DO THIS.

AND ONLY 10 OF THOSE SITES ACTUALLY ENDED UP BEING GOOD SITES TO USE BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THE DEER.

UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WISDOM OF THE BALANCE IS.

I, I THINK FOR REASONS OF FLEXIBILITY, UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT COULD BE VALUABLE TO HAVE THE OPTION OF USING PRIVATE LAND, BUT ALSO BECAUSE A LOT OF RESIDENTS WOULD LOVE TO HAVE DEER REMOVED SPECIFICALLY FROM THEIR PROPERTY BECAUSE THEN THAT TREAT TRAINS THOSE DEER NOT TO COME TO THEIR PROPERTY.

DISPERSES THE IMPACT IMPACTS THE BEHAVIOR OF A DEER A LITTLE BIT MORE BROADLY THAN JUST STICKING TO PUBLIC SPACES.

BUT I WOULD DEFAULT TO WHATEVER THE USDA WILDLIFE SERVICES FOLKS SAY, IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE SAYING THERE'S ENOUGH PUBLIC LAND AND NOT EVEN REALLY NEED PRIVATE LAND AT ALL, THEN I, I WOULD TRUST THEM TO, THEY'VE DONE THIS IN SO MANY SITES, 75 COMMUNITIES AROUND OHIO HAVE BEEN DOING THE REMOVAL AND, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY CAN LOOK AT THE SITE AND KNOW WHAT'S THE BEST APPROACH.

BETTER THAN I CAN TELL YOU AND MOLLY, DO WE HAVE DAILY BAG LIMITS? UM, NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF.

NO.

SINCE IT'S DEER DAMAGE.

SO THEY TAKE 45 ON NIGHT ONE.

THEY COULD, THEY COULD, YEAH, IT'S A DEER DAMAGE PERMIT.

SO IT'S SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT.

I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS.

SO WE HAVE VERY LITTLE PUBLIC LAND NORTH OF BRAND ROAD WEST OF DUBLIN ROAD, EAST OF AVERY ROAD, UH, AND SOUTH OF GLICK ROAD.

THERE'S ALMOST NO PUBLIC LAND THAT IS LARGELY MUIRFIELD, UM, WHERE LIKE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, SOMEBODY WAS SENT TO THE HOSPITAL BY AN ENCOUNTER WITH A DEER OVER THE WEEKEND.

UM, AND THERE'S ALL VIRTUALLY NOTHING THERE.

SO I MAYBE I I THINK THAT THAT, AND THAT ALL OF THE COUNTS, THAT WAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST.

SO I THINK WE NEED TO TALK TO FOLKS EITHER AT MUIRFIELD VILLAGE GOLF CLUB, MUIRFIELD COUNTRY CLUB, OR MUIRFIELD VILLAGE, HOA, UM, BECAUSE THERE IS NO, OUR LARGEST NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE CITY HAS ZERO PUBLIC LANDS, SO I, I DON'T WANNA LIMIT US TO JUST PUBLIC LANDS BECAUSE THAT WILL LIMIT US FROM NOT TAKING ANY DEER IN THE AREA THAT IS THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED WITH DEER.

SO, AND IF, IF THE BEHAVIOR IS GOING TO DRIVE DEER TO OTHER PLACES OTHER THAN WHERE THE BAIT STATIONS ARE, THAT'S THE PLACE THAT CAN, UH, HANDLE ADDITIONAL DEER THE LEAST.

SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US TALK ABOUT USING PUBLIC LANDS WHEN IT MAKES SENSE AND, UH, PRIVATE WHEN, WHEN IT'S NECESSARY.

AND JUST, I'M SORRY.

OH, THANKS.

I I'M GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT UP, UM, BECAUSE I WAS THINKING IT, UM, BEFORE YOU SAID IT.

YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THAT INCIDENT OVER THE WEEKEND.

I, I, SO I WALK THE TRAILS ALL THE TIME AND ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME I'M ON THE TRAIL, THERE IS SOMEBODY GOING, HOW DO I GET THIS DEER OFF THE TRAIL? IT DOESN'T RESPOND TO ME.

UM, I SAW THIS COUPLE WALKING THEIR DOG AND THE DEER WAS SO CLOSE TO THE DOG, THEY WERE TERRIFIED AND IT'S HAPPENING MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY.

AND THIS IS ALL UP IN MUIRFIELD.

AND IF THERE'S NO PUBLIC SPACE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO REMOVE DEER FROM THAT AREA OF THE CITY, I THINK IT'S AMIS.

I I DON'T MEAN FOR IT TO BE ABOUT MUIRFIELD, NO.

MM-HMM.

I THINK IT HOLDS TRUE FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

UH, IT IT'S THAT QUADRANT OF THE CITY REALLY NORTH OF BRAND WEST OF DUBLIN ROAD, EAST OF AVERY ROAD.

THERE IS VERY MINIMAL PUBLIC LANDS.

UM, AND SO WHICH PROBABLY REPRESENTS, I DON'T KNOW, PROBABLY A FIFTH OR A SIXTH OF THE POPULATION OF THE CITY.

SO I, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY THERE.

AND, AND I WILL SAY, I, I REPRESENT WARD THREE AND THE NUMBER ONE CALL THAT I GET FROM YOU, THE RESIDENTS I LIVE IN WARD THREE, IS THE DEER, UH, PROBLEM.

UM, MEMBERS OF CONSTANT KNOW THIS, BUT JUST LAST WEEKEND I WAS DRIVING ON DUBLIN ROAD NORTH OF BRAND AND I WAS DRIVING 27 MILES AN HOUR AND OUT OF

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UM, AND SO THIS IS A GROWING PROBLEM.

THE OTHER COROLLARY TO THIS IS ALSO THE NUMBER OF DEER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF WE ACTUALLY CAN DO 45 IN ONE NIGHT, YOU KNOW, THAT MIGHT MAKE THINGS MORE EFFICIENT.

