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? there are primary uses and secondary uses and the prunary use is office. The commission should listen to the presentation of the developer aud look back on the master plan and consider what was done during the two year planuiug process and question if anything has changed so that the master plan should be changed on this particular parcel. Mr. Poffenberger spoke again stating that he agreed with Mr. Manving, that this request should be postponed so they come back with a suitable plan. This proposal appears to be an army barracks and they are getting a positive reaction, let them come back and convince the commission so that it can be rezoned at a later date. Mayor Boyle stated that in the master plan, it was decided that this should be zoned for office space, another potential zoning was for Mixed Use "D" which could have multi-family or office space. He believed that if the commission had thought that the two classifications were interchangeable, the parcel would have been recommended for zoning as Mixed Use `D", but plauning commission and cou.ncil decided that they wanted the emphasis on office space and use Mixed Use "D" as a fall back so there was still a potential for office space. He stated that Mr. Corsi had stated that they, Biskind Development, had determined that multi- family was a better use, however, the plauning commission had determined that office space was a better use. Now the city is being asked to change this because somebody else who owns the land and believes there is a market for this, and that the commission was wrong. He believed that the coinmission was right, the zoning is proper. They stated that while they were marketing it for multi- family, the potential developers wanted the zoning to be correct. He noted that they were marketing it for multi-family, not for office space. He questioned what would have happened had they marketed it for office space. Regardless of all the numbers and percentage of occupancy, this city made a determination, based on a lot of date, that this parcel was proper for office space. He knows that Mr. Coyne does not want to discuss office space, however, he must say that there is a market for office space, and there are proposals for it. If they are.only going to market the property for multi family, and not for office space, and they are not going to admit whether or not there have been offers for that, then he must think that the zoning is probably correct, and what is being brought to them is probably is what is the quickest sell. Mr. Corsi responded that this property had been heavily marketed for office space since 1988 when it was first rezoned for office through local brokers and through out of state mailings. They have worked with the whole real estate community of Cleveland, every broker is aware of this, there are incentives to bring prospective clients to them. This property has been marketed for many years and for many years it has proved fnutless. Mayor Boyle questioned if this is to say that they have not had adeal presented to them, that they have not turned down potential sales. He acknowledged that Mr.Coyne might not want him to answer this. Mr. Coyne stated that they had had one offer for a flex office which is the same as the Sears office on Brookpark Road in Brook Park. This might not have met the code since it has a lot of warehousing with a retail sales center for repairing equipment, and it would only have used a couple of acres on this huge property. They could not get a curb cut off Brookpark Road for one user. They have never had an office developer come in with a plan to develop the property for office which would afford what it would cost for a ciub cut, the cost of which is several hundred thousand dollars. This is not just a case of completing the paper work. Getting an office user to buy three or four acres will not happen because of the cost of accessing the parceL Mr. Coyne maintained that they have never had an offer from anyone to purchase the whole parcel, they have only had an offer for a few acres, but he cannot say exactly how many. Mr. Corsi stated that they had never had a bona fide offer, in writing, from anyone for that property for office space. Mayor Boyle stated that they would only get an offer in writmg only after they had given them the price, but if they had raised the price per acre on office space, they will not get an offer in writing. If he came to them, and they did not want to sell it for that and they offered to sell it for three and a quarter per acre and they were offering it for one seventy five earlier, no one will put it in writing. Mayor Boyle stated that they had marketed it for multi family. Mr. Coyne stated that it had been offered for o$'ice for the last several years, now they want to develop the property and this seems to be the altemative. He noted that they have the alternative because maybe the conditions are not