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8 references over and over and over again about revitalizing Main Street and bringing life to Main Street and creating a fresh new look. • The other point that Mr. McDonough made was with respect to this particular photograph is that a building can be a buffer. We often associate trees with a buffer, but a building can be a buffer as well, and that's what that building achieves here. • The active land use is the parking lot, which is separated from the residential use by the building, by the mass that's there now. • The building takes on more of a passive approach in terms of generation of noise, generation of lights, generation of odors. This is a zone that can allow multiple uses here, including bars, restaurants, and office buildings. • This site could be completely redeveloped with the building closer to the street and the service court taken to the back where they have the trash and the loading. • Again, we see this form of development as it exists now and working with the land as it is now being a better zoning alternative, better integration with the neighborhood than what could be under a zone-conforming plan. • Again, a bar could go here, as well a 35-foot-high business school or vocational school, retail stores, or a restaurant. As a conditional use, this could be repurposed as a microbrewery, fast-food restaurants, and private clubs are permitted in this zone as well. • Mr. McDonough shows Page 5 of the Exhibit which is a view frame number five, looking more towards the south down Main Street, and they did this to give a sense of the way the terrain drops down. • Looking at the building being the buffer from the active land use and the separation from the activity on Main Street, this being a commercial corridor, the positive transformation that is seen, the sheer mass of the building that is across the street, and how they're creating a building that is not going to be dwarfed by that which is around it on Main Street. • On Page 6 of the Exhibit is a view frame number six, which takes us back to those residential properties and looks at the subject, which is this parking lot that can be seen in the center of the photograph. • The building is in the middle as well. Mr. McDonough has spoken about some vegetation that's in place now on the neighboring properties. This photo on Page 6 was taken on a February day during the winter when the leaves are

middle as well. Mr. McDonough has spoken about some vegetation that's in place now on the neighboring properties. This photo on Page 6 was taken on a February day during the winter when the leaves are all down, so what is show on the photo is perhaps a worst-case scenario. • Trees do not fall down in the winter, the leaves do, but they do provide an obscuring element. They may not completely screen or camouflage, but they do provide some obscuring of views, and that is a planning benefit. When the leaves come back, we do get some full screening effect as well. • Frame number 7, looking to the east to our skyline, which in no way is this building going to block views of the skyline from the lower level. This photo on Page 7 is taken from 100 feet up in the air. There are no buildings on the Llewellyn side that have windows up this high, so no blocking of scenic views of the beautiful skyline or any of the landforms that you see beyond the subject site. • There are larger buildings right across the street, which to the extent we're talking about scenic views, they would be blocking those views as well, so the building is not rising up any higher than those buildings that are immediately across the street. • Lastly, frame number eight is an aerial view directly over the building and parking lot. This is what is seen from the photo back in 1979. • It hasn't changed with the parking in the front and the building set back in the back.