SO WE ACTUALLY MIGHT BE ABLE TO INCREASE THE TOTAL NUMBER THAT, UH, WE, WE GET STILL KEEPING WITHIN BUDGET.

AND SO I WOULD ADVOCATE THAT WE ACTUALLY CONSIDER INCREASING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DEER.

I DO NOT THINK A HUNDRED PLUS OR MINUS 25 IS GONNA MAKE A CONSIDERABLE DENT, UH, IN THIS PROBLEM GIVEN THE SIZE OF DUBLIN.

AND IF WE CAN DO THIS MORE EFFICIENTLY, SAY, NOT LIMITED TO 14 DEER IN THE FIRST NIGHT, AND IF WE COULD DO MORE THAN THAT, THAT MIGHT MAKE THINGS A LITTLE MORE COST EFFICIENT.

THEY HAVE BIGGER PICTURE NUMBER ONE, WE CAN NEVER CONTROL THE NUMBERS, RIGHT? 'CAUSE THE WEATHER CAN INTERVENE WHEN THEY ACTUALLY DECIDE TO GO AND START.

THAT'S, THERE'S NO DATE WHEN THEY'RE GONNA START.

THEY HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE THE DEER BEHAVIOR, AND THERE'S A PERIOD OF TIME IN WHICH THEY'RE GONNA MOVE.

AND WHEN FINALLY THE CONDITIONS WORK IN, AHA, WE'VE GOT ENOUGH DEER SOMEWHERE THAT IT'S WORTH GOING OUT AND THEY GO.

BUT THE FIRST NIGHT OUT IS GENERALLY GONNA BE WHERE YOU HAVE YOUR BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE BIGGEST NUMBER AT ONE TIME, BECAUSE THE DEER, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T, THEY'RE JUST SKID.

SO I, I WOULD THINK ONE 100 IS THE FLOOR, NOT THE CEILING.

UM, YEAH.

SO ALL, ALL I MEANT BY THAT WAS IF YOU CAN BE PREPARED TO TAKE AS MANY AS YOU CAN ON THE FIRST NIGHT, THAT MIGHT BE ONE WAY TO MAKE IT AS EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE OF GETTING MORE NUMBERS QUICKER WITH LESS STAFF EFFORT.

WHEREAS IN WORTHINGTON'S CASE, WE, YOU KNOW, WE WERE RAMPING UP OUR SYSTEM TO MAKE SURE WE COULD HANDLE THAT.

WE DIDN'T WANT IT TO, WE WANTED IT TO GO WELL, AND THAT WAS WISE.

BUT IN RETROSPECT, LIKE, SHOOT, WE APPRECIATE YOU SHARING LESSONS LEARNED.

THAT'S REALLY VALUABLE TO US.

AND, AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR WORK ON THE ETHICAL STATEMENT.

YEAH, SURE.

UM, AS AMY, SO, UM, ELOQUENTLY SAID, IT SHOULD BE THE ME BASIS OF OUR MESSAGING AND UM, WE THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.

I'M NOT SURE WE GOT AN ANSWER ON WHY A HUNDRED OR 125 YEAH.

OR WHAT WOULD WE YEAH, SO, UM, A LOT OF IT IS BASED ON USDA STAFFING AVAILABILITY.

UM, I MEAN, IF THEY HAD A HUNDRED PEOPLE WORKING FOR THEM, THEN A BILLION DEER WOULD BE GREAT.

UM, BUT THEY HAVE PEOPLE WORKING HERE, THEY HAVE PEOPLE WORKING IN OTHER CITIES.

WE'RE NOT THE ONLY COMMUNITY THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE WORKING WITH THIS WINTER.

SO, UM, THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE US WITH A CONSERVATIVE, WE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT WE CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY IN A CONTRACT, THIS IS HOW MANY DEER THAT WE CAN TAKE, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO FALL SHORT OF A CONTRACTED NUMBER IF, IF THEY'RE UNABLE TO, TO DELIVER ON THAT.

SO, UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED TO 125, WE CAN DEFINITELY SPEAK TO, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DIFFERENCE IN THE, AS AS, UH, WAS MENTIONED, THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WAY THAT RESIDENTS EXPERIENCE THE DEER, UH, YOU KNOW, NIGHT ONE OF AN OPERATION MIGHT BE AMPLE DEER AROUND BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T INTRODUCED A PREDATOR, AND THEN THEY'RE A LITTLE MORE HESITANT TO BE AROUND.

AND KNIGHTS THREE FOUR, UH, USDA HAS SHARED BEFORE THAT YEARS TWO, THREE, AND FOUR OF A DEER MANAGEMENT OPERATION BECOME INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT BECAUSE THE DEER ARE LESS BOLD AND THEY'RE NOT GOING UP TO THE BAITING STATIONS AND THEY'RE NOT WALKING AROUND IN THE SAME UH, LEVEL THAT THEY CURRENTLY ARE.

SO WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YEAR ONE RESIDENTS ARE ALREADY GONNA SEE A BIT OF A DIFFERENCE IN, UM, HOW THE, THE DEER MOVE ABOUT IN DUBLIN.

UH, AND SO, YOU KNOW, IF THEY GO OUT AND THEY SEE 45 DEER IN NIGHT ONE, AND THEY COME BACK AND THEY SAY THAT IT'S, IT'S POSSIBLE TO DO MORE WITHIN THE CONTRACT, THEN THAT'S, THAT'S UP TO THEM ON THEIR STAFFING AVAILABILITY.

UM, BUT THEY DO HAVE LIMITED RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS.

UH, THEY'RE ALSO DOING THE FIELD DRESSING FOR US.

SO THEY ARE, UM, EXTENDING THEIR, THEIR STAFFING CAPABILITY WITH US TO DO SOMETHING THAT THEY DIDN'T DO FOR WORTHINGTON.

AND, UM, THAT'S A GREAT RESOURCE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO TAP INTO WITH THEM AND THEIR EXPERTISE FOR THE FIELD DRESSING.

