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Regular Council Meeting 1-'1_9-07 Page 9 - I am adding another wrinkle tonight. I have been talking with Ron DiNardo, a new set of eyes and ideas. Ron has been very excited looking at the police station and looking at alternate energy. He and John have been talking about such things as using thermal underground heating for the police station. We are also looking for alternative forms of energy even in the roofing systems. We think we might be able to give it a shot on the pavilion roof, a traditional look, but it may be able to provide its own power and who knows what else we can do, but we think that as a public entity it is important for us to try to take a leadership position in building quality and building state of the art without doing it for its own sake but really to try to put it to good use. Stay tuned, I think that is going to be a project that we will find very interesting. The police station project itself, I think for Pat Dearden who has heard about the passibility of getting it going, is exciting. Years back, when we started talking about a fire station, we were able to get that finally going. It has'taken a little longer for the police station. One of the big moves was moving the administrative offices out of that existing building. But face it, our police department really needs a new home. We are at the point where we have got a footprint. We are probably ready to go out to bid in two, three months maybe. Our goal is in earnest to get the police station going. We are doing all these things in Mayfield Village without raising taxes. Our strategy has always been to find ways to put money to work where we feel we can cover the costs. The strategies we have worked with in the development of Progressive obviously has been very very critical toward that end. But it has gotten us looking at the future and looking at the alternatives. Many of you have already seen the Town Center Concept. Jeff was able to tape it back up on that wall and then we have another posterboard version on the easel. I want to have a town meeting where we invite everyone in the Village to this. We have had some previews with Planning and Zoning and a number of our other Committees. We have also talked with a number of the property owners. What you are seeing in that picture, I would say is a wish list. It is sort of like if you go to the restaurant, that is the menu of options. But the reality is we think that in Mayfield Village given our location we have an opportunity to take what is really an old and tired set up in Bf;ta and rejuvenate it to make it available for residential living, upgrading offices, some of the anlenities to go with it, some other restaurants, some other retail component. It's great to talk aUout these things. City Architecture worked a long time on the pictures starting generally with the center of town which was the charge from 2020, but then also expanding to encompass as you see in the foreground Beta because we think that if we really look at this with our eyes wide open we have to look to the center of our Village as the focus for our redevelopment. We don't have a zoning code that has that type of product in it, so a big challenge I see collectively for us is really naw to start looking. And when you think about it, we went through a period of planning. 2020 dii3 some very significant work, working with David Hartt. We shifted from the planning canceptual group and got a guidebook out of that. It took about two years. City Architecture has naw given us a visualization of some of those ideas, but now it is to come back to and really do what I think is some very hard intellectual work in looking at our Planning and Zoning Code and coming up with a category that will allow us to develop something like this and feel secure that it is something that is going to work.