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' 18 _ �_.. z.--..r,- ,— -- .�- - - ....__ .._._._ - . _< —_ --_ ---- _ ---- -• -• - DRAFT 30 — who's going to take it from there? If it doesn't get into the right hands then we're going to have to be dealing with this over and over and over. One thing I talked to my kids a lot about is just the big issue right now about gasoline. What is a bond, you know, a lot of people if you think about investments you might think a bond is a good thing but when you get a bond and when you build a road or you build a school, who pays for it, we pay the interest, we get to use it but the next generation has to pay for it, not only do they have to pay for the total cost of building the road but they get a depreciated piece of property, a building that has to be repaired, a road that's in disrepair, but to me doing a bond and buying this property would be a good idea. Because to pass that bond onto the next generation, I can tell you right now, my daughter signed this because she would like to be given something like that, she would like to be turned over something for her future that she could enjoy. There are people that have moved here to move into the community that I'm developing that have come from places like Knoxville, Tennessee where they say uncontrolled development has ruined that town. We know that we have a really special place to live and I would like to thank again personally, the Tapps and the Blackwoods for contributing the specialness of this community. But how can we preserve it and how can we compensate them? Mr. Carey: The next person on the list is Ms. Mary Ellen Priestly but she doesn't have a number by her name. Is this the item you would like to speak on. O.K. would you please come forward. • Mary Ellen Priestly: I'm Mary Ellen Priestly and we live on Cheyenne Drive which is off of 86 and our property was split by I-40 so that the property around the house is to the east of 40 and the property west of 40 is just north of the Bingham property which is part of the green we're talking about, so we are right next to it. Nobody has asked to buy our land and are very we ar a pleased because use we are conservators se to rY P on rva rs of the forest, we are conservators of wildlife and we came here because of the rural area and because of the University which was close by and all the cultural activity there. We built a .substantial house, which is a family home, and we hope that our sons or daughter will continue to live there. So I am rather shocked, a little angry that we have come to try to defend this Rural Buffer again and I hope it's not again and again. For the ink is' hardly dry on a document which we all wanted, I think the majority of the people in this County wanted to have a Rural Buffer. I am skeptical of a name such as Envirotek, because environment is good, environment sounds good, but hearing what I have heard, I know that this is a wolf in sheep's clothing. We have known, / for some time, that the land near us was wanted for a quarry, now to add that plus a commercial node that is not needed.