SO, UM, THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY CONFIDENT IN THEIR ABILITY TO GET TO A HUNDRED AND 125 AND THE IMPACT THAT THAT WILL HAVE.

YEAH, I WOULD THINK THAT THE, THE TIME IS PROBABLY MORE IN THE FIELD DRESSING.

'CAUSE LIKE, I MEAN, THAT'S GONNA TAKE A WHILE.

YOU NEED QUITE A BIT OF STAFF TO DO THAT.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TAKING 10 IN ONE NIGHT AND 45 IN ONE NIGHT IS HUGE OF HOW MANY HOURS THEY'RE GONNA SPEND FIELD DRESSING.

BUT I THINK WHAT WE HAVE TO, OUR ADVANTAGE TOO IS WE HAVE THE RIVER IN BETWEEN.

SO THE DEER BEHAVIOR, DEER ON THE ONE SIDE OF THE RIVER, CAN'T TELL THE DEER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER LIKE THAT THE BAITING IS HAPPENING.

RIGHT.

SO I THINK WE HAVE, I THINK THE SQUARE MILEAGE IS ON OUR SIDE.

THE SQUARE, WORTHINGTON SQUARE MILEAGE IS SO MUCH SMALLER.

THOSE DEER, YOU CAN HAVE FOUR QUADRANTS THAT WOULD BE VERY DIFFERENT.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MS. JOHNSON? YES.

MS. SALUTO? YES.

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION.

OTHER BUSINESS,

[OTHER BUSINESS ]

UH,

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STAFF REPORT.

UH, JENNY DELGADO.

COUNCIL RECOGNITION POLICY.

THIS PROPOSED POLICY WAS INTRODUCED.

OH, I'M SORRY.

THANK YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT.

YOU, YOU SPOKE TO ENDURANCE.

I THINK ALL THE ENDURANCE CREDIT GOES TO YOU TONIGHT.

SO THANK YOU FOR COMING.

YOU ARE MUCH APPRECIATED.

AND, AND, UH, WE REALLY, UM, VALUE THE LESSONS LEARNED AND THE INPUT THAT YOU PROVIDED.

SO, THANK YOU.

SORRY, JENNY.

THAT'S OKAY.

THE LIGHT THE HOUR IS LATE IN.

MY, MY PATIENCE IS SHORT.

SO, GOOD EVENING.

THIS PROPOSED POLICY WAS INTRODUCED AT YOUR MAY 26TH MEETING.

EXCUSE ME.

I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY FEEDBACK OR SUGGESTED REVISIONS.

SO STAFF IS RECOMMENDING ADOPTION OF THE POLICY.

WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT? IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS AGENDA ITEM? HEARING NONE.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION, THEN I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE COUNCIL RECOGNITION POLICY.

IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MS. A LUDO? YES.

RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK INTEGRATED PERIMETER STUDY.

MATT, WELCOME.

UH, EMULATE AND COMPLIMENT THE WEST SIDE OF THE, OR THE EAST SIDE OF THE STREET OF RIVERSIDE.

I'LL BE BRIEF AS, UH, IT HAS BEEN MENTIONED.

IT IS GETTING LATE, SO I UNDERSTAND THAT COMPLETELY.

UM, I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CONCEPT THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, UH, FOR RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK REGARDING THE STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS.

UM, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK ON THIS PARK FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.

UH, MASTER PLAN WAS ADOPTED IN 2016.

UM, THE EAST SIDE IMPROVEMENTS IS WHERE WE'RE FOCUSING A LOT OF OUR ATTENTION THESE DAYS, PARTICULARLY, UH, ON THE RIVERSIDE DRIVES STREET SCAPE, UH, CONCEPT.

UH, THE CITYWIDE PARKS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN UPDATE ALSO IDENTIFIES THE PARK AS A PRIORITY FOR CONTINUED DESIGN UPDATES.

UM, THESE ONGOING UPDATES HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY VARIOUS PARK PROJECTS, PARK USAGE, DESIRED EVENTS, PARTICULARLY IN PREPARATION FOR THE CHRIS MARKED PLAN FOR THIS NOVEMBER.

UM, AND THE CIP INCLUDES ADVANCING EVENT INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS THIS YEAR, UM, IN, IN OUR FUNDING.

UM, BUT I WANNA FOCUS A LITTLE BIT, UM, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT FORGETTING ABOUT THE MA THE ORIGINAL MASTER PLAN.

THIS IS A WORK STILL IN PROGRESS.

IT HAS BEEN, UM, YEARS SINCE IT HAS BEEN ADOPTED, AND AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON UPDATING THIS PLAN OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.

UM, BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE ONGOING CURRENTLY, UH, THAT ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE DESIGN OF THOSE, UH, OF THE PLANS FOR THE PARK.

AND THAT INCLUDES THE EVALUATION OF THE INAUGURAL CHRIS KINNEAR, AS I MENTIONED, THE NORTHERN AREA, HISTORIC DISTRICT IMPROVEMENTS, RIVER, UH, RIVERVIEW, VILLAGE CONSTRUCTION.

ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE ITEMS THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND AND THEN CAN HELP FURTHER, UM, INFORM WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON FOR, UH, THE PARK ITSELF OVERALL.

BUT WE WANTED TO FOCUS ON 2018 WHERE WE LEFT OFF IN THE SITE PLAN FOR THE RIVERSIDE DRIVE STREET SCAPE.

UM, AS NOTED ON THE, ON THE SCREEN, YOU'LL SEE IT'S VERY, UH, ELABORATE.

UM, IT WOULD REQUIRE AN EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF WORK AND THERE ARE A LOT OF ITEMS IN HERE THAT, UM, WE ARE UNDER, UNDER FURTHER INVESTIGATION AND CONSIDERATION AND SO FORTH.

SO WE HAVEN'T LOST SIGHT OF THIS.

UM, HOWEVER, WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW CAN WE IMPROVE WHAT WE HAVE OUT THERE.

