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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Planning and Zoning, Council, Architectural Review Board and Citizens Advisory Committee Page 3 ceiling and noticed the column is supporting about an 18-20 inch steel beam: Just to do that we would have to have a new beam and columns that would pick up that beam. This wall is also wood bearing. As we looked at the original proposal to respond to the RFP and open up the space as much as possible, we realized that quite honestly the best way to do this is to demo all of that structure out and put a new structure in. Otherwise you are retrofitting at almost the same cost to provide that space and the unforeseen that come out of renovating can exponentially raise the construction cost. This all started out as a salt barn. Flat roof. Somewhere along the way, they put a pitched roof on it. Part of our task is to open this up, make it bright and airy. To do that, it costs quite a bit of money. It can be done and we can still do this. We are also looking at another way. A little bit more money. We can renovate or build new. This is the existing floor plan. Two meeting rooms, an office with two storage rooms and fireplace. One thing to note is the way the existing building is shows that it was a smaller building that continued to be added on. Things that you would want to utilize are not necessary in the locations you would want them The fireplace is in one of the smallest rooms. Rarely do you see a larger group actually addressing the fireplace. The kitchen is very small. As we worked with the team from the Village to go through the original idea of the plans, we started to develop a new plan. The new plan, if we were to open up this space and provide operable partitions that allow flexible use of the space, relocate the bar, move the office closer to the bathrooms, it gives a nice entrance and access from the entrance and a lot larger kitchen which would allow catering to easy access and be right off the meeting room. There's a lot of groups that use the Community Center. It would be apre-function space. If you have a large meeting, you might have people conversing out here and then going into the meeting. As we started looking at this plan, we started thinking in our head, all right, if we are taking the roof off and putting new structure in and moving the kitchen to the place that would allow it to be larger then we are spending a lot of money to almost build a new building with an existing shell that is no longer going to be an existing shell. That made us all think, how much would it cost to build a new building if we just used simple wood frame construction? Through the aesthetic of the design, we also wanted to provide higher ceilings and more daylight. That's where the dormers come in. They also respond to the buildings that are down Wilson Mills with the dormer look. We also are looking to provide more handicap accessibility and a porch. Step back to the site plan, as we were looking at, it and talking about how the new building could actually benefit this, we first have to evaluate exactly how this building was. The building itself does not actually respond to the green. It is set back from the parking. As we planned forward, we looked at quite a few different options. This is one and it is just a taste. It is an idea. It's still being molded. We can shift things around.. This is the one we chose to present. We started looking at the relationships to the Civic Center and how to create this as an actual Town Square. Also opening up the views to the Center School which is hidden in the back. One of the big things that drove this as we started was there are two drives here right now which really actually is not the best traffic pattern. I am sure many have seen there is no left turn lane here, so in the mornings cars will stack up here. They can get in to drop off, but all the employees of Progressive traffic is coming in here and getting backed up because the people that are dropping their kids off. As we looked at the site