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Special Council Minutes 5/9/OS Page 11 SLIDE: What's Next? Mayor Rinker said and at the time, What's Next-we went on to in 1997, kind of the projection notice--this is the Indoor Recreation Center and tennis courts that didn't quite get built that way. And [pointing to the area] this is about where our swimming pool is. SLIDE: Progressive Campus III Mayor Rinker said just to recapitulate, as Rose has indicated this is the concept plan showing the alignment of the 3 buildings, parking. This is the area that I understand Progressive is looking at as treating as a Conservation District which is tantamount to the kind of preservative that we have for our Wetland. In other words, in order to be accepted by County Soils and Water Department, there are certain limitations to how this can be maintained, but fundamentally, it can not be developed. And so we see that as probably one of the most effective ways to buffer the residences along Highland to the way the site is developed. Mayor Rinker said also, again, looking at the Concept Plan, and as Rose explained they were looking at prevailing weather patterns but also it really puts the bulk of the mass on the more oblique plane adjacent to these properties. You get the point of the garage instead of the full side of the garage. The same thing here--here where the surface area is full frontal mass, it is still removed enough and again it is on an oblique plane and we think that in many respects it probably reflects the best kind of geometric relationship between this footprint and the pre- existing residential properties. Mayor Rinker said the other thing--you may recall when we were here 2 years with Goldberg, we had approved variances that allowed for a 4-story structure of about 111,000 square feet right about in this area [on the picture shown in gray) on 10 of the acres out of the property-at the time they had hoped to have 2 tenants and they felt that would be enough for them to undertake the cost of constructing the building itself. Well that never happened. The office market has been very, very soft in the area. If you look at Beachwood and Rockside Road as being the primary nodes and face it, we always have to deal with property owners look to the marketplace. And Goldberg approached this thing with the goal of being able to construct; they had some potential tenants in tow; they lost them. They did go ahead and purchase what we know as the Dussi property-and again some early mitigation effort; you know some of the ponding that people would see down in that area was attendant to early site redevelopment from Goldberg's standpoint. But other than that, those were the only changes made to the property. So we have always been aware that the Goldberg approach would have been a subdivision approach-a commercial subdivision approach. What this demonstrates and what I tried to show earlier is that with concentration really almost like a bulls eye inside of a target, in the nuclear center of the property, this spatial relationship really maximizes the goal of achieving a good buffering effect against residential areas to allow us to aggregate contiguous land as it becomes available along S.O.M. and generally just continue with the pattern that we have followed. SLIDE: The Total Picture 1997 Through 2007 Mayor Rinker said then I guess the last picture is where we began. This shows the relationship between the north campus. This particular picture does not show what the handout shows. The handout shows the swimming pool is right about in this area. This is our Wetland Preserve which has a one-mile walking path around it. These are the 3 ball fields we've constructed. They will