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PRD Meeting 11-25-02 Page 21 Mrs. Cinco said they won't build. Otherwise, you are so restricted it's like a glorified single- family. That's what you'd end up with and that's not what the intent was. Dr. Parker said okay. And when we talked about the minimum project size, you know we talked 4 versus 5-when you look at a development like in Landerhaven where we saw it had 3+ units per acre. Any thought, Bernie, as to why it's 3 plus? Was it that there's only allowed for 4, but the builder decided that--maybe because they didn't want to squeeze them on, some units ended up with 3, let's say, per acre? I am just saying, I am trying to figure out how they came up with 3+ units per acre. That kind of comes to the heart of 4 versus 5 and where we break it. Maybe I just feel very restrictive about it, maybe I'm not looking for glorified single-family housing but I just.... Mr. Samac said I understand what you are saying. I think in that particular case, Landerhaven, Landerhaven Court, as I'd mentioned earlier the way that developed was originally, they were going to keep the golf course, part of the golf course, and develop condominiums throughout (something like an Aberdeen on a smaller scale.) The developer who owned that, Larry Davis, put what's Landerhaven Court right now, two model units up. And they were placed on that site and before they got into any other development phase they decided it wasn't going to be economically feasible to do that; the market wasn't there and this and that and they passed a rezoning to allow office park in there. Ultimately, they ended up in Court and well, got what you have there now which is a nice office development. That, where it placed the models, from that point south to Cedar Road, it just so happened that there was a little over 3 acres there (or whatever it was; 4 acres) and when that piece of property, and that residual piece of property hanging out there at the corner was too small to do any type of office development, a builder, Larry Blaustein bought it and designed the other buildings in there and even took the buildings that were built as models and re-sided them and that to sort of make them fit in with his design (because the two at the far northwest corner of that development are a little bit different than the others because they were the models.) And he chose to put in good size units. I think some of those units are like 3,500 square feet. They have full basements and by the design of the lot itself, the size of the buildings he wanted to put in there and the market that he was getting for them at the time, that's all he felt he could put in there for his development. I might add, the guy went belly up on it but the units did ultimately sell and those units are going upwards of $500,000 right now. But, that's what happened. Dr. Parker said yes, we could surmise on that. I guess we are just looking at what's the most, what's the best, the best development I've seen out there, which I liked that one the best and I look at how many do we have attached? What's the acreage density? Council President Buckholtz said was it 3.9 acres by the way? Dr. Parker said I am just trying to visualize in my own mind what I feel is going to be in the best interest of Mayfield Village as opposed to, I realize, hey they've got to do a building but there will come a time when it will be financially feasible for them to do it, or whether it's 15 years from now, I think the most important thing has nothing to do with whether what we do is economically feasible for developers. It has to do with what's going to be in the best interest in