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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 8-16-10 Page 14 Mr. Marrelli stated, there are two offices. Ms. Longville stated, yes, there's office building vacancies. I just wanted to check and see what exactly was planned for my side of the street which is right now residential. I'm just trying to figure out. Mayor Rinker replied, it stays residential. One of the things that we had started, we acquired a couple of properties as they became available because we wanted to expand the greenspace. One of the things that I had pointed out a couple times to residents in the Aintree Park area was as we expected, if there were growth in the Beta Park area, between traffic and the overall change that we would look to creating more of a buffer there because those are narrow lots. They are not very deep, but we have not been at a11 aggressive. We've rarely been aggressive about acquiring properties. We have tried to do everything at arm's length. It's not always easy to assemble those plus they start getting to cost a little bit of money, so we have only acquired I think in all about three properties in and around that area. But our goal is to fortify the existing residential zoning on the south side of the street. That's another reason why we redid the street as you know there with the park-like setting. I thinlc that that has been an amenity and an enhancement both from traffic pattern and also from an aesthetic and that's really our overall game plan within reason as far as the costs go. Ms. Longville stated, when I saw the house come down next to this building, I just wondered if there was something else going on. Mayor Rinker stated, we were a liitle embarrassed at the state of disrepair. I think if someone were to come along and say that the parsonage was a blighted property, we'd have no argument against it and that's why we tore it down. We have another property that's up on SOM across from Fisher's, an older house there, and we're intending to take that down as well so that we just restore it to greenspace. Ms. Longville stated, it looks better than the properties next to it, but anyway, thank you. Council President Pro Tem Marrie thanked Ms. Longville. Since that's all that wish to speak, we will move on with the meeting. CONSIDERA'i'ION OF MINTTTES : Regulaa- Council Meeting - JuIY 19, 2010 ? J Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mrs. Cinco, made a motion to approve the minutes as written. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Minutes Approved _,,