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office building from Bart Wolstein and are planniug to build two office building, 250,000 square feet.
<br />He wondered if maybe there is not a glut of office space in North Olmsted, maybe Duke is a better
<br />business entity, than Biskind Development since under Biskind they were loosing money, and five
<br />months after Duke bought it they are makiug money and building two more office buildings. So much
<br />for this theory about a glut of office build.ings. In Westlake, as Ms. Diver said, they are building more
<br />office buildings, apparently there is a market for office build.ings. He noted that they were talking about
<br />alternate uses for this land, but they can have an alternate use without changing the zoning of the Parcel
<br />"E" they can still build office, and do what Westlake did, right in the heart.of a residential area, they
<br />allowed office condominium parks to be built. These are parks of individual,. condominium type, one
<br />story office buildings which are very attractive, very well landscaped and buffered, and are all occupied
<br />aud making money. Why can't they do the same thing here? Mr. Breunan stated that, if Mr. Biskind
<br />cannot honor its agreement . to develop Parcel "E", it should revert back to residential use. Maybe there
<br />should be some kind•of legislation, giving a developer "x" amount of time to develop his property if it is
<br />rezoned, and if he cannot develop it in that period of time, then it will revert back to what it used to be.
<br />He thought that would stop speculators or developers from buying land with the intention of getting it
<br />rezoned so they can get a higher price for it and make a profit and that is exactly what is happening
<br />here. Mr. Corsi also stated that Mr. Biskirid had a grand. design in 1998, and during the grand design
<br />period, he hired, an expert who did a market study and told him it was crazy and he should not do it
<br />because it would not work. W. Biskind still went forward with it and that marketing study has held up.
<br />Mr. Biskind hired an expert to advise him, and he says not to do it, ancl he goes ahead anyhow; which,
<br />to him, is a bad business judgment. If Biskind cannot find a single office tenant for an office building on
<br />Parcel "E" that is too bad, it was his choice. In the business world, you live and die by the decision you
<br />make, and you cannot turn to the city or State to bail you out of your mistakes. The city of North
<br />Olmsted is not obligated to rezone Parcel "E" to another.use just because Biskind says it cannot develop
<br />this parcel as it is presently zoned; it is zoned office use at his request, because he said he could not
<br />develop it for a residential use. If they had known then about a reasonable use of land, they would have
<br />fought him, and he thought that they would have won in the courts. The man had a reasonable use of
<br />the land before it had it rezoned and they gave him a higher use when they rezoned it and now he wants
<br />to rezone it once again. He is not going to be building the Home Depot and develop the land, he is
<br />going to selling the land. It was more than generous to give him a reasonable use, and now the Master
<br />Plan says the land should never be rezoned unless it goes back to a lesser use. It can be said that the
<br />Master Plan is just a guide line, he does not agree, he was on the commission when they worked on the
<br />master plan-along with Mr. Tallon and Mrs. O'Rourke. They all know how hard they worked on it.
<br />They spent two years of their lives on that plan, sometimes late into the night, that is why they got the
<br />big bucks of zero dollars and took time away from their families, etc. When they got done with it, they
<br />reviewed it over and over again, going over every major parcel of land to see what the proper zoning
<br />should be. It said.not to .rezone the land unless it is to revert back to multiple dwelling units, it says
<br />Mixed Use, but if you really look at it, in parentheses, it says single family dwelling or multiple dwelling
<br />units. These are the altemative uses of this larid according to the Master Plan. The City Council voted
<br />on that plan and approved. The Master Plan is not just a guideline, it is whatever you make it, if they
<br />want to put teeth into, stick to it..Otherwise, two years of their lives were wasted along4ith $50,000 of
<br />the city's money that was paid to the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission. Either the city sticks to
<br />the Master Plan, or it becomes meaningless. If the members do not know what the Master Plan says, if
<br />they have a copy of it,_ and he is sure they do not, he has one. He was told that the disc is available from
<br />Tom Schultz (County Plauning). At this point Chairmau Tallon noted that. Mr. Skoulis had been
<br />speaking for over a half hour. Mr. Skoulis agreed to summarize and forget the other rebuttaL Why does
<br />the developer want rezoning? First, if we do not rezone this land for retail, business people will be
<br />moving out of town, we will be losing our tax revenue, etc. He did not believe that. The city is doing
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