Maguire/Thomas Partners Fifth & Grand, Ltd., Maguire/Thomas Partners Grand Place Tower, Ltd., Tax Matters Partner - Page 16

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          F.   Development Rights That MTP Obtained Under the OPA; Zoning             
               Change Made for the Library Square Tract by Ordinance No.              
               159802                                                                 
               As stated at paragraph D-1 above, MTP obtained certain                 
          development rights and/or land in exchange for MTP’s specified              
          payments to CRA.  Ordinance No. 159802 and the MTP Designated               
          Building Site covering the Library Square tract represented an              
          important part of those development rights that MTP obtained.               
               Without Ordinance No. 159802 and treatment of the Library              
          Square tract as a Designated Building Site, CRA by variation                
          alone could not have authorized MTP to build the Library Tower              
          and Grand Place Tower buildings.  The effect of Ordinance 159802            
          and treatment of the Library Square Tract as a Designated                   
          Building Site was to make a zoning change which (1) treated the             
          five Library Square parcels as one building site in order to                
          comply with the City Charter’s 13-to-1 building density                     
          limitation; and (2) provided a mechanism (i.e., the covenants               
          running with the land) whereby the unused building density of               
          the Central Library and Garage Plaza parcels could be used for              
          the Library Tower and Grand Place Tower parcels.                            
               The OPA and the Cooperation Agreement (1) included the                 
          City’s agreement to the zoning change for the Library Square                
          tract, and (2) provided for the sale by the City and CRA to MTP             
          of the unused building density of the Central Library parcel.               








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