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Site Data (for the entire GB District) Industrial Vacant Land / Light Industrial/Office / Office-Warehouse / Distribution Center / Radio Tower GB: Gateway Business / PUD overlays on properties at the southwest end ofGB Approximately 115 acres (Appx, 5,009,400 square feet) N/A Hillside slopes down to the southwest comer of Round Lake and also toward Interstate 35W on the west; the remaining property has gentle slopes, some low wet land, and the remainder is relative} flat land. . Overview The Gateway Business District is a commercial/light-industrial district in the northwest portion of the City which was established to create a higher standard of development for the area. Prior to creation of the Gateway Business District, the area generally located to the north ofI-694, east of 1-35W, south of Highway 96, and south and west of Round Lake; was occupied by several uses which the City determined were undesirable. A task force was formed to review the potential for controlling development and redevelopment in this region. The recommendations of the task force were to be proactive in the redevelopment of this area by rezoning, and establishment of a redevelopment district to assist with financing infrastructure and development improvements. While the primary focus of the task force was the area occupied by Chesapeake, Celestica (formerly Manufacturers' Services) and the Welsh developments, the GB standards were created for the redevelopment of the entire area. During the task force discussions, one of the commonly repeated themes was to allow a mix of uses including: 25% office (buildings of 100% office), 25% office/showroom (30/70), 25% office/warehouse (10/90), 25% Miscellaneous (including retail and housing). . The current Gateway Business District regulations do allow for limited multiple-family residential, day care facilities, office/warehouse, and office showroom uses, however they place restrictions on office or retail developments. Office uses are not supposed to occupy less than 25% nor more than 50% of a project's total floor area. Retail or service businesses are not allowed to occupy more than 15% of the total floor area of the building in which they are located. The effect of this is that the district does not have the mixture of uses that was recommended by the task force, and the regulations allow basically nothing other than office/warehouse or office/showroom uses. Due to the lack of a mixture of uses, workers in the Gateway Business district are forced to go outside of the district for any sort of a retail use. The Indykiewicz property (the northernmost property within the Gateway Business District) was divided by the creation of a new access from Round Lake Road to Highway 96, While the new access eliminated some traffic flow problems, namely distance from the 35W ramp, it created a \\Earth\PJanning\Planning Cases\2005\05~04 Gatew-ay Business Dist Zoning Amendment (PENDlNG)\02-02-05 PC RepOTt Gateway Business Zoning Amendment 05-04.doc Page 2 of4 .