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<br /> Craig Benedict:They would be able to.The design for the system to bring it south of the interstate would be enough
<br /> to accommodate all the growth in that area.
<br /> Lydia Wegman: Okay, let me turn to the public.
<br /> Chris Cole (member of the public): My name's Chris Cole, I live right about there. A couple of things; First of all, I
<br /> wanted to make you aware that according to the town officials there is no plan to extend water and sewer south of
<br /> 40 at this point. Of course, everything's subject to change but there is no plan in place. Second, if you could back
<br /> up one slide... Employment, and this is in your packets, includes manufacturing. I just wanted to point out a couple
<br /> of items that would be considered permissible, if this were zoned for manufacturing. Rendering a new by-product
<br /> processing, poultry processing, seafood product, preparation and packaging, leather and hide tanning and finishing,
<br /> asphalt paving mixture and block manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, explosives manufacturing, fertilizer
<br /> manufacturing. That's all the kinds of things that would be permissible changing this zoning to employment.And, a
<br /> lot of stuff that would be really good but, as a person who lives here I'm worried about my water and I'm worried
<br /> about my air.Thank you.
<br /> Franklin Garland - Garland Truffles (member of the public): I pretty much expressed my opinion last week when I
<br /> was here. I have a worse problem than him. I received a letter from you guys that said that I wasn't going to be
<br /> affected somehow.And I was told that's a legal term. How am I not going to be affected? Now, when Cedar Ridge
<br /> High School went in there I was told I'm not going to be affected. I'm affected.You should see the traffic on Orange
<br /> Grove now. When 1-40 was put in there, I was told I'm not going to be affected. I have trucks rolling down there all
<br /> night long, motorcycles and everything. So there's not such thing as not being affected. It's a legal term, so I don't
<br /> understand how I'm not going to be affected in this. I don't particularly want--- plant down there. I mean someone
<br /> can do that. Who exactly wants this property? There's wet lines down there. A good portion of this is in a flood
<br /> plain. So somebody's influencing somebody in this planning commission out here, to say we want to put something
<br /> in that place. Somebody has something in mind. I don't know who it is. I know when the transfer facility was being
<br /> placed out there the study that was done at the time said the number one prime location for the transfer facility,
<br /> right here, that was the number one site until we spoke up and said that's in the flood plain. I mean how can
<br /> somebody who got paid 5 million dollars to do research on this and find this a number one site for this. That's
<br /> possibly the worst environmental site to put a garbage facility. Because somebody put a garbage dump next to my
<br /> property. On top of it, it's in the flood plain. That's the first thing I want to say, is this even suitable? So someone
<br /> obviously wants this property for commercial development. Now, let me clarify something; I have mixed feelings
<br /> about this. I live next door. I'm a farmer. I have an orchard, a successful nursery out there. I'm a resident. It's going
<br /> to affect this residence, a lot. At the same time you guys decide to approve this, my land value goes up. I'm on
<br /> prime land.The whole property... if I want to get out of here. I've built my own house, I live there, I put up the whole
<br /> farm and a whole industry in this country. That gets affected by turning this into a manufacturing facility. Which is
<br /> exactly where it's going, it's not offices that are going to go there. There's somebody that wants to put
<br /> manufacturing in there. Otherwise, they wouldn't change it. And I would really like to know who it is. I find it very
<br /> disturbing. That's going to change my taxes, there's going to be water and sewer there, which I could care less. I
<br /> don't want city water. There are a lot of people on the opposite side of this out here. And again, mixed feelings.
<br /> You're going to run a water line there because it's going to have to go up 1-40 and I'm going to have to be paying
<br /> city taxes,which you guys want that. I'm on the outskirts of the city; I don't want to do that.That's why I live there to
<br /> begin with. That's why I bought rural property when I did, back in 1975. I like my privacy. I don't want some plant or
<br /> some office building next to me. Now, offer me the right amount of money then go right to it. So, I'm not saying
<br /> but... this is something you guys need to take into consideration. Somebody is pushing for this, and who is that?
<br /> This doesn't just happen. It's not a convenient place to develop. It doesn't have water, it doesn't have sewer, it has
<br /> to go through the interstate to do that, it's limited capacity to get to that point, it's not going to come for free, and on
<br /> top of that a good deal of it is wetland. It's on a flood plain. To me that's saying something else is going on around
<br /> here.And somebody has self-interest in this. There's really no need for it out there. There's better use to it. Make it
<br /> protected wilderness. Because that's what it is right now. There could be a better application. Or a little park or
<br /> something.And I know that there's good economic development out there but it's really poor land.
<br /> Nathan Robinson- (member of the pubic): My name's Nathan Robinson, and we have a property that's located just
<br /> here on the south, right by Davis Road. So it's about a 13-acre parcel and I understand the purpose of what this
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