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Minutes of a Public Hearing <br />October 6, 2010 <br />Page 16 <br />can is to try to advance discussion so that we can deliberate and I don't exp'ect people to be <br />neutral on opinions, but I really would like some questions. I think we can try to field them. <br />* ?: * <br />Q: In the early part of the discussion, the first gentleman talked about a loss of <br />competitiveness because of Issue 84. I have no idea what you're talking about with that. <br />Could you maybe outline and discuss that a little bit? <br />Mr. Fikaris: I believe the initial discussion arose in that when referendum zoning at times <br />becomes a hindrance when a developer or somebody is choosing between communities <br />and the cost and time investment to deal with a community with mandatory referendum <br />zoning that plays into a decisionmaking on the part of developers. That's how this <br />discussion started. We said axe we putting ourselves in the best light by doing that? It <br />was explained and discussed that given the choice, more often than not, in a competitive <br />market that somebody seeking to deal with one community over another, that is a <br />deciding factor or a major factor in whether they want to deal with one community over <br />the other, whether there's referendum zoning because there's time and money investment <br />and if the other communiry does not, and all things being equal, they will just go to the <br />next community and deal with it that way. That was our thought. <br />Mayor Rinker:If I can segue off that, but I guess this is for Professor Keller, with this idea about <br />what's competitive in an issue in zoning. Have you had experience dealing with <br />communities where this very specific issue of referendum zoning has come up in the <br />context of competitive decisionmaking, the time of decisionmaking? <br />Dr. Keller: No. Not personally. It has been an issue for economic development because the cost <br />of development does make a difference and they can choose. There's 50 some <br />municipalities in Cuyahoga County so it does make a difference, or could. <br />Mayor Rinker: Okay. Thank you. <br /> <br />Q: My first question is to Mr. Fikaris that's related to the question this gentleman asked. <br />Many of us moved to the Village because we like it the way it is. Not because we want <br />to see it develop according to anyone else's vision. Can you explain why there's such an