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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 17, 2015 Page 5 vote on it. If it is a case where it is a positive thing, we would allow the variance, from something small like a parking space to a setback or things like that. We would then receive approval from Council and a Special Use Permit or Conditional Use Permit would be issued. What happens there is those have to be renewed every two years. Sometimes that's a good thing. Sometimes that might be a little problematic. Not to us. It gives us a layer of protection. We vote on a long list of about 40 special use permits here in the Village. Some of them date back to the `60's. They have to renew them every two years. What we proposed was allowing the Board of Zoning Appeals to grant a use variance for a piece of zoned property. It would have to be zoned commercial. The use variance would be instead of the applicant having to come back every couple years the land would be granted a use variance so that they would not have to come back and apply. The reasoning was to make it more attractive. If someone were coming to the Village to invest a couple million dollars on existing property and convert it to something other than its intended usage, industrial which most of it is zoned as such, if someone were coming to do that and were going to invest millions of dollars we felt at times that they would be a little reluctant to say I am going to sink all this money in there for me to come back every two years and do this. What that would permit is it goes with the land. The conditions would be set. It would have to go through Council and a public hearing in order for them to approve. It was an idea to maybe free it up a little bit. It doesn't change any zoning law. For example, Deacon's, for the past five years the only zoning law voted on as an electorate was whether property behind Deacon's which was zoned residential to a commercial use so they could expand their lot. This would not apply. If this were put on the ballot and passed, this would not apply because that was zoned residential. There's no motivation. We are trying to free things. What we are seeing now on Beta Drive and Ted can attest to this, we are having a Cheerleading School that is going to be in there. Non-traditional uses for these places because the industrial kind of thing is not really viable anymore. We are trying to roll with the times and keep Beta Drive felled and going and keep the Village thriving. That was our only motivation. This would apply in very few cases. It would only apply in industrial commercial areas and only if someone wanted to apply for it that was considering it. We felt we made it more attractive so they don't have to come back every two years. They then don't consider it. That was our reasoning. Does anyone have any other questions? Al Hehr 6708 Glenview I would say that we were not pushed in any particular direction. As a matter of fact, the initial proposals that came out went from very broad to very large variations to the Charter down to these very narrow and very specific variations. We felt residential should stay residential unless the people want that change. We believed that was extremely important that that go back to a vote.