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• 5 litigation with Orange County over this particular matter. It has been our hope that some more innovative solution to some of these issues where we feel that we have been treated unfairly, could be developed in this process. With that in mind we made this application, and. of course, we made the application without prejudice to the things we were then engaged in with Orange County. But we are here, fundamentally, because the plan that was adopted in 1987 finally, does not permit a reasonable use of our property. We, as Mr. Zapoiski has told you, cannot reasonably in a constitutional sense use our property for anything. I sympathize with folks, I think there were chuckles when the suggestion that there were some buffering that could be done _between the interstate, some folks chuckled about that and I think the chuckles are a part of the fact that it is nice to have that buffer there now, it's nice to have that green belt . through there that other people own that protects you if you live further away from the interstate. The problem is there are people who own that greenbelt, including my client, and who think that they ought.. to have some reasonable use of their property and that's what we're trying to do here. The purpose, the reason we're here is to talk about a Comprehensive Plan change, but I don't want to hide the ball on anybody. We want to put a crush stone quarry on that property, that's why we want it rezoned AR, that's .what we've been after since 1983, when we first prospected on this property. The reason we want to be there is that there are roughly, in excess of 40 million tons of aggregate reserves on that property. That's a substantial amount of money. Those are valuable, natural resources-natural resources, by the way, that each of you use everyday, they're like gold and diamonds to us, they may look like a little prop to you but they are our gold and our diamonds and the reason we're here is that we desire to mine those valuable natural resources and we can't under the current classification. Mr. Carey: Mr. Phears, I would like to ask that you, this public hearing is not on the specific use that you plan to make of that property if the land use is changed, and I would like to ask you to limit your discussions and your comments to the applicability of land use change in that particular location. I may have omitted saying .earlier that we would like each person who speaks tonight to try to limit your presentation to 3 minutes, because we want to give everyone a . chance to speak who wishes to speak tonight, however, we will not shut you off to 3 minutes. We do want to hear everything you have .to say but we would like to ask you to make your - comments specific to the issue before this public hearing tonight. Mr. Phears: Well, I had anticipated, frankly, that some of the audience would raise the possibility of the quarry would be permitted, in fact, I think it is already been raised here so I assume that we're going to eliminate all the discussion