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Special Council Minutes 5/9/OS Page 4 Council President Buckholtz said let me just finish by saying congratulations on acquiring this major piece of property. You have been a great neighbor and a first-class citizen of the community and we are glad to see you continuing. Having said that, Mayor-- Mayor Rinker said one, thank you very much for the presentation for benefit of the people in the audience. As alluded to, Council was given an opportunity to view this a little bit earlier but given the sensitivity of the circumstance, Progressive's effort to purchase at arm's length the Costanzo property, which is the subject of the Resolution of Intent tonight, it has brought us to a point where we recognize the necessity of our having to acquire that property in conjunction with this development if we are going to make it work. What I thought would be helpful for us all, I will apologize ahead of time and beg your indulgence, but to me what is so compelling and I think a lot of us saw it when we first observed the site plan showing the north and south campuses of S.O.M. as depicted on this Concept 7, is the similarity with the concept plan that we introduced to Mayfield Village residents in October of 1997 before one shovel of dirt was even turned; it was fully a conceptual plan and I thought that it would be helpful-both for the record and for our own edification to Council and those of you in the audience to revisit; we will try to streamline. What was presented, we had two town hall meetings back in 1997. We were up at the High School for the larger of the two and I would say we probably had over 300 residents at the 8-9 cafeteria at the time when we were projecting what we saw as a cooperative proposal between Mayfield Village and Progressive with whom we were in negotiation to place Progressive on its current north campus site and also with the Goldberg companies who owned the property--the bulk of the location for this second campus. So with that, Phil, if we can start this [PowerPoint presentation] up, I will identify some items here for the record. First, that I am holding up and I think we have about 40 copies of these left-[Mayor Rinker held up the Northwest Quadrant Brochure] this is a brochure that we published jointly with the other two entities and we had this mailed to every single one of our residents in the community; we delivered it to all of the media; this was back in the Fall 1997. And we tried to demonstrate- depict in this brochure and you see behind me and off to the right blow ups [large boards]; these were boards that we made back in 1997; the pictures are captured showing an aerial artist's rendering looking from the north and looking from the south and then on the inside, among other bullet points, trying to-at the top what we saw as the main benefits .of this is that the drawing which was the first site plan that you saw here tonight. [Note: Mr. Brett began loading the PowerPoint presentation.] Mayor Rinker said again, we went back to the 1997 PowerPoint; we tried to shorten it somewhat but we've also added a few items, really trying to reflect data that we have since collected because bear in mind, all of these were projections as pointed out in this particular PowerPoint, the Fall of 1997. It was also the culmination of a number of years of study that we had undertaken; first looking at the viability of the LaConte Golf Course which we had an option to purchase going back to 1992. It was a 5-year option so in 1997, we were about to turn into pumpkins. We also enlisted, if you recall, the Maxine Levin School of Urban Studies at C.S.U. We went through about a year; we vetted it through Citizen's Advisory and a number of our other boards and commissions to come up with a number of options playing out models for economic development with the goal of keeping the Village a Village, keeping services high but