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141 24 confuse what it is you are supposed to be doing with that. The next thing I would say is, that of all of the standards that are contained in the Private Road section the two that seem to me to be the most important are the lot size because that is going to determine DOT' s eventual willingness to maintain the road, or maybe not lot size but lot configuration might be a more accurate way. DOT has a rule by which they decide whether or not they are going to maintain a road . It seems to me that when the Planning Board and Staff looks at a subdivision that should be the first thing to look at, whether or not this road were public if DOT would ever take it over for maintenance . I think if it were part of a subdivision that somewhere down the road would meet DOT' s density standards, there ought to be a very strong bias in favor of that road being public. The way . that a developer who wants to build a private road subdivision counters that is by creating some thing about the subdivision that would prevent DOT taking it over. That is an approach such as lot configuration or lot size or something of that nature . It seems to me until recently that the only thing that mattered when Staff or when the Board was looking at these was the lot count and I think that is an inappropriate way to review the subdivisions. I think that you have changed that practice and now are going through a process of the reviewing the subdivisions with the eye toward making sure that they meet the standards for private roads. One thing about that that I 'm still concerned is going on is that my sense is that when a subdivision is submitted as a private road subdivision, the Planning Staff and Board is assuming the burden of changing that idea. The burden of establishing the right or a need for a public road are being taken on by the Staff and Planning Board. That, as a matter of the concept of private roads in the Subdivision Regulations, is the exact opposite of what Is intended. The intention has been all along that the standard was public roads and the burden was on the developer to establish a basis for a private road . The Staff nor the Planning Board has no burden in that regard. The developer ought to be here telling why his private road subdivision should be approved. That is probably the most important thing I want to say. Insure that that burden is the way it is unless it is changed ; but intentionally so, not by practice . Another thing which happens on a regular basis