CITY COUNCIL HAS MENTIONED IT IS A PRIORITY THAT WE FOCUS ON THE, THE SAFETY OF THE PARK.

UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF ACTIVITIES OUT THERE.

WE HAVE A LOT OF EVENT EVENTS THAT ARE PLANNED OUT THERE.

AND CERTAINLY WE WANT TO GET SOMETHING DONE IN PLACE AND, UM, PROVIDE A BARRIER, A SAFETY BARRIER FOR THE CHRIS KENDALL MART IN, UH, IN NOVEMBER PARTICULARLY.

SO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING ARE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD EXTEND FROM THE, THE SOUTHERN, UM, END OF THE WALL NEAR THE, UH, PAVILION UP TO JOHN SHIELDS PARKWAY, UH, WHICH WOULD BE A SERIES OF TREES BOULDERS, UM, BENCHES AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WOULD, UH, PREVENT A VEHICLE FROM BEING ABLE TO ENTER THE PARK FROM RIVERSIDE DRIVE, AS WELL AS EXTENDING THE TIMBER, UM, STEEL BACKED TIMBER RAILING SYSTEM THAT, UH, EXTENDS NORTH OF THAT, UH, AROUND THE EXISTING SIGNAL TRAFFIC, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNAL, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE, ALL THE WAY TO THE WEST OF THE SHARED JUICE PATH, KEEPING CARS FROM BEING ABLE TO APPROACH FROM THE NORTH AS WELL.

SO THIS, UH, IS A GENERAL CONCEPT OF THE CADENCE THAT YOU WILL, UH, SEE HERE IN A FEW MINUTES, BUT I WANTED TO POINT OUT A FEW THINGS ON HERE THAT THIS SIDE OF THE STREET, UH, THE CADENCE OF THE TREES, UM, AND, AND THE LINEAR TYPE OF SYSTEM WOULD,

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SO IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IT WAS, UM, IN JOINT EFFORT TO, UM, TO, TO COMPLIMENT EACH OF THOSE LANDSCAPES.

THE RENDERING HERE THAT YOU SEE INCLUDES THE SEATING WALLS OR THE, UH, THE SEATING BOULDERS, I SHOULD SAY, ALONG WITH SOME SCATTERED BOULDERS THROUGHOUT.

AND THE INTENTION OF THIS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER WE DO OUT THERE IS FLEXIBLE.

UH, WE CAN, WE CAN MOVE THESE THINGS AROUND AS WE LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT WE EXPERIENCE FOR THE EVENTS AND C KIN MART AND AND SO FORTH.

THE TREES WOULD BE PERMANENT.

UH, BUT CERTAINLY THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD ALL, THEY WOULD ALL ALIGN WITH WHAT OUR ORIGINAL PLAN WAS FOR THIS STREET SCAPE.

SO IN HOPES THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO TRANS, YOU KNOW, UH, TRANS MAKE HUGE TRANSFORMATIONS TO THE AREA WHERE THOSE TREES SHOULD BE ABLE TO STAY, UM, UH, IN PERPETUITY AND JUST A LITTLE CLOSER UP LOOK, UM, THERE WILL BE THE IDEA OF, UH, PUTTING SEATING ARRANGEMENTS.

THAT IS NOT A CONCEPT OF THE TYPE OF SEATING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.

THIS IS A VERY ROUGH RENDERING, BUT I DO WANNA POINT OUT THAT THIS WOULD INCLUDE WHAT YOU SEE ON THE FOREFRONT OF THIS PICTURE IS THE EXISTING SIDEWALK AND THE PAVERS.

THE WEST SIDE OF, OF THIS FEATURE IS AN ADDITIONAL WALKWAY THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO PUT IN FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

AND THAT WOULD ALL BE PENDING THE FUNDING AVAILABILITY WITHIN THE EXISTING BUDGET WITH, UM, WITH WHICH WE ARE PRETTY CONFIDENT WE CAN AFFORD TO DO.

WE HAVE $2.8 MILLION IN OUR BUDGET CURRENTLY.

UM, AND OUR PRELIMINARY COST ESTIMATES ARE MUCH LESS THAN THAT.

SO I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO DO EACH OF, UM, OF WHAT YOU SEE HERE.

SO WITH THAT, UM, I'M NOT GONNA READ THROUGH ALL OF THESE, BUT THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE CONCEPT AND CERTAINLY WOULD BE HAPPY TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IS MEETING COUNCIL'S GOAL OF ENHANCING THE PARK, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, UH, IF YOU HAVE ANY FEEDBACK, UM, AESTHETIC ELEMENTS INCLUDING THE USE OF BOULDER FEATURES AND GRANITE SLABS AND THINGS OF THAT, WE'D CERTAINLY LIKE THAT FEEDBACK AS WELL.

AND THEN THE, UH, ADDITIONAL PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY ON THE WEST SIDE IS THAT OUT OF AN INTEREST OF CITY COUNCIL, UM, IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT IF WE ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE THE SAFETY FOR PEDESTRIANS, THAT WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.

SO WITH THAT, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OR REFINEMENTS COUNCIL WOULD LIKE STAFF TO EVALUATE? I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS AGENDA ITEM? HEARING NONE.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION? UM, MATT, JUST, UH, IF YOU'LL GO BACK TO THE PICTURE, JUST A QUICK COMMENT.

YOU SAID THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENTATIVE.

I WASN'T QUITE SURE HOW SEATING WHERE PEDESTRIANS CAN FACE THE ROAD.

IS, IS A, IS IS A SAFETY THING, BUT THAT IS JUST, THERE'S THE ABILITY FOR US TO PUT SOME FURNITURE IN ALONG THIS WALKWAY.

UM, ON THE INSIDE.

ON THE INSIDE.

OKAY, GREAT.

THAT WAS, I WAS JUST CHECKING WITH THAT.

AND WILL THERE BE PLANTINGS AS IT APPEARS ON HERE? THAT'S THE PLANT? YES.

