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Special Council Minutes 5/9/OS Page 6 _ Goldberg was projecting a way to kind of develop that in conjunction with all of its other structures that had been proposed. Mayor Rinker said: There's the "Ben Hogan" bridge. In the background, in this artist's rendering- this is looking on a southwest axis-that actually is how we had envisioned, conceptualized the Goldberg property would have been developed. Again, looking at today what is this Wetland. This water area is now a swimming pool for a point of reference. SLIDE: Key Factors Directed the Decision-making Process (with picture) Mayor Rinker said these are the 2 boards that we have up on the side again to show kind of the relationshil)---more of a 3-dimensional relationship between the commercial development and the recreational. This is looking, actually from the north to the south. This would be Highland Road. You can see to the distance those are houses. This is S.O.M. Center Road leading up? to the foreground. Anyone who used to golf at Parkview may recall losing golf balls near the 10? green or tee, I think, there in that area. This was the 3-dimensional vision for Progressive's campus. We thought this would be a recreational facility, indoor tennis courts; more ball fields. This is the kind of "Shaker Lakes" we envisioned a kind of loop trail around that area. In the background, that is the Goldberg property all the way up into this area. If you notice, the level of development was pretty high against Highland Road to some extent. As Rose indicated tonight, with the single user, rather than having the subdivision, it is almost like a cluster effect that Progressive is able to achieve. If you look at kind of this open area in 1997, this is approximately the focal point for Progressive's projected southern campus. SLIDE: List of Key Factors Mayor Rinker said we tried to lay the foundation back in 1997-and real briefly, I touched upon it earlier-we knew that we had to keep the Layercake Zoning (we had a rendering of it earlier) and I would point out that when we prepared this back in 1997, PowerPoint was kind of state-of-the art and we had enlisted the services of Bill Marquardt who really put together what we saw as a very effective visual way to demonstrate not only the physical plant that we were trying to achieve but also the underlying logic from a zoning and planning standpoint. We had fought unsuccessfully--in 3 different court battles over the course of almost 25 years trying to rezone from 1960 zoning, the Layercake Zoning that we will talk about momentarily. But once we recognized that we were beating our heads against the proverbial wall, is when we began the golf course study. We looked at overall financial impact models when we worked with C.S.U. and we looked for a way that the Village could be a main player because we had no ownership of any of the property in the Northwest Quadrant at that time. SLIDE: Study PNOCess Dates Back 4 Years (showing Artist's Renderang) Mayor Rinker said again going back 4 years. The Golf Course analysis. The Economic Fiscal Impact we did with C.S.U. and we vetted through different advisory groups and our boards. SLIDE: Study Process Dates Back 4 g'eaYS (showing Timetable) Mayor Rinker said and you see the timetable roughly in the Spring of 1997, the first rendering we did for this concept plan was I thulk in September and then we fine tuned it for the public meeting we held in October. -