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Residents urge council to revisit Echo Hill deal, cite builder restriction and house count; request buffers and tree protections
Summary
Multiple residents told Mentor City Council they want the previously negotiated Echo Hill development agreement reopened to reconsider the builder restriction and the agreed 35-house cap, and asked for buffers and preserved trees between the new development and existing properties.
Several residents who live adjacent to the Echo Hill property on Garfield Road pressed Mentor City Council on Jan. 7 to reopen and revise a previously negotiated development agreement they say limits the builder and specifies a 35-home maximum.
Councilmember Peter Donovan told residents he had been working with them since 2019 to shape the deal. “We actually thought we were done with this,” Donovan said. “...some of my colleagues here wanna bring this back up to council and they wanna amend the 100 homes or less in the custom home builder clause that we work so hard to put in here. I’m gonna fight it.”
Residents said the agreement had reduced a prior proposal of as many as 42 homes down to 35 and included a clause that the builder be a local custom-home builder who builds “100 homes or less.” John Cabot, a resident of Eleanor Court, told the council he…
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