OKAY, GREAT.

SO, UM, I, I'M SUPPORTIVE.

I THINK WE NEED TO DO THIS AND THE ADDITIONAL WALKWAY SEEMS QUITE LOGICAL AND IF DESIGNED IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, WITH PLANTINGS AND EVERYTHING QUITE NICE.

SO I'M SUPPORTIVE OF MOVING FORWARD.

UM, THAT, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE MORE PEDESTRIANS TRAVERSING UP AND DOWN RIVERSIDE DRIVE.

I'LL AGREE WITH THAT.

YEAH, ACTUALLY I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THIS AND ALSO I'M ALSO SUPPORTIVE OF THE, UH, THE ADDITIONAL WALKWAY AS WELL.

GREAT.

UH, I TOO AM SUPPORTIVE.

UM, SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S UNANIMOUS EVERYONE IS .

HOW'S THAT? UM, I, I WOULD SELFISHLY LIKE TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYWHERE WE COULD DO SOME, UH, PUNCH OUTS OR WHATEVER SO THAT MAYBE ONE DAY IF WE WERE GONNA HAVE A, A FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL IN THE PARK, THAT THE FOOD TRUCKS COULD ACTUALLY BE IN THE PARK AND NOT ALL, ALL ALONG RIVERSIDE DRIVE.

SO I CONTINUE TO HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THAT SAFETY.

I, I SAW PEOPLE AT FEST.

UH, THERE WERE, I SAW SOME NEAR MISSES UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS OF PEOPLE GETTING IN AND OUT OF CARS, YOU KNOW, COMING THROUGH PARKED CARS.

SO I HAVE VERY REAL CONCERNS ABOUT THESE BIG FOOD TRUCKS THAT YOU CANNOT SEE AROUND AND PEOPLE TRYING TO GET, COME OUT TO GET, YOU KNOW, ADJACENT TO THEIR CAR TO GET IN THE DOOR.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US, IF WE'RE GOING TO DO A MAJOR RENOVATION TO THESE WALKWAYS THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO GET THE FOOD TRUCKS OFF OF RIVERSIDE DRIVE.

I, I, SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET HURT AND I REALLY DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'S SAFE.

UM, AND I THINK AS WE, UH, DEVELOP BRIDGE PARK NORTH,

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SO I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE INTERIOR SIDEWALK, UM, FOR THOSE PURPOSES.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE I, I DON'T KNOW, THIS MIGHT BE A CRAZY IDEA, BUT MAYBE IF WE HAD THIS INTERIOR SIDEWALK, MAYBE WE COULD PUT FOOD TRUCKS ON THE EXTERIOR SIDEWALK, UM, YOU KNOW, PUT SOME RAMPS IN OR WHATEVER WHERE WE COULD OPEN OR CLOSE IT SO THAT THEY COULD GET UP OFF THE STREET.

BUT I SAW TWO NEAR MISSES OVER THE WEEKEND OF PEOPLE TRYING TO LOOK OUT AND SEE DOWN RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND CARS WERE TRAVELING QUICKLY.

AND, UH, I THOUGHT IT WAS AN UNSAFE CONDITION.

SO I THINK EVERYONE'S SUPPORTIVE OF THE SECOND SIDEWALK.

I WOULD ONLY PUT IN THERE.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY SUPPORT OF, OF EXPLORING PLACES WHERE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PUT FOOD TRUCKS MORE INTERNAL TO THE PARK THAN JUST ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE.

I, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY SUPPORT FOR THAT OR NOT.

UM, I, I THINK NOW AGAIN, THOUGH, THE PLAN IS NOT TO HAVE FOOD TRUCKS LINED UP ALL THE WAY DOWN THIS.

SO IF, IF THE, THE PLAN WAS, AS I RECALL IT, TO MOVE IT FURTHER NORTH.

SO WE'RE NOT, AND SO IF THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO DO THAT, I DESIGN A WAY .

AND AS YOU GO FURTHER NORTH, AS YOU DEVELOP THAT NORTHERN PORTION, YOU'RE GONNA RUN INTO THE SAME PROBLEM.

THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE PEOPLE THERE.

AND WHEN YOU PUT EVEN FOUR FOOD TRUCKS IN A ROW THAT IS A, A WALL THAT YOU CANNOT SEE AROUND, I, I WOULD ARGUE THAT TWO MAKE IT VERY DIFFICULT, BUT JUST ME.

UM, AND I THINK THAT IT IS A GOOD, I THINK THE BOULDERS AND ALL OF THAT ARE A GOOD DESIGN PLAN.

OF COURSE IT ALL HAPPENS IN, IN THE DETAILS AND YOU'LL BRING A PLAN BACK TO US BEFORE WE GO TO BID.

IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE A COPY OF THE FINAL BEFORE WE GO OUT TO BID, I'LL BE HAPPY TO BRING THAT BACK.

I THINK WE WOULD.

IS THAT OKAY? GREAT.

ALRIGHT.

UH, ALL THAT BEING SAID, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED DESIGN CONCEPT PLAN.

IS THERE OUR SECOND? SECOND.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MAYOR AROSE GROOMS? YES.

TO THE STAFF COMMENTS PORTION OF OUR AGENDA.

[STAFF COMMENTS ]

AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO CITY MANAGER O CALLAHAN.

CONGRATULATIONS ON OUTSTANDING 50TH YEAR.

JUST A FEW UPDATES.

FIRST I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AND THANK ALL OF THE CITY STAFF AND ALL OF OUR PARTNERS WHO SUPPORTED THIS YEAR'S MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT, WHICH MARKED ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY.

WE HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL WEEK.

THIS MILESTONE YEAR INCLUDED SEVERAL ADDED TOUCHES THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY FROM THE ADDITIONAL BANNERS THAT WERE INSTALLED BY OUR SIGN SHOP TO THE PAVEMENT STICKERS, UM, AND TO THE FLORAL DISPLAY AT US 33.

