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Regular Council Meeting 6-17-02 Page 7 improved, built upon, the roadway then would be extended as needed until such time as it came back to S.O.M. Center and tied into with North Commons Blvd. that extends, ultimately, to White Road to the north. Council President Buckholtz said there are more issues here. We need to talk about this Development Agreement in terms of people have to be aware that there is an outline of a Development Agreement. It is not a finished document but whatever we would do with the principles of Goldberg properties involve some good faith measures and some down-the-line give and take. I would like to first address that the cul-de-sac, for example, when you say that's a temporary issue (and I would like to piggyback onto that), there was a lot of talk about where the entrance to this proposed development will be. That was not any kind of a variance; they have the right to put the entrance in where they have it--which is at Metro Park. (He asked Mr. Samac if that is correct.) Mr. Samac said essentially that is correct. The issue of the case was before the Planning and Zoning Commission. Council President Buckholtz said (for the record) was one of the reasons that we postponed this entire process was that we have been investigating other options so that we can provide, offer or work out as a cooperative measure with the Goldberg Property people putting in a road across from Hickory Hill instead of Metro Park. In the interest of time, expedience, and at the same time, thoughtful planning, we didn't want to rush any of those plans. So what we are basically looking at Mr. Bell said there axe some things we can say with some certainty and some things that we can't know until we plan it further. We know that to take the 4-story, 111,000 square foot building and make it a 3-story building, some changes take place with respect to the footprint. Essentially what happens if the footprint grows from (if I recall).. . Tonight, I have with me Lynn Egensperger from Oxbow Engineering (so if there are any issues about traffic, cars or things of that nature, she is here to help us) and Jim Heller from KA Architects who can help us with things related to the building and site plan itself. If I go away from the facts, they will straighten me out, I am sure. What wedid was we took the building and we weren't able to tell you exactly how the building will be oriented; we know what the code allows us to do. We don't think we will ever have to do what the code is whether this plan in some form or shape should go forward with a few conditions, a few temporary situations and a few conditions predicated on the fact that we have a Development Agreement that both outlines certain things that Goldberg is allowed to do and certain things that it is not allowed to do. The new part of that would be some type of exploratory agreement which means as we investigate these several other options, Goldberg is cooperative to the fact that at any point we could, upon mutual agreement amend these plans. Let me go right to the main issue which is the height variance and allow Mr. Bell to talk about that in terms of what we are talking about what is a 4 story building but you made some fairly hefty concessions on your setbacks versus a? story building. If we limited you to the 3-story building, would that and how would that change the footprint of the building. allows which would be to build a 3-story building 100' off the property. What we did was we tried to anticipate some of the design issues and in bringing it down to a 3-story building, it has come basically 50-60' closer--both because the footprint grew and because some other concerns related to the size of the footprint required us to have more space on the north side of the building. 7