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The presenter outlined goals that included marketing and adaptive reuse of large medical-office buildings, repurposing slip lanes to improve pedestrian safety and create development opportunities, encouraging mixed-use infill (retail at street level with housing above), and improving multimodal access and streetscape amenities. Council members said the plan offers concrete ideas but stressed that many items are conceptual and would need detailed study and community input.

Tied legislative items:
- Ordinance 74-2025 (amending the city zoning map to designate certain properties R-1 single-family residential) was on third reading but council held action after staff said property-owner notices required by law were not distributed to all affected owners. Council scheduled another public hearing date later so owners may be notified and heard.
- Resolution 94-2025 (adopt the Richmond Chardon Streetscape and Business Revitalization Plan) was introduced and taken at first reading; councilmembers said they needed more time to read the packet before a vote.
- Ordinance 80-2025 (amend Planning & Zoning Code to prohibit adult-use cannabis operators and medical marijuana entities) is on second reading and a public hearing is on the regular meeting agenda. City staff explained the ordinance would prohibit commercial cannabis operators and medical marijuana entities within the city while noting state law still allows home cultivation where permitted by state rules. The ordinance would override the city's earlier 2017 decision permitting medical marijuana entities if adopted.

Council discussion emphasized that the streetscape plan is a set of recommendations and that any physical changes or zoning updates would require subsequent public hearings and formal votes. Council members also noted a past community meeting where a resident described a fatal traffic accident near the slip lane area; members said safety concerns shaped several recommended treatments for the corridor.

Next steps: Council held the zone-map amendment at third reading to allow for legally required owner notification, kept the revitalization plan at first reading for more review time, and scheduled the cannabis ordinance for public hearing during the regular meeting so members of the public can comment before further council action.

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The plan, presented to the council by Beth Biggins Ramer, executive director of the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District, lays out a rolling 15-year master plan of programs and targets the district will pursue if ratified by member jurisdictions and approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. \"We are an enterprise fund, we are self funded, and there will be no new fees in this plan,\" Biggins Ramer said during the presentation.

The plan document described in the presentation totals 329 pages with an executive summary the district provided to local jurisdictions. Biggins Ramer told the council the district intends to draw on its fund balance to launch new services and that the district's current generation fee is $2 per ton; she said that remains unchanged under the plan.

Why it matters: Under Ohio statute and Ohio EPA oversight, the district must secure ratification by member communities representing 60% of the county's population (including the county's largest political subdivision) before submitting the plan package back to the EPA for final approval. The district expects to visit member communities through an outreach period that ends Aug. 10 to collect local resolutions supporting the plan, then compile the documentation for the EPA.

Key elements: The district said the plan keeps existing programs — household hazardous waste collection, a scrap-tire collection, monthly drop-off for specialty wastes — and adds proposals such as a textile-analysis study, expanded organics and yard-waste efforts, and an expanded litter-removal program. Biggins Ramer said the district currently sponsors two litter crews and is proposing a third crew plus a hotline to allow jurisdictions to report high-priority hotspots for more nimble pickup.

Funding and timing: Biggins Ramer said the district expects to spend more than current annual revenue for an initial period and will use fund balance to pay start-up costs for new services. She said the district's budgeted revenue includes the $2-per-ton generation fee paid within the county; the plan itself does not create a new local fee.

Council members raised practical questions about litter and hotspots after the recent opening of a Meijer store serving multiple nearby communities. Biggins Ramer said the district's contractor conducts scheduled runs through member communities at least twice a year and that the district can add a hotspot to the contractor's route schedule.

Votes at a glance (formal votes recorded during the committee meeting):
- Resolution 79-2025 (Adopt Solid Waste Management Plan) — outcome: approved (unanimous roll-call: Jordan, Justice, Lewis, Nelson, Robinson, Silver, Pursue; mover/second: not specified in record). This was recorded as second reading and adopted at committee.
- Resolution 90-3-2025 (Cuyahoga County CDBG application for community center AV upgrades, ~$150,000 with ~10% local match) — outcome: moved to council for consideration (unanimous roll-call recorded). Mover/second: not specified.
- Resolution 95-2025 (Purchase battery-powered smoke ejector for fire division, $6,000) — outcome: recommended to council / vote recorded in committee as favorable (unanimous roll-call recorded); amount provided in the presentation.
- Resolution 92-2025 (Disposal of obsolete City Hall property — computers/printers) — outcome: moved to council (unanimous roll-call recorded).
- Resolution 96-2025 (Adopt July/August council meeting schedule; emergency) — outcome: approved at committee (unanimous roll-call recorded).

What the council did not finalize: The district presentation is one step in the statutory ratification process. The district must collect supporting resolutions from member communities that together represent at least 60% of the county population before the plan package is returned to the Ohio EPA for a final finding and order.

The council recorded no dissenting votes on the committee actions listed above. The city will receive the district's materials (executive summary and plan) for its records and next steps on ratification and any subsequent local actions.

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