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Special Council Minutes 5/9/OS Page 5 the overhead for those services as controlled as possible and looking for a way to look at the 300- plus acres in the Northwest Quadrant which, as you see in these pictures, it is the area bounded by I-271 on the west, White Road on the north, S.O.M. on the east and Highland Road on the south. With the goal of controlling what was largely undeveloped at that time, what would be the future development and the plan that we came up with was an effort to maximize high end commercial development, recreational, both active and passive recreational spaces and do it in a way that is compatible with residential properties around the perimeter and overall provide for Mayfield Village a long-term, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing way to develop. And in the process we secured a substantial revenue for our school system, as an investment in our schools, as an asset and I think from every measure, what we will go through here-and it has taken a lot longer than it was supposed to--will show, really I think, the validity of this overall concept and we are really at a culmination point right now. Mayor Rinker said the first thing we thought we would do-we skipped a little bit ahead from where we were originally in 1997-what we had envisioned and culminated in about midway through the slide presentation back then was a 5-year build-out. We anticipated in the year of 2002 there would be parallel courses of development on Progressive, on Goldberg and then Village properties in between. Again, to orient everyone, [Mayor Rinker pointed to the areas]; this is 271; White Road; S.O.M. Center Road and then Highland Road. You can see, if anyone is familiar today, we have a different footprint. The road is not quite the same as we had projected. The entranceway, too, was done a little differently. Some of the components Progressive was looking at was as many as 6 buildings back then and I think actually less square footage with what they have ended up with. At the entranceway we had contemplated a recreational facility that would be jointly used by Progressive and Mayfield Village residents. In the course of our discussion subsequent to 1997, Progressive people told us that they would rather put a Fitness Center inside their facility for the benefit of their employees but part of our agreement was to make it as accessible to our residents as it is to Progressive employees. Conversely, then we agreed that rather than an indoor pool; (figuring we had an indoor pool at the High School) was to build an outdoor swim facility (which is roughly in this area) to the east of the Wetland--what is now a Wetland Preserve. As for the Wetland preserve, we had envisioned something like Shaker Lakes has with twin lakes and we had a real pretty "Ben Hogan" bridge from Augusta National-kind of spanning those 2 bits of water. One of our artist's renderings depicted that. If you will also notice for the most part from S.O.M., all the way through and looping around the Goldberg property and coming out again opposite Hickory Hill, we had a full 4-lane boulevard with a median. That was again, this was all conceptual. We tried to be very careful on what we would actually deliver but we wanted to show the components which are high end commercial on land zoned for commercial, high end Recreational-notice we were projecting 4 ball fields; we actually just completed 3 and other passive use of green space as a buffer to separate the commercial areas, to separate the residential and really along perimeter, kind of bracket the entire commercial development pushing the development more toward I-271 in keeping the residential areas and the Metroparks over here--buffered more. So that is what we were looking at. Again, you see here we had the S"'tenant we were expecting Goldberg would subdivide its property much like Beta where you have a residential subdivision; this would have been a commercial subdivision. They would have held onto the property and leased it out to various tenants. You can see for a point of reference, this is the Costanzo property that is on the table tonight. That is the barn-like structure. Back in 1997,