1. Community
Presentation
Community Resources
August 11, 2010
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2. Purpose of Meeting
Present progress of Center for Business &
Education (CBE) development
Link to Visioning results
Communicate with community
Opportunity for questions, comments
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3. Agenda
Introduction to Community Resources
Center for Business & Education (CBE)
Public Processes
Current Status
Next Steps
Mixed Commerce Zoning Uses
Questions and Comments
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4. Intro to Community Resources
Mission: Attract, retain, and expand businesses in the
Yellow Springs & Miami Township region
Focus on commercial, educational, office, professional,
and manufacturing
Introduce members: Lisa Abel, Megan Bachman, David
Boyer, Mark Crockett, Matthew Derr, Michael Fishbein, Rick
Kristenson, Roi Qualls, Jerry Sutton, Kathryn Van der
Heiden, Karl Zalar, Judith Hempfling (ex officio), Sarah
Wildman (ex officio)
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5. Accomplishments
Surveys
Cost of living
Business retention
Hospitality study
Land & funding for CBE
Annexation & zoning for CBE
Retention of Antioch University Midwest
New website:
http://yscommunityresources.wordpress.com/
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6. Tie to Visioning Results
CR works on planned and intentional economic
development
Focus is to increase local tax base
CBE helps to increase potential business
properties
Plan to attract entities that provide living wage
employment
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7. CBE: Public Processes
Cooperative Economic Development
Agreement (CEDA) approval – for commercial
development, not housing or retail
Economic development revolving loan fund &
other grants
Annexation of CBE land to Village
Zoning of CBE – mixed commerce
Federal grant process & award
Village authority for infrastructure project
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8. CBE Funding
CF grant
5%
DDC grant
9%
Local grant
10%
Federal grant
EDRLF 60%
16%

9. CBE: Current Status
OH DoT Project protocol
Design Phase 1 completed
Design alternatives
Preliminary design of roads & utilities
Rough estimate of costs & timing
Design Phase 2 started
End result will be detailed engineering drawings for
construction bid package
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10. Phase 1 Design
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11. CBE: Next Steps & Timeline
Starting Phase 2 design
Detailed design plans for roads & utilities
Outcome: plans for construction
Completion: estimated end of 2010-early 2011
Construction phase: most of 2011
Filling the CBE
Selecting development partner now
More focused marketing in 2010-11
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12. Mixed Commerce Zoning
Prohibited Uses
(ref zoning chapter 1259)
Activities tending to create direct consumer traffic
Retail stores, banks, barber shop, grocery, hardware,
clothing, drug store, laundry services, gas station,
theatre, auto repair, bowling alley
Living spaces, permanent or temporary:
Houses, apartments, nursing homes, motels
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13. Prohibited Uses
Funeral parlors
Trucking facilities
Warehouses
Heavy manufacturing
Agriculture
Amusement parks & facilities
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14. Conditionally Permitted Uses
Limited warehousing or storage of items made
onsite
Day care centers primarily serving children of
employees working onsite
Wireless service facilities (ref chap 1280)
Wholesale businesses (ref 1260.04 b or d)
Retail only when accessory to primary use (e.g.,
AUM bookstore)
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15. Permitted Uses
Data processing, software development
Professionals & services
(attorneys, accountants, insurance, financial
advisors)
R & D, engineering, design
Light manufacturing
(printing, electronics, assembly, food processing)
Telemarketing
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16. Permitted Uses
Library
Municipal buildings
Fire, ambulance, and police stations
Educational & training institutions (but not K-
12 with playgrounds
Headquarters for various institutions
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17. Questions?
Comments?
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