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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Public Hearing on Ordinance 2021-14 Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Page 2 o COMMENTS BY LAW DIRECTOR DIANE A. CALTA Ms. Calta stated, thank you. I just wanted to wanted to let the public know what will go forward today. This legislation will be on for Third Read at the Regular Council meeting tonight. After that, it will be placed on the ballot for the Primary Election in May for consideration. Just to let you know that there is still another step. Council President Schutt stated, thank you Ms. Calta. The next item on this agenda is a presentation by John Marquart, Economic Development Manager. John? o PRESENTATION BY JOHN MARQUART ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Thank you, Council President. Thank you, Ms. Calta. Thank you also to Ms. Wolgamuth and Mrs. Betsa for the mechanics in putting this meeting together this evening. It is much appreciated. Before I forget, most importantly, thanks to everyone in attendance. I really appreciate your engagement tonight. We are here to discuss the proposed Beta Core Commercial District zoning overlay which I think will be a very important initiative as we go forward to preserve and strengthen our commercial tax base in the Village. As with any Public Meeting or any Council Meeting, we will have time for questions at the Open Portion after this presentation. Just to orient everyone, here is a quick snapshot of Beta Drive north and to our right over here. I- 271 is over here. This is Wilson Mills. This is SOM right there. As you can see, with the exception of Progressive Insurance, this is our commercial bread and butter to the Village. Nine of our 10 largest taxpayers have operations along Beta Drive, Progressive being one of them. The only one that does not appear is Mayfield City School District. The heartbeat of our tax base resides on Beta Drive. As you can see, again, this is the west side of the street, east side of the street, Beta Drive is actually fully built out with one small exception. You will see the woods here. You are probably familiar with that. They are between Preformed Line Products and Tuff Shed. That land is actually owned by Preformed Line Products and not available for development. They are sort of banking it for future needs, future growth. Other than that little strip of land, Beta Drive is really built out. It's constrained as is. There's no room for anyone to grow which is definitely something we want to encourage. We have a philosophy here that the best companies you could have are the ones that you already have. We want to nurture the companies that we already have and provide room for them to grow. We want to keep as many as possible as we continue to grow. Another thing to consider, when we looked at the existing zoning for Beta Drive, there are five zoning classifications throughout the district currently. Mechanically, it doesn't work very well for building expansions or lot consolidations. It becomes very confusing and very difficult to achieve any significant redevelopment.