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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Planning and Zoning, Council, Architectural Review Board and Citizens Advisory Committee Page 4 plan, we started looking at community. How could this site benefit both the school and the new Community Center area and utilize the parking space that's really just an inefficient field right now. The aisles that exist are too wide. They don't need to be as wide as they are. How can we actually benefit both without blowing the budget? This shows you more of a birds-eye view. This is all underway. We have seen this and dealt with it today. It would be great to get the connection to the Community Center and Center School. This is an example of a floor plan. This is actually about the same square footage as the existing building. They are one or two inches off but overall they are pretty much the same size. You can see as you are planning it to be a Community Center and not a salt shed, how much more efficient you can make the spaces. When we originally did this, we wanted to keep the building as close as possible to the existing to make sure we were comparing apples to apples. We could obviously show an 8000 square foot building that blows the budget but the idea is how much would it be to build the existing building new? One of the features was the concession stand that is the white trailer in front of the Gazebo. One thought was how could we get that to be located in this building so we don't have the trailer on the front square and then dual purpose it so it can also be used as storage? It would serve the public if you could come up to the outside window and not have to come in to the building. You can see there's more efficient meeting room space, larger ceilings, you can get a light well in there. The porch off of it would address the green. One of the nicest things about relocating the building is its relationship to the green and not to have to cross parking to get to the green. The logistics of the kitchen, tables and chairs and what I may not be showing as part of the program is all going to get worked out You may look at this and see the kitchen is more like a residential kitchen and the other had a kitchen off the meeting rooms. We can figure all that stuff out, but the idea is overall what's the comparison in cost and benefits to building a new building? These are some ideas using the Western Reserve architecture of the area and responding back to the Civic Center. This gable right now would mirror the gable in the front entry here. It will give you the presence you are entering the Town Square of Mayfield Village. You will also notice that there's been traffic studies that the closer that these buildings are, people will slow down naturally as you create a smaller human scale aisle in the traffic. When I was looking at this building, I was thinking this is the community's house. This is the community's family room, kitchen. It's just a very large house. We are in discussions now with the School District on the most safest way to revise this parking lot, the whole parent drop-off and school bus drop-off and where parents can park. We have a shared parking lot. Mayor Rinker stated, we want to open up the floor for Q&A. One of the reasons we chose TDA is they have worked very extensively with the School District and a lot of other school districts. It brings an extra perspective to the relationship between our public space and the school's public space. At the end of the day, the ability for us to have a structure that really plants itself more on our park-like area where the outdoors are and good weather events where you have these French doors to walk out. Even if the