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<br />Paul Guthrie: One last question. Existing owners of residential properties- when and if those water systems are in 380
<br />place would they be eligible to connect? 381
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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 383
<br />to accommodate all the growth in that area. 384
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<br />Lydia Wegman: Okay, let me turn to the public. 386
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<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 388
<br />wanted to make you aware that according to the town officials there is no plan to extend water and sewer south of 389
<br />40 at this point. Of course, everything’s subject to change but there is no plan in place. Second, if you could back 390
<br />up one slide… Employment, and this is in your packets, includes manufacturing. I just wanted to point out a couple 391
<br />of items that would be considered permissible, if this were zoned for manufacturing. Rendering a new by-product 392
<br />processing, poultry processing, seafood product, preparation and packaging, leather and hide tanning and finishing, 393
<br />asphalt paving mixture and block manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, explosives manufacturing, fertilizer 394
<br />manufacturing. That’s all the kinds of things that would be permissible changing this zoning to employment. And, a 395
<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 396
<br />about my air. Thank you. 397
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<br />Franklin Garland - Garland Truffles (member of the public): I pretty much expressed my opinion last week when I 399
<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 400
<br />affected somehow. And I was told that’s a legal term. How am I not going to be affected? Now, when Cedar Ridge 401
<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 402
<br />Grove now. When I-40 was put in there, I was told I’m not going to be affected. I have trucks rolling down there all 403
<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 404
<br />understand how I’m not going to be affected in this. I don’t particularly want --- plant down there. I mean someone 405
<br />can do that. Who exactly wants this property? There’s wet lines down there. A good portion of this is in a flood 406
<br />plain. So somebody’s influencing somebody in this planning commission out here, to say we want to put something 407
<br />in that place. Somebody has something in mind. I don’t know who it is. I know when the transfer facility was being 408
<br />placed out there the study that was done at the time said the number one prim e location for the transfer facility, 409
<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 410
<br />somebody who got paid 5 million dollars to do research on this and find this a number one site for this. That’s 411
<br />possibly the worst environmental site to put a garbage facility. Because somebody put a garbage dump next to my 412
<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 413
<br />obviously wants this property for commercial development. Now, let me clarify something; I have mixed feelings 414
<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 415
<br />to affect this residence, a lot. At the same time you guys de cide to approve this, my land value goes up. I’m on 416
<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 417
<br />farm and a whole industry in this country. That gets affected by turning this into a manufacturing facility. Which is 418
<br />exactly where it’s going, it’s not offices that are going to go there. There’s somebody that wants to put 419
<br />manufacturing in there. Otherwise, they wouldn’t change it. And I would really like to know who it is. I find it very 420
<br />disturbing. That’s going to change my taxes, there’s going to be water and sewer there, which I could care less. I 421
<br />don’t want city water. There are a lot of people on the opposite side of this out here. And again, mixed feelings. 422
<br />You’re going to run a water line there because it’s going to have to go up I-40 and I’m going to have to be paying 423
<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 424
<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 425
<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 426
<br />but… this is something you guys need to take into consideration. Somebody is pushing for this, and who is that? 427
<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 428
<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 429
<br />top of that a good deal of it is wetland. It’s on a flood plain. To me that’s saying some thing else is going on around 430
<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 431
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