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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Public Hearing on Ordinance 2021-14 Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Page 4 Just briefly, we will take a look at a few more. Again, front yards there are less than half the size than the ones that we have. Same thing here. Again, not that we are striving to mimic anyone in particular, but these are the kinds of folks that are competing for our companies. They are soliciting our companies to move when they need to. In fact, we have already lost one or two to other areas of Northeast Ohio because we simply couldn't accommodate them. Again, just another brief look at the folks we are competing with. Again, we are not looking to mimic thus, but parking is right next to the street and the building is as close as possible while accommodating parking. Much higher and better use of property than oftentimes we see here on Beta. I won't bore you with these, but these are more of the same. These are types of folks we are competing with daily. One of the things I wanted to mention too again, the best companies are the ones we already have; however, folks in my position across the County and across the region get inquiries probably weekly from brokers and development partners such as Team NEO, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, that are looking for a company to relocate. Because we really don't have much available real estate, we are really not in the game most times. In fact, if you look at the available properties listing on our website, you will see the largest space we have available is around 9,000 feet right now. Not only are we not in the game, we are not in the same ballpark many times. So, a solution that we are proposing is a zoning overlay dropped on top of the Beta District. One of the things that we considered when we tackled this problem; we had a great deal of discussion with the Mayor's office and Law Department; was can we just write a new zoning classification specific to Beta? The more we studied that, the more it became apparent that's too difficult to achieve simply because we do have those five existing zoning classifications on the books. It just became too confusing and too cumbersome to navigate the two of them. What we are proposing to do is drop an overlay district on top of those existing five. The land you see here in question is roughly 169 acres. It's really centered on Beta. We are not looking to spread this out to SOM up to Highland. We are not looking to grow this. We want to essentially turn the growth in on ourselves allowing folks to grow up and out if they need to in place. What an overlay achieves is flexibility for property owners, flexibility for companies. It doesn't force anyone to do anything. Any of these property owners you see are currently conforming to the law. They don't have to change a thing if they don't want to. But if a company is bursting at the seams and needs to build closer to the sidewalk to accommodate that growth, an overlay might give them that option. Again, taking a more specific look at the property in question, it's everything you see in dark black. It's essentially the five districts that we just saw. Again, 271 would be the boundary of this district to the west. The back side of Mayfran International, the back side of Mars Electric and Progressive Discovery and Marcum, formerly Skoda Minotti right here, would be the northern boundary. The southern boundary would be Wilson Mills. The eastern boundary is essentially the National Testing Building, that's that small building where Men's Hair is located. Jefferson Park right here.