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140 <br /> we would welcome a high density development in our neighborhood, we <br /> would take that away from your neighborhood if that were to occur in <br /> your neighborhood if you will help us fight against a garbage dump in <br /> our backyard. " <br /> Sue Kay stated she was an absentee property owner in the <br /> Calvander area and asked that her neighbors requests and concerns be <br /> considered for more public hearings on the plan for the Calvander <br /> area. <br /> Joicey Hurth, Calvander resident made the following statement: <br /> "I too, want to, for the record, add my voice to those in the <br /> Calvander area opposed to an industrial park and I too want to <br /> request that further hearings on this matter be held since I was not <br /> privy to or informed of any previous planning activity. I also just <br /> want to mention that in the high population density planned and <br /> accompanying industrial plan, the impact on schools has not been <br /> mentioned. The schools are already using trailers. I think that <br /> such future planning bringing more traffic and higher density <br /> population is not well advised for this area. " <br /> Robert Lagemann stated that he did not like the plans for the <br /> Calvander area. He noted there are some states which are now banning <br /> landfills and he continued that landfills do pollute and there is no <br /> way to prevent it once it hits the ground. He stated that there are <br /> such things as "liners" but indicated these last approximately twenty <br /> years. <br /> John Stewart stated that he lived outside the "node" but in the <br /> Joint Planning Area and presented the following statement: <br /> "What is Joint Planning? I trust my County Commissioners to do <br /> this. This goes against my democratic rights which I have as an <br /> American. I have a right to vote for who represents me and we need <br /> to not forget about that. Some people here have endorsed the Joint <br /> Planning; I do not in the least. Just think back three or four <br /> generations. Folks from England came over here and tried to tell us <br /> how to live our life and what we could do with our land. At that <br /> time, we took some tea and dumped it in the harbor at Boston. If I <br /> go to Bill Thorpe or Jim and tell them I don't like what's going on, <br /> they may say 'you don't vote for me' . If I go to Don Willhoit, I say <br /> I don't like it, he says I 'm going to do it anyway, then I am going <br /> to talk to my friends and the next time he is not going to be <br /> Chairman of the County Board. Let's leave it in the County's hands. <br /> Let them make the decision. " <br /> Robert Markunas, resident of Hideaway Estates just north of the <br /> Blackwood Station node and south of the New Hope Church Road/I-40 <br /> Interchange noted he was pleased to see the revised Land Use Plan and <br /> hoped some of it was due to the input from citizens at some of the <br /> more informal meetings. He expressed some of the objections from <br /> residents of Hideaway Estates to the New Hope node as follows and did <br /> present a petition. <br /> "The New Hope node as originally configured on the Joint <br /> Planning Area Map nearly bisects Hideaway Estates. The idea of a <br /> subdivision with one acre land use per residential occupancy being <br /> included in an industrial node and being called Hideaway seems to sum <br />