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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Public Hearing on Ordinance 2021-14 Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Page 10 Eileen Callahan 6592 SOM Court My husband and I moved here in July. We are very thrilled to be living here. We do look out at the Jefferson Building and consider it an eyesore but we took that into consideration when we bought there. We acknowledged it at that time. We use the Greenway extensively. I am here to tell you that the litter on the Greenway behind where we live makes me sad and upset and angry. I can't see how adding additional businesses to that complex would not make that matter worse. I don't think people are intentionally letting the litter happen with all those businesses back there. I think it's just the dumpster sometimes doesn't get closed, but if you look in the stream, if you look along the grass, there's litter everywhere. And it's big litter. The other question is, it sounds to me like we already have high occupancy. We've had one or two people move out or leaving that we can't build that occupancy back up in just one or two places? It seems like a very desirable location for the right kind of customer. So I am a little bit not understanding that or maybe I just didn't hear it right. The third one is living on SOM Court, the traffic. We have issues with speeders on SOM Court. It's like a highway. We get a reasonable amount of traffic at 35 miles per hour. I almost had my life taken on it a couple of weeks ago. So, I can't be excited about more cars on SOM Court. Whatever that additional number of employees will be that would come every day to make their living there, I think that it would be detrimental to our neighborhood. It's all about the neighborhood. Thank you very much. Council President Schutt asked, Mr. Marquart? Mr. Marquart stated, thank you. I will do my best to answer those questions. First off, yes, we do have very high occupancy along Beta and that's sort of the problem. We have nowhere for folks to grow. With regard to the two folks that I mentioned, one moved to Solon and one moved to Warrensville Heights. Their space has already been back-filled, so we don't have those available spaces to market. Again, the largest vacancy we have right now is roughly 9,000 square feet. Modern industrial users are anywhere from 100,000-500,000 square feet. We are simply not in the drawing for any of those. That's not to say I want to seek out an Amazon warehouse here. I don't. But if you have been paying attention in the paper lately you may have seen an article, for example in either today or yesterday's Plain Dealer, two very good, very large employers selected some sites in Ohio for new manufacturing facilities. They are both 150 miles or greater from here simply because they have the available land. We don't. Again, we are not blinging out 100 acres available any time soon. I don't think any of us want to see that. But again, we are just not competitive when it comes to the modern light industrial user. We can't compete.