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Regular Council Minutes 11-15-04 Page 7 can say to Mr. Volpe and his firm, really go out, take a look at this. I think it can include canvassing some of the businesses in the area, draw from a lot of the dialog that we have already engaged in ourselves, 2020 especially and then just depict 2-3 different types of options. And I think what we will be able to do then is take that and then begin to build and look at soiree very constructive ways. Because I think at the end of the day we will be looking at economic strategies and overall quality of life strategies; if we look at mixed uses, what is the right mix of uses in there. We have seen with Judge Krenzler's property for example, he is already looking to build some 2 dozen cluster homes. Is there a way that we can integrate residential with business with recreational; is there any retail component we want to introduce to this? As we have looked at that and as we are looking across the street with the relationship between Heinen's, the Jadd Mall, the Church, looking across the street where Deacon's and the Carney properties are-all of these in different ways are touching upon what I think is a common theme. We like what we have in the Village but we recognize that the heart of our Village needs refurbishing and the question is how best to go about it. 20201ooked at a lot of these issues and I think gave us a bit of a foundation, if you will, for starting to look into more detail, to delve into this. When 2020 really finished its work as a group this past year, one of the things I challenged them to do is look at themselves as an implementation group, hang around, stick around. Citizen's Advisory is another area where we have residents who come together for a variety of reasons but again, this is not an exclusive review process--this shouldn't just strictly be for Council, or Planning & Zoning or Architectural Review Board or 2020, or Citizen's Advisory, this is the kind of stuff where we know as a community we want to get involved. My hope is by coming up with something 3-D-three-dimensional, recognizing it is going to be a representation and a view of one outfit only-and I think I have to qualify it in other words, they are going to' come in with a different perspective. But I think having someone else's eyes look at things we've been looking at will help us focus even better on some of these issues. So without trying to sound too grandiose, I don't know of an easier way to do it than to try to get someone who has had some experience doing this and really come in and really give us some representations and I think can capture the imagination. For example, I have talked a number of times about look at the greenway trail that you could do an interior corridor. The C.E.I. property where we have an easement and that is on the agenda tonight--we already have an easement negotiated with Judge Krenzler on his property. Those 2 will marry right on his west boundary line and on CEI's east boundary line to create a corridor there.We have a grant application that is going through a very slow process with ORNR from the tunnel just north of Fisher's running all the way back to Wilson Mill. Creating that pathway corridor which I see as also creating a utility corridor is one step; it is kind of a building block. I have talked before though; what if you looked at Beta as a campus? If you consider the buildings that are there and the interior space-envision if you will-opening it up even more visually. More of a quadrangle type of relationship. What does that do for the property values? What are the opportunities that you present to the buildings that are there, the owners who are there-for some kind of redevelopment? But the problem is redevelop what? What is we want? Well we aren't really sure, we just know we'd like to have something better. What I am hoping is that an architect can bring that sort of spatial relationship onto paper, bring it into view and then we will see where we go from there. The idea is to stimulate more conversation, more dialog. It is not to restrict but to open up. And I think for all of us it helps us to have those kind of visualizations so we get past the abstraction and get past a lot of verbiage that you get from the Mayor or elsewhere and really try to make it something much more three dimensional; more concrete if you will. So I wanted to take this opportunity, I