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Regular Council Meeting 12-13-99 Page 7 And you can put Uncle Bob's U-Store 'em warehouse facilities on a lot of the acreage that is directly west of your house. We cannot keep all development from happening. What we've decided to do was to try to tame if you will, those forces and channel the development and concentrate it in certain ways. Since 1995, Mayfield Village has gone from owning a little over 7 acres of land to owning well over 100+ acres of land. And, all the land that we are acquiring in the Village is intended to keep green space, to maintain a buffer, to keep a lot of the kind of growth that many other suburbs have not been able to control, we've tried to keep it under control. I would challenge anyone to say that we are not doing a .pretty effective job. Can we do it perfectly? No, we cannot. Part of our responsibility is to address the concentrated development that we put in and we've tried to balance it and tried to offset it. Ladies and gentlemen, I will state categorically, my goal in all of this as we look at the need to widen S.O.M. Center Road, is to do it in a way. that will have a minimal impact. That will maintain Village characteristics. The fact of the matter is that it is important for us to continue discussing, continue studying, not simply expressing opinions and not expressing simply our fears, but to try to evaluate in better detail, what the issues are that we face. We have to widen S.O.M. by 4 lanes. At any major intersection, that requires a 5~` lane. There are a number of spots along this corridor where the width of the road will be just the way it is right out in front of the Methodist Church, in front of Deacon's right here on S.O.M. Center Road or the way it is on Wilson Mills. What we have tried to do is to consider those options, a way to soften that impact. We cannot keep it from happening but we are trying to channel it in such a way. Mayor Rinker said what I am asking Council to do tonight, in looking at the width, this is not a decision to put in medians or not to put in medians. This is not a decision to let everything go to hell in a hand basket. This is a way for us to try to control, as much as possible, the destiny that we have in front of us. If you look back over the last few years at the properties that we have acquired, and I will cite them: we bought the land at Bonnieview when the County left there. (That is 10 acres of land and we have let that stay undeveloped.) We bought along White Road when we saw that we were looking in the Northwest Quadrant, we bought a chunk of land right next to I-271 on White Road. (It's about 7 acres there and we want that to remain undeveloped.) Because we had to look at ways to control the traffic, we acquired two properties: the Lampbright properties, on White Road. That is where the road enters in off of White, North Commons Boulevard. Wg then acquired the land that is on the west and on the south side of Mt. Sinai. The Village owns that land and has no plans to develop it. We have recently concluded-- the one lawsuit that we got involved in was with the Midvale properly owners and the Midvale property owners who wanted to develop commercially if possibly. The deal that we struck with them is the Village acquires all of the land that is east of that area.. Mr. and Mrs. Lazzaro, it is not, a question of whether that road will ever go in, part of our settlement agreement is to vacate that paper street so that it will be erased off of the record books. So, there will be no road at Midvale any further. That is land that we've acquired to attach to the other acreage that we have with Parkview. We knew that a lot of people wanted to retain Parkview golf course and we did consult with a lot of citizens. We, in fact, convened a number of workshops. This was a number of years ago, and we looked at some of these options. We've acquired out of the land swap and consolidation with Progressive, more acres than we acquired from the golf course proper. We have not kept a golf course but we've kept a lot of open space. While some people may not like