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Council committee approves limited Saturday start-time exception for school construction after neighbor outreach
Summary
City council’s Committee of the Whole approved sending a noise-exemption ordinance back to council with revised language limiting the waiver to the project's general contractor after the school district’s contractor requested earlier Saturday start times to recover weather delays for a high-school construction project.
At a Committee of the Whole meeting on April 21, 2025, North Ridgeville council debated and voted to send back to council for amendment an ordinance that would suspend the city's noise ordinance for a school construction project so contractors could begin certain Saturday work at 7 a.m. rather than the usual 9 a.m.
Mayor Corcoran explained the request from Hammond Construction, which had asked for relief “from the start time on a Saturday morning to 07:00 instead of 9” to allow crews to make up time after weather delays and to help the project meet milestones tied to opening the new high school in August 2028. Corcoran said the administration and contractor met with nearby residents, mailed 40 to 50 letters to…
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