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City of Centerville Council Meeting Minutes March 11, 2020 trying to be transparent. Mr. Beert asked if you do not go with the apartment complex would you consider putting in assistant living or senior housing and also if you do build one can it be built to add another level. Administrator Statz stated they did have some conversation with Trident about a 55 plus complex not necessarily a memory care facility. He stated the reason why they chose Trident is because they did a very detailed study of the market. Their study came back that it would be best as an open ended apartments. Ms. Wendy Brilowski, 7124 Main Street, stated that she is concerned about using TIF money. When she calculated the $34,000 a year in fees over the 16 years it was almost breaks even. She stated that the developer should be paying for this. Ms. Brilowski stated seemed as if the City is hiding things from the residents as to this development. She did state that she was receiving enough information. She stated that in the original plan for the downtown area there were to be low to medium density homes not an apartment building. She mentioned that she had heard that there were a couple of businesses that were coming into the downtown stated that she wants development to come into the downtown area but something smaller would fit better than a 3 story apartment building. Ms. Brilowski also stated that start smaller instead of doing the whole area at once. She stated she sent a letter and now feels that she has learned a lot more as to what is going on in the downtown area. Mayor Paar stated Beard Group was a grand plan and everyone who lives in the downtown area was very contentious that you were going to lose your homes. That was a grand plan with a lot of medium density townhomes which now has gone by the wayside. He stated the townhome market is slowly coming back but people are not buying townhomes new as they were 20 years ago. He stated it is making a comeback. He stated when the Beard Group plan fell though, council did scale it back. He stated that the City did have some people interest in the lots north of Main Stom for parking and the home owners around there did not want to sell an As far as turning someone away, he remembered a slaughter house that they did turn away and others that came into town want to build but it entailed buying property that people already owned. Mayor Paar stated that they have scaled it down compared to what the Beard Group had planned. Ms. Stacy Brichner, 1580 Sorel Street, asked if anyone lives adjacent to Block 7. Mayor Paar stated he lives/lived, depending on what happens, off of Meadow Lane within walking distance. She stated at the last meeting that area got hit with a huge assessment for the water hook-up and street project. She is 100% against the apartment building going on Block 7. She explained driving on Sorel Street making a left turn during school hours/rush hour is a nightmare. She feesl if an apartment building goes in the traffic would increase considerably. She thanked Council Member Koski for getting the interest rate drop for the water hook-up and street project for the people who have to take out a loan that was huge for everyone. Mayor Paar again stated if you do not want to speak at the meeting but would like your opinion known to write your name and address and comment and give it to Administrator Mark and he will add them to the minutes because we want your voices to be heard. Page 6 of 18