Hudson City Council will hold a public hearing and second reading Tuesday, September 15th at 7:30pm on a settlement that would allow Prestige Builder Group, George Vizmeg, and related LLCs build a 32-lot Open Space Conservation Subdivision at Ravenna Street and Stow Road.
This is not the final vote. A third reading is still required before Council can adopt the resolution and authorize the City Manager to sign. That is why tomorrow still matters. The hearing is when the public record is built. The second reading is when Council moves the deal one step closer. If residents stay home, the third reading gets easier.
That project is the same one Planning Commission rejected, BZBA affirmed, Council denied, and Summit County Common Pleas Court rejected last year. The developers appealed. The city had already won. Now the city is offering them the approvals they could not earn through the process.
The official notice says the deal resolves “pending litigation and a multi-million dollar administrative hardship claim” and would authorize a 32-lot plan “substantially in accordance with the September 12, 2025 Preliminary Plan.” The land is farmland in District 2, bordered on the south by the Norfolk Southern line.
The conflict did not go away
Vizmeg donated to the 2025 campaigns of Amanda Weinstein, Samantha D’Eramo, and Kyle Brezovec. Those three now sit on the body that would deliver the project. Weinstein, D’Eramo, and Brezovec have said the amounts are small and did not influence them. D’Eramo and Brezovec say they did not even know about the donations until recently. Summit County Board of Elections Deputy Director Pete Zeigler said no formal elections complaint has been filed. That does not erase the appearance.
Clocktower Files previously documented Vizmeg circulating campaign materials without the required disclosure and emailing City Planner Nick Sugar about canvassing against incumbents who had voted the project down. Recusal is still the clean answer. Sitting through the hearing, the second reading, and a later third reading after taking the donor’s money is the opposite.
Hudson’s Charter still says Planning Commission is the Platting Commission. Approving a subdivision through a lawsuit settlement is the workaround the first article flagged. That question has not been answered in public.
Hudson residents also deserve a straight answer on whether this settlement is already a done deal in everything but the public vote. Council members have refused to discuss the agreement on the advice of legal counsel. That raises an obvious question: has the City already signed a nondisclosure agreement, or otherwise committed to terms, before Tuesday’s hearing and second reading? If the public is being asked to comment on a resolution while elected officials say they cannot talk about it, residents need to know what has already been promised, who signed it, and whether the hearing is genuine review or theater after the fact. Legal privilege is not a reason to hide whether Council is walking into second reading with its hands already tied.
What residents who object need to do — tonight and tomorrow
- Show up Tuesday. Public hearing and second reading start at 7:30 p.m., Town Hall, 27 E. Main Street. You may speak. Bring a written copy of your comments.
- Email every member 4:30 p.m. Tuesday so comments can be entered for the record. Use a subject line that names the item: Public comment — Resolution 26-118 / Canterbury Meadows settlement
City emails (publicly listed):
- Amanda Weinstein (At-Large): aweinstein@hudson.oh.us
- Samantha D’Eramo (At-Large): sderamo@hudson.oh.us
- Kyle Brezovec (At-Large): kbrezovec@hudson.oh.us
- Patricia Goetz (Ward 1): pgoetz@hudson.oh.us
- Dan White (Ward 2): dwhite@hudson.oh.us
- Skylar Sutton (Ward 3): ssutton@hudson.oh.us
- Mike Bird, Council President (Ward 4): mbird@hudson.oh.us
- Council comments inbox: CouncilComments@hudson.oh.us
Phones: Weinstein 440-823-8202 · D’Eramo 440-823-2325 · Brezovec 234-422-3649 · Goetz 234-346-2921 · White 330-805-3428 · Sutton 330-422-3939 · Bird 234-346-2942 ·
Do not wait for the third reading. Comments at tomorrow’s hearing and emails received before the meeting become part of the official record. If objectors stay quiet now, the last reading will look uncontested.
Suggested points if you write or speak
Keep it to the record, not personalities:
- The city already won at Planning Commission, BZBA, Council, and Common Pleas. Explain why settling after that win is in the public interest, not just the developer’s.
- Ask Weinstein, D’Eramo, and Brezovec to recuse themselves from the hearing, the second reading, and any later third reading. The remaining members can decide the settlement without the donor’s beneficiaries in the room.
- Ask whether Council is lawfully acting as platting authority under Charter Section 9.02.
- Ask for the independent consultant report Weinstein cited, the full settlement text, and the hardship-claim dollar figure — in public, before a third reading.
- Neighbors within 1,000 feet already argued incompatibility, land disturbance, and open-space shortfalls. Those findings were the reason the first plan died. What changed besides the election?
- Make clear you understand Tuesday is not final passage. Ask Council to slow down, take the hearing seriously, and not treat the third reading as a rubber stamp.
A campaign donation is legal. Settling litigation can be rational. Doing both after the city had already won, then moving a second reading the night of the public hearing, is why residents should fill the room tomorrow — before the third reading ever happens.
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