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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Public Hearing on Ordinance 2021-14 Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Page 7 traffic flow. That's an added benefit to that. But really the biggest benefit is this guy. Modern industrial users are much much larger than what we typically have out there in terms of real estate. This would help us compete against places like Twinsburg, Streetsboro, Mentor, Solon. Another option perhaps we could go as big as 200,000. Again, this is all sort of influx depending on what market demands are, but this would help us accomplish things that we can't now and accommodate folks that we can't now. The last thing we would like to look at, I mentioned this a moment ago, is existing precedent. We talked about having smaller setbacks. We actually took at look at 6449 Wilson Mills and 6501 Wilson Mills as sort of our baseline. Both of them have really attractive front yards along Beta but they are not overly deep. We sort of set this point as the baseline. It just so happens these two are both at 35 feet, so that's pretty close to the consistent setback that we would be seeing all up and down the street. This is looking north. Again, smaller front yards do exist, they are just not the norm right now. We would like to follow these two as the benchmark. Last thing is building height. Again, most of our zoning permits up to 35 feet only. Some of it only a one-story building. The precedent does exist to go higher although we are not looking to build skyscrapers here any time soon. The precedent does exist with four stories or roughly 50 feet. This is the Hilton Garden Inn and Holiday Inn which is very very close to that. The clocktower here at Mt. Vernon is very similar. Again, not looking to replicate downtown Cleveland or University Circle. That's not what we want to be, but we do want to provide some flexibility for folks to grow and some flexibility to attract new businesses. So, that's the end of the presentation. As Council President Schutt and Ms. Calta indicated, we will open the floor for discussions and comments. Thank you. Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Mr. Marquart. Mr. Marquart stated, thank you. o OPEN PORTION Council President Schutt stated, now it's the Open Portion of our meeting. I will open the floor. You have a 5 -minute limit. For those who wish to speak, please come up to the podium and state your name and address for the record.