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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, August 8, 2011 Page 5 the Mayor, the Mayor said, well, Jim this is a beautiful plan but it doesn't fit in my Town Center. After many hours working with David and the Architectural Review Board, I think we came up with a good plan. Also, I think we are going to grow the business quite a bit. We are looking at it almost doubling our sales, quite a bit more personnel. If we moved out of the Village, it would be a considerable tax revenue loss here. I actually reside in Mayfield Village. I think we have exceptional city services, but of course to have those exceptional services, we need the tax revenue. I think this project will definitely help that. I think that's important for the residents to consider. Finally, it has to be good for the residents. Number one, I think they need a business that is aesthetically pleasing to them and also we can provide a service where they don't have to drive 40 minutes to get their car serviced or whatever. Again, I think it needs to be a win-win-win. We started with a very contemporary plan. I would like to introduce the Architect, Randy Smith. I think Randy's done an excellent job of taking the contemporary design. Chrysler has really two, correct me if I'm wrong Jack, but two main main requirements. One is they need the new branded arch. It's an arch with stainless steel trim. They want all the dealers to have this. The other thing, they want from the street a service entrance visible from the street. This design man has accomplished that but also did it in a western reserve flair that I think is actually very classy and very good looking. Randy, if you can share some of this with everybody. Council President Pro Tem Marrie asked Jim, was that that one mile radius, Ohio franchise law? Mr. Deacon replied, yes, Ohio law. It went into effect in the 80's. I believe it went into effect in 1982. It was to protect business owners who had franchises and investments so that a bigger dealer with more money couldn't open up a half mile down the road and put him out of business. Unfortunately I think that law and the way it's based on the 10 mile, personally I would like to see it maybe changed or revised. I think not so much in Columbus which is more of a newer growing City, but in Cleveland, Toledo and Cincinnati, there's a lot of dealers like ourselves that went into business maybe in the '60's and it may be time to renovate or maybe they want to build a new building or new facility and because of the constraints from another dealer, they are not able to do so, so now it's actually cumbersome. We have an Ohio Automobile Dealers' Association that puts a lot of legislature like this out there and they do a good job running the organization. Of course the problem for them if they ask me and I am 7.2 miles from the next guy, they say well Jim, what's the good amount and I say, I think it's 7. Well the guy up the street there, he thinks it 7.5 because he's trying to protect himself, so I am not sure if that 10 mile requirement will go away. It probably won't. It has tied our hands a little bit. We have been here in the Village. It's my understanding that was a Chevrolet store back in 1926. I have some repair bills from 1932 when it was called Mayfield Sales and Services. It was called South Euclid, Ohio. A tune-up was $1.95. Council President Pro Tem Marrie thanked Mr. Deacon.