| that the Committee wanted to remove the significance of the structure as being |
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| historic. He thought in all fairness to the process of a public hearing and the process |
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| of democracy, the Preliminary Report should not have a pre-designated conclusion. |
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| The public hearing should be first, then the Committee should review those minutes, |
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| and then should bring the minutes back and make a conclusion. The other thing he |
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| thought was of great importance was the Committee really had to understand their |
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| decision. It was mentioned that the final decision was left to City Council, but the |
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| Committee was the expert with the degrees, the credentials and the incredible |
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| knowledge of making the right decision. If the Committee makes the decision to |
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| remove this as historic significance in Rochester Hills, then the Committee will have |
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| condemned its death. There really is no way after the Committee has made its |
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| decision that a municipal's legal department can ever defend the property. Any |
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| intelligent judge in the world is going to look at your decision and not the emotions of |
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| the Rochester Hills City Council and the elected officials of saving this property or not. |
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| They would look at the Committee's report and any intelligent judge would certainly |
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| respect the Committee's report way above that crowd. He really appreciated that the |
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| Committee took serious consideration on their decision about what they wanted to do |
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| with this piece of property. If the Committee does decide the significance of this 1900 |
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| Queen Anne house was not worthy of keeping in the City and they want to remove it |
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| from the site, obviously the developer wants to tear it down tomorrow, he wanted the |
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| Committee to "please" strongly recommend that we also send a message to the City |
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| Council that the PUD is null and no good anymore. He wanted the Rochester Hills |
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| City Council to know, especially with John's history of the City, that this property was |
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| zoned single family residential and that this property should be reverted back to single |
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| family residential if this particular developer desires to tear down this house. He or |
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| she certainly has the full ability of a U.S. citizen of a capitalist "you name it" to come |
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| back before the City Council and ask for a rezoning. They asked for a brand new |
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| PUD to be written. He wanted to make sure that in the Committee's recommendation |
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| and also from the Planning Department, that because this particular property was so |
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| tied in to drafting these PUDs, to either build a strip mall or an office complex or |
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| whatever, that the Committee strongly recommend that because the Committee made |
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| the decision that this home be torn down or they made the decision to allow this home |
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| to be torn down, that the Committee also put in its report that they strongly |
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| recommend to the Rochester Hills City Council that this property be reverted to back |
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| to its original intent which was a single family residential development. Obviously they |
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| knew as well as he did that the reasons that he made to save the house and build |
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| office is you can’t build a 1,800 square foot house next door to a gigantic house. You |
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| can't take this house and turn it into clubhouse for a condominium complex, it would |
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| be way too expensive for any condominium development for its upkeep, and it could |
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| not be turned in to a funeral home, and it could not be turned into a church. He was |
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| sure he exhausted all possibilities of what to do with the house, but at least these |
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| Minutes be passed on to the Rochester Hills City Council and the Committee does |
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| make the strongest recommendation if they de-designate the house as historic, that |
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| their recommendation to the Rochester Hills City Council that the property be rezoned |
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