AND AVERY MUIRFIELD THAT INCLUDED 2,800 PLANTS AND WAS INSTALLED BY OUR HORTICULTURE TEAM.

I HEARD LOTS OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON THAT.

UM, SATURDAY'S WEATHER BROUGHT CHALLENGES THAT REQUIRED QUICK ADJUSTMENTS, A LOT OF CLEANUP, AND WE'RE STILL CLEANING UP AND LOTS OF COORDINATION.

UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH NOTICE ABOUT THAT WEATHER EVENT.

UM, BUT GREAT PARTNERSHIP AGAIN WITH TOURNAMENT STAFF.

I APPRECIATE FLEXIBILITY, ALL THE PROFESSIONALISM, ALL THE LONG HOURS FROM ALL OUR CITY STAFF, DUBLIN POLICE, REGIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY PARTNERS, UM, TO HELP ENSURE THAT WE HAD SAFE AND WELL MANAGED, UM, EVENTS.

AND WE ALSO HAD THAT RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF FOR FEST.

UM, SO WE WERE TRANSITIONING FROM TOURNAMENT GROUNDS TO, FOR FEST, UM, AND MANAGING, UH, A SITUATION CITYWIDE WITH, UM, THE, UM, STRONG WINDS.

SO AS A RESULT OF THAT SEVERE WEATHER, AS OF THE END OF THE WORKDAY TODAY, WE ARE UP TO 366 REQUESTS FOR OUR POPULAR CHIPPER SERVICE.

AND THAT NUMBER WILL CONTINUE TO GROW.

UM, AND OUR CREWS WILL BE WORKING ALL THIS WEEK, AND I'M SURE WELL INTO NEXT WEEK TO ADDRESS ALL OF THOSE SERVICE REQUESTS WE ARE.

SO WE APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S PATIENCE ON THAT.

UM, AND THEN TO WRAP UP THE TOURNAMENT COMMENTS, WE'RE FORTUNATE TO HAVE VERY STRONG PARTNERSHIP WITH DAN SULLIVAN AND HIS ENTIRE TEAM.

OUR STAFF WORKS VERY CLOSELY WITH THEM, AND, UM, WE JUST WISH, UM, THEM GREAT.

SO THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO REPRESENTED DUBLIN SO WELL DURING, UM, THIS IMPORTANT COMMUNITY EVENT.

MORE ABOUT EVENTS, UM, SUMMER FUN SERIES SPONSORED BY AMAZON THIS YEAR, WE'LL KICK OFF THIS WEEK IN RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK.

WE HAVE THE EMPOWER HOUR FITNESS WORKOUTS THAT'S SPONSORED BY ORANGETHEORY FITNESS THIS YEAR.

THAT'S GONNA TAKE PLACE AT 6:00 PM EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY.

UM, FROM JUNE THROUGH AUGUST TO THE MIDWEEK MUSIC SERIES WILL TAKE PLACE FROM SIX TO EIGHT ON WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 10TH THROUGH AUGUST 19TH.

AND THEN WE HAVE CINEMA SATURDAYS THAT'S GONNA TAKE PLACE ON THE LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER.

UM, CINE CINEMA SATURDAYS WILL FOCUS EXCLUSIVELY THIS YEAR ON MOVIES THAT ARE MADE IN OHIO

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OR HAVE AN OHIO CONNECTION AS PART OF THE STATE'S.

OHIO GOES TO THE MOVIES PROGRAM AND THAT'S PART OF THE AMERICA TWO 50, UM, CELEBRATION.

AND THEN FINALLY, UH, RENOVATIONS TO THE BALANCE TRACE SPRAY PARK ARE FUNDED IN 2026 CIP.

WE HAVE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED AND THAT'S IDENTIFIED NECESSARY INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIRS.

IT'LL INCORPORATE SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS THAT MEET UPDATED STATE CODES, UM, AND IMPROVE A DA ACCESSIBILITY AND ALSO ADD SHADED LANDSCAPING WITH NEW SEATING OPTIONS.

SO, WANTED TO MAKE COUNCIL AWARE THAT STAFF IS PREPARING TO REACH OUT TO THE BALANCE RATE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION BOARD, UM, LATER THIS WEEK TO SCHEDULE A MEETING TO REVIEW THOSE CONCEPT PLANS AND ALSO TO OBTAIN THEIR FEEDBACK ON THOSE BEFORE MOVING FORWARD WITH DETAILED DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS AS ANTICIPATED TO BEGIN THIS FALL WITH COMPLETION TARGETED AHEAD OF THE 2027 UM, SEASON.

SO THAT CONCLUDES MY STAFF COMMENTS.

COUNCIL COMMITTEE REPORT.

[COUNCIL COMMITTEE REPORTS ]

KATHY ADMIN COMMITTEE.

THE ADMIN COMMITTEE MET ON THE 2ND OF JUNE.

WE HAD TWO TOPICS.

THE FIRST FOLLOWING ON OUR BOARD AND COMMISSION, A CELEBRATION THIS EVENING WAS CONTINUED WORK WITH STAFF TO HELP, UM, WITH OUR RECRUITMENT AND EDUCATION STAFF.

SHARED UPDATES ON THE REDESIGNING OF THE RECRUITMENT PAGE, FORMALLY KNOWN AS DO OF THE F FUTURE, WHICH HAS BEEN REBRANDED AS SERVE THE COMMITTEE, UM, THANKED STAFF AND UM, TOGETHER DISCUSSED, UM, POTENTIAL IDEAS FOR CONTINUED ENHANCEMENTS, UM, AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR, UM, ADDITIONAL MARKETING TOOLS AND STRATEGIES.

UM, BOTH STAFF AND THE COMMITTEE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE CONCEPT OF UNIFYING LANDING PAGES THAT WOULD CONNECT VOLUNTEERS WITH BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.

STAFF HAS AGREED TO GO BACK AND REVIEW THE DISCUSSION AND EVALUATE AND BRING BACK ANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT MAKE SENSE AT A FUTURE MEETING.

