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didn't have to be preserved to achieve this, but did want to <br />preserve the character, i.e., vistas and so forth. Rafalow <br />indicated that he liked the suggestion that development that does <br />occur should encourage some diversity; he agreed there is a lot of <br />diversity already and this is one of the things he liked. One of <br />the things he would like to see in whatever small amount of <br />development that would occur in his vision would be for development <br />to encourage communities and not just people who live in houses <br />nearby to each other. He said he had learned that there are ways <br />in which the development of physical space can be done that <br />encourages people interacting with each other. <br />Like others who had already spoken, Lee Rafalow also wanted to see <br />the impacts of development minimized. He believed that minimizing <br />impacts also meant minimizing development itself, although he was <br />willing to be shown to be wrong in this assumption. He said he <br />liked the idea of public spaces, but didn't think this necessarily <br />meant ownership by the State or County. They could be common areas <br />owned by small developments that are part of building the character <br />of a very localized community. He said there was an alternative to <br />public ownership and this was community ownership. Curtis Bane <br />asked who picked up the garbage or mowed the grass. Rafalow <br />mentioned development alternatives previously reviewed by the group <br />that contained common areas owned by people in the development who <br />were cooperatively responsible for maintenance. Bane asked about <br />access by people from outside the development. Judd Edeburn <br />mentioned a park in his community owned and maintained by the <br />Ruritan Club that was open to everyone. Rafalow clarified that he <br />was not against pubic ownership, he just wanted to emphasize that <br />this was not the only mechanism for getting public spaces. <br />Elio Soldi asked if he (Lee Rafalow) meant that he would not <br />exclude the possibility of open area owned by a smaller community, <br />but accessible to the larger community or was this impossible. <br />Rafalow said he was not trying to state this, although he thought <br />this was a desirable goal. He said that when he mentioned this, it <br />was not a major point, he was just trying to say there were many <br />ways to achieve this goal. He said that a part of his vision was <br />for people to be able to realize fair value for their land and that <br />he didn't want" to see people penalized by their neighbors. On the <br />other hand, he thought it was important for everyone to realize as <br />neighbors that we all live here or chose to live here because of <br />what is here now with some expectations of what the future might <br />be. Those expectations were created (and will be created) by <br />zoning. Rafalow said that in the ideal world, he wanted whoever <br />desired to sell their property to get top dollar for it and he <br />wanted the person who bought it to be outstanding neighbor. His <br />definition of an outstanding neighbor was someone who isn't going <br />to destroy the character of the neighborhood. Getting away from <br />his vision, he said that in the real world people who pay top <br />dollar for property tend to destroy the neighborhood. He said <br />there was a real problem everyone had to deal with as a group and <br />5 <br />