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Dylan Drive in a northerly fashion and that is exactly the alignment that Dylan Drive was to take in the 2005 Portage Prairie PUD. The only exception we are making, in large part by consideration by Area Plan and Council is to make the access road not within the buffer that is specified in the LI district. We are going to landscape that. We are taking the LI district standard and elevating it as suggested by the Area Plan staff to provide an appropriate buffer between the residents to the east and what we are proposing on site. Another written commitment is no access to Mayflower Road. This is a departure from what was approved in 2005. Mayflower Road isn't wide enough and doesn't have the structural capacity to encourage truck-traffic on Mayflower Road. Another written commitment is no billboard on property. It would be permitted in an LI zone as presently written but we want to take it to a higher standard. Lastly, there was a suggestion that if there was any building proposed within three hundred(300) feet of Mayflower Road,that an enhanced landscape standard Type B or Type C be put into place. Those are the facts I want to bring to the surface. The goal of the Council is to put in the appropriate zoning on this particular piece of property given that it has no zoning in place because the zoning expired. We are seeking your support of the LI district standard with the enhanced landscape standards as specified. Jeff Smoke, 112 W. Jefferson Blvd., stated, I want to thank the Council for the suggestion of tabling the petition for three (3) weeks. This has allowed us more time to reach out and have discussions with the neighbors and hear their concerns in more depth. We heard concerns about traffic, both car and truck traffic. We also heard concerns about buffering and we tried to reach resolutions on both of those. We have met with the City Engineer's Office to take a deeper look at the traffic issues out there which I think are not symbolic of just this building but the overall area due to growth. We have been to two (2) town hall meetings. We also held our own at the German Township Library, I thought we both came to a common ground at the second one. There are still concerns, obviously, but we have tried to listen to what the neighbors are concerned about and have addressed the buffering, and the City Engineer is going to talk about the traffic solutions they have proposed. We are a South Bend based developer,we are community minded, we want to be good neighbors,we want to work in partnership with the neighbors and have a good long term relationship with the City. I've also heard some concerns about public transit and I definitely agree to look at public transit options to get workers out there. Erin Canarecci, Branch Manager of CTDI, stated, CTDI opened up in 1975 in a garage. The CEO, his father and brother, opened it in their garage. The address for our current location is 2740 Viridian Dr. CTDI is committed to South Bend as we have been in the area for over twenty-five (25) years. With the merger of AT&T and DirecTV, it has opened up a potential of one hundred and twenty-five (125)plus jobs if this happens to go through. The location we are looking at is a perfect spot for CTDI as FedEX and AT&T are within a couple mile radius. We have looked in other areas but nothing fits like this location for us. Committee Chair Davis asked, What makes it fit so well for you? Ms. Canarecci replied, It is right off the bypass and AT&T is about two (2) miles away, and we make drops to AT&T about three(3)times a day. 9