UH, THE SECOND TOPIC OF THE DISCUSSION WAS THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE, UH, COMMUNITY INCLUSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WHICH AS YOU RECALL, WAS REFERRED TO THE ADMIN COMMITTEE BY COUNCIL.

UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, REFLECTED ON THE ORIGIN OF KAYAK AND THE OBJECTIVES ESTABLISHED IN THE INFORMATION.

DURING THE DISCUSSION, MEMBERS RECOGNIZED THAT MANY OF THE COMMITTEE'S, UM, ORIGINAL GOALS AND PRIORITIES HAVE SINCE BECOME INTEGRATED INTO THE CITY'S ONGOING INITIATIVES AND ORGANIZATIONS THANKS TO INCREDIBLE WORK BY ALL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

THE COMMITTEE ALSO DISCUSSED THE REALITIES AND LIMITATIONS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AS A WHOLE.

UM, COMMITTEE MEMBERS BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION FROM COUNCIL, WILL, UH, EVALUATE IF IT MAKES SENSE TO CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURE, UH, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES MOVING FORWARD.

UM, WE ANTICIPATE, UH, FUTURE DISCUSSIONS BEGINNING WITH OUR AUGUST MEETING.

WE WILL MOVE ON TO

[COUNCIL ROUNDTABLE ]

COUNCIL ROUNDTABLE.

I'LL START AT MY FAR RIGHT.

COUNCIL MEMBER GRAHAM.

I TOO WILL THANK ALL OF OUR STAFF WHO, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE DRIVING THE SHUTTLES, OUR POLICE OFFICERS, THE, UM, PEOPLE THAT WORKED AT THE VILLAS EVERY DAY, ALL DAY.

UM, LOT OF HOURS SPENT OVER THE LAST WEEK.

SO THANK YOU TO THEM.

FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T, UM, MAKE IT TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S MEMORIAL EXHIBIT, IT IS STILL OPEN FOR THE REST OF THE MONTH AND STUFF, SO PLEASE GO HEAD OUT TO THAT.

SEE THE, UM, SPECIAL EXHIBIT.

AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO SHARE IS I HAVE GOTTEN NUMEROUS COMMENTS FROM MY FELLOW DOG WALKERS EVERY MORNING AT THADDEUS FOR THE, UM, RESTORATION WORK THAT WAS DONE AFTER THE, THEY DID THE STREAM MITIGATION WORK OUT THERE AND IT GOT REALLY TORN UP.

IT WAS REALLY MUDDY, UH, BUT THE, UM, CONTRACTORS DID AN EXCELLENT JOB, UH, FIXING THE TRAILS AND RESTORING IT AND LEPT IT BETTER THAN THEY FOUND IT.

SO THANK YOU TO THEM FOR THAT.

WITH THE, UH, THE SEVERE WEATHER.

COUNCIL MEMBER JOHNSON.

I HATE TO EXTEND THE MEETING, BUT I DO WANNA SAY THANK YOU.

IT'S ONE THING TO ATTEND THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT AS A PATRON AND JUST, YOU KNOW, HAVE A BEER AND CHEER ON YOUR GOLFERS.

IT'S ANOTHER THING ENTIRELY TO SEE WHAT IT TAKES TO PUT IT IN PLACE AND TO RUN IT SO SUCCESSFULLY FROM THE TENT STRUCTURES AND THE INSPECTIONS TO JUST, JUST THE OVERALL COORDINATION.

IT'S AN INCREDIBLE JOB AND I'M NOT SURPRISED THAT OUR STAFF DOES IT AS WELL AS THEY DO.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I WILL ECHO THOSE THANKS, BECAUSE YOU DESERVE TO HEAR IT FROM EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US.

IT WAS AN AMAZING, AMAZING JOB, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE WEATHER THAT HAPPENS.

SO WONDERFUL JOB TO TO, TO ALL OF OUR STAFF AND, AND THE PARTNERSHIP FROM, FROM THE CLUB AS WELL.

SO THANK YOU.

SO I, I HAD A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CAME IN FOR THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT AND THEY WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH DUBLIN.

THEY WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH THE STAFF.

I HAVE TO SAY, YOU GUYS MAKE ME INCREDIBLY PROUD.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE, ESPECIALLY

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I JUST WANNA TAKE ONE MINUTE.

I'D BE REMISS NOT TO MENTION THAT MAY WAS ASIAN AMERICAN NATIVE HAWAIIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER MONTH.

UM, AND I JUST WANT TO JUST TAKE A MOMENT, JUST REFLECT ON THE SIGNIFICANCE, NOT ONLY NATIONALLY, BUT LOCALLY.

BECAUSE DUBLIN, AND I'VE SAID THIS NUMEROUS TIMES, DUBLIN IS A, IS IS AN OASIS.

IT'S, UM, VERY DIVERSE.

ONE IN FIVE RESIDENTS IDENTIFY AS ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER, UM, DUB.

AND THEY, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE OUR NEIGHBORS, THERE ARE STUDENTS, THERE ARE BUSINESS OWNERS.

UM, THEY DO A LOT FOR THE COMMUNITY.

AND I JUST WANTED TO JUST POINT THAT OUT.

UM, AND JUST TO THANK THE CITY, THANK THE COUNCIL AND THANK OUR RESIDENTS, PARTICULARLY OUR A API RESIDENTS.

THINGS AND WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD, THERE WERE LOTS OF PEOPLE THAT DID THAT MADE THE CITY LOOK GOOD.

SO, UM, 50 YEARS OF TOURNAMENT MEANS 50 YEARS OF A LOT OF STAFF WORK, AND I REFLECTED ON THAT AS YOU WERE MAKING YOUR COMMENTS.

THAT'S, THAT'S A LOT OF EFFORT.

SO THANK YOU FOR NOT ONLY THIS TOURNAMENT, BUT FOR ALL THE 50 YEARS, UM, THAT CAME UP TO IT.

