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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Public Hearing on Ordinance 2021-14 Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Page 3 Just quickly, we will run through these. This is Local Business, the first of five districts. That appears right here along Wilson Mills. This is actually currently D.O. Summers and a car wash. Again, the challenge with having five zoning districts in one relatively small area creates a little confusion for property owners. It creates difficulty for our Building Department to enforce things. And again, if anyone would attempt to develop anything across an existing property line, it becomes very difficult because each of these districts has their own unique requirements, regulations, restrictions, things of that nature. The second classification we have is Small Office. It's shown here in pink. It's essentially the Wilson Mills frontage of this district. You can see if you are familiar with the Jefferson Park Office Complex, this is it right here, so it really stretches back more into the district. This is actually our most restrictive commercial district as is. The next classification is Motorist Service shown up here. This is currently the Holiday Inn, Alfredo's and the CEI substation. Next up is Office Laboratory. Currently this is the Beta Tech Park right here, Mount Vernon and a little bit of Ken's Auto and a little bit of the Panzica property as well as the Mount Vernon Office Complex here. It is important to know that everything we talk about here tonight deals strictly with commercial zoning, so anything along Beta or along this district is currently zoned Single -Family which is this narrow strip right here and Mount Vernon and this land in front of the Georgian Medical Arts Building, are off the table. They are not up for discussion. We are not proposing any changes there. They will remain Single -Family. The last district we have is Production Distribution. It's pretty much the most flexible classification. It's really the lion's share of the district. It's everything you haven't seen thus far. So, why are we here? What's at risk? Again, as I mentioned, the best companies are the ones we already have. We encourage their growth. We also want to attract new companies where we can. The challenge is, and I am going to back up just briefly, the Beta Overview, what you see when you take this bird's eye look at Beta, what you often see are unnecessarily large buildings. You can see, there's a setback of about 150 feet. It's not a very efficient use of the property. So what we run into again are companies that are essentially bursting at the seams with nowhere to grow. We are also competing against areas like you will see in the next few slides. These are other commercial districts here in Northeast Ohio which we are competing with. They are less restrictive. They have less confusing regulations. Oftentimes they are more densely developed which means property owners and companies there essentially have more opportunity to grow. They get more bang for their buck from each acre. It's essentially a more efficient use of the property.