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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, August 8, 2011 Page 8 dedicated greenspace was year-round opacity, that there would be screening. So whether it be both a combination of fence and plantings or evergreens and that's one of the reasons we want the Village to have control over the greenspace areas to make sure that opacity is patent. But that will be an issue as a final site plan issue that would be addressed at the time construction pernuts would be issued. John, I don't know if there's anything to add. Mr. Marrelli stated, we spoke last week about this. We talked about the opacity and the fencing and any kind of landscaping there. I made it clear, it is hard to imagine a 40 foot buffer when you're out there walking around, so it's not real clear to people how big 40 feet of landscaping is. We talked about that. I mentioned that if that's all filled in with landscaping, there's actually no way you can see through there because if it's an evergreen screen and it's 40 feet wide, there would be no visibility from the yard. Mr. Marrelli continued, a good point that Mr. Pollack brought up was what about some mounding along Wilson Mills. I was going to mention that to Randy. They have to dig some soil out to make their detention area so maybe as a cost-savings you can take the soil out of the detention pond and put it on the Wilson Mills side and then put the landscaping on that to give it a little more height. Council President Pro Tem Marrie stated, you would have a natural buffer then. Mr. Marrelli agreed. You will raise the level of the landscaping. Mr. Pollack stated, it will actually save Deacon's money because the retention pool he is going to have to excavate. If you put that soil on Wilson Mills you would actually assure that you are not going to see the cars and it looks like parkland because you're raising the level of the topography and it would actually save them from taking this dirt and dumping it. They could use that as a screening on Wilson Mills. Council President Pro Tem Marrie stated, as a natural buffer. Mr. Marrelli stated, in other words, take the spoils out of the retention pond and put it along Wilson Mills where the landscape is, just raise the landscaping a little bit because Wilson Mills starts to descend and then that landscaping would pretty much cover all the trucks. Mayor Riulcer added for Mr. Pollack's and everyone's benefit, not only Mr. Marrelli is here. We've got Tom Cappello, who's our engineer. We've also got Ron Wynne, our Finance Director if you have any questions about some of the economics as well. These are questions that are good for all of us to note down. Council President Pro Tem Marrie thanked Mr. Pollack. Good point. Anyone else? Any other questions or comments? Mrs. Mills asked, with this Development Agreement, and I'm sure this won't happen, if and when the properiy was ever sold to another car dealership, would we have to reenter into another Development Agreement?