'CAUSE THAT'S TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UM, I WANTED TO, UH, CONGRATULATE, UM, JOE BASHAR AND THE TEAM.

I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO SEE THE PLACE 1776.

IT WAS LOVELY.

IT WAS OUT AT THE AM EMPATHY AND A BEAUTIFUL EVENING.

UM, I LAUGHED.

IT WAS SO WELL DONE.

AND IT, UH, REMINDS US JUST HOW, HOW HARD IT IS TO HAVE DEMOCRACY IN THE PORT, IN THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND HOW HARD THOSE FOUNDING FATHERS WORKED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

SO IT WAS A GREAT PLAN.

I WANT TO CONGRATULATE THEM.

I HOPE SOME OTHER FOLKS GOT A CHANCE TO SEE IT.

UM, I ALSO WANTED TO, TO E EXTEND OUR, OUR BEST WISHES TO DAVE LAWRENCE AND HIS FAMILY.

HE WAS THE UNION COUNTY COMMISSIONER WHO, UM, AS, AS STEPPING DOWN AND I WAS ABLE TO GO TO HIS, UM, RECOGNITION PROGRAM.

WE WANNA THANK HIM FOR ALL HIS WORK IN UNION COUNTY AND ALL HIS, HIS WORK, UM, IN, IN CENTRAL OHIO WHEN WE WISH HE AND HIS, HIS FAMILY THE VERY BEST.

UM, AND THEN FINALLY, I WANNA CONGRATULATE ALL THE NEW BOARD AND COMMISSION MEMBERS AND SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO, UM, ARE, UM, FINISHING THEIR TERMS. UM, SERVICES MAKES DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AND, UM, FROM THE TOURNAMENT TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT SIT ON OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND EVERY OTHER, UH, PROGRAM AND ACTIVITY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

GREAT.

UM, A LOT OF EVENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED, THE FOUR MILER WAS, UH, REALLY WELL DONE.

CHIEF, YOUR OFFICERS WERE GREAT AT ALL OF THE INTERSECTIONS AND, AND KEEPING, KEEPING EVERYBODY SAFE.

UH, THE HONORARY HONORARY CEREMONY WAS, UM, IT WAS MEANINGFUL AND, UH, IT WAS A GREAT TIME OF REFLECTION OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED, UH, RELATIVE TO THE TOURNAMENT OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS.

THE CONCERT WAS, WAS GREAT AS WELL.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK COUNCIL GENERAL LEY AND VICE COUNCIL WAS JERK.

UM, WE, THEY HAD, I HAD A WONDERFUL VISIT WITH THEM.

IT WAS GREAT FOR THEM TO COME AND, UH, TALK ABOUT FRIENDSHIP CITIES AND WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE MOVING FORWARD.

AND I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE, UM, WILL BE GAINING SOME MOMENTUM IN THAT SPACE.

UH, CONGRATULATE, UM, CERTAINLY CRAWFORD HOING AND, AND THE BRIDGE PARK FOLKS FOR FEST.

THEY, UH, HAD LOTS OF ACTIVITY FOR LOTS OF PEOPLE SUPPORTED BY OUR SAFETY TEAMS. SO, UH, THANKS TO ALL THAT, PULLED THAT OFF.

THE DRONE SHOW WAS FANTASTIC.

AGAIN, UH, WE HAVE A NEW PIECE OF PUBLIC ART HERE IN THE CITY THAT HAS OPENED AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO CELEBRATING THAT, UM, AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE.

BUT, UM, I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT WITH DAN SULLIVAN TODAY, AND, AND THEY WERE SO COMPLIMENTARY OF ALL THAT THE CITY DID.

BUT I, IN ADDITION TO THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT OUR STAFF PULLED OFF, I JUST WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT THEIR STAFF PULLED OFF, UM, TO HAVE.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WERE ON THE COURSE, YOU KNOW, HE SAID THEY DIDN'T ANTICIPATE THE FIRST RAIN DELAY ON SATURDAY.

THEY KNEW THAT THERE WOULD BE WEATHER COMING IN, NOT QUITE AS SEVERE AS IT WAS.

UM, BUT THE CLEANUP THAT THEY DID ON THAT GOLF COURSE TO GET IT SAFE FOR ALL OF THOSE PATRONS THE FOLLOWING DAY, I HEARD CHAINSAWS UNTIL PROBABLY MIDNIGHT THAT NIGHT.

AND SO THEY WERE REALLY BUSY DOING THOSE THINGS.

UH, AND THEN TO OUR INSPECTION TEAMS, THE FACT THAT ONLY ONE TELEVISION TOWER BLEW DOWN ON I THINK NUMBER SIX IS PRETTY AMAZING.

THE NUMBER OF TENTS THAT WERE OUT THERE THAT WERE NOT DAMAGED, I THINK SPEAKS VOLUMES TO, UH, THE INSPECTIONS THAT WERE DONE AND THE WAY THAT THEY WERE SAFELY INSTALLED.

BECAUSE I KNOW I LOST, UH, FOR YOU CAN PUT ME LAST ON THE CHIPPER SERVICE.

I, I KNOW EVERYBODY'S DEALING WITH IT, BUT THE LIMBS THAT CAME DOWN IN MY YARD THAT WERE BIGGER AROUND THAN MY LEG, I'VE LIVED THERE FOR 25 YEARS AND I'VE NEVER HAD ANYTHING LIKE THAT COME DOWN.

SO IT SPEAKS TO THE SEVERITY OF THAT STORM, UM, IN THAT, THAT WAS QUITE LOCALIZED IN THAT PLACE.

SO, UM, THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR, FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DID IN THAT, BECAUSE IT WAS A HEAVY LIFT.

AND WHILE OUR STAFF DID AMAZING

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AND I WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AS WELL.

SO WITH THAT, OH, OH OH.

AND YESTERDAY WAS A BIG CELEBRATION FOR A BIG BIRTHDAY FOR A BIG GIRL.

UH, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.