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City Council Minutes MARTIN ,CONTINUED.... Wastewater Treatment Plant August 3, 1982 Page 5 called for a major regional shopping center. which was then one of the largest in the country. Now without that,the planned road sizes, the place- ment of the roads, some;of the other utility projects which are planned, I just think it makes sense that we sit down together and look at these plans so we don't build roads which go nowhere to carry cars that aren't there, in terms of capacity. We are not going away, we are people of substance and integrity, we are going to be here to work with you because we are part of you, we own property and we consider ourselves to be a corporate citizen, if you will, and we have a great invested interest in this community. We probably have as much in- vested in this community as anyone in the community. We want to come out on our investment, and we want the community to do the same. We have been already. in the formative stages of alternative use planning. We have our research departments in Chicago working on pLa.nning alternative uses, ie, look at property without a regional shopping center, what can be done that makes sense. By no means does this mean all residential. ..this is not good for the community you need commercial development, and we are commer- cial developers. I+am not here to predict what the research will care, because it will be based on factual basis. We will engage the services of master planners of appropriate professional creden- tials who will work with us and the city staff to plan the property based on those recommendations and alterntive uses. . As far as the specific commitments, ie, the ex- pansion of the waste water treatment plant, it is my belief that this facility and the capacity that will be in this facility will be needed under any conceivable development scenario that you can come up with, therefore, if I were ranking the various utility projects, that would be at the top of the list. In my recommendation to the company, we should proceed immediately on, and continue working at a pace as we are doing now. We have not stopped the planning on the various projects, but we are reassessing which ones we need to do and which ones might be drastically changed as a result of the joint planning between the city and our planners.