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• . 105E JPA DRAFT MINUTES 4-17-86 PAGE 17 not be lumped and approved together in some kind of joint package without we the citizens knowing what we're buying into. " "We are very sensitive to you who also feel that your neighborhood, that your homes, that your way of life is being adversely affected by various components of this plan. We know where you are and we would like to join with you if you would join also with us. In fact there are those of us who have even considered that we would welcome a high density development in our neighborhood, we would take that away from your neighborhood if that were to occur in your neighborhood if you will help us fight against a garbage dump in our backyard. " Sue Kay stated she was an absentee property owner in the Calvander area and asked that her neighbors requests and concerns be considered for more public hearings on the plan for the Calvander area. Joicey Hurth, Calvander resident: "I too, want to, for the record, add my voice to those in the Calvander area opposed to an industrial park and I too want to request that further hearings on this matter be held since I was not privy to or informed of any previous planning activity. I also just want to mention that in the high population density planned and accompanying industrial plan, the impact on schools has not been mentioned. The schools are already using trailers. I think that such future planning bringing more traffic and higher density population is not well advised for this area. " Robert Lagemann stated that he did not like the plans for the Calvander area. He noted there are some states which are now banning landfills and he continued that landfills do pollute and there is no way to prevent it once it hits the ground. He stated that there are such things as "liners" but indicated these last approximately twenty years. John Stewart stated that he lived outside the "node" but in the Joint Planning Area and presented the following statement: "What is Joint Planning? I trust my County Commissioners to do this. This goes against my democratic rights which I have as an American. I have a right to vote for who represents me and we need to not forget about that. Some people here have endorsed the Joint Planning; I do not in the least. Just think back three or four generations. Folks from England came over here and tried to tell us how to live our life and what we could do with our land. At that time, we took some tea and dumped it in the harbor at Boston. If I go to Bill Thorpe or Jim and tell them I