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<br />order to say yeah we do the land use first and then we can go and rezone it. Is that a way of saying let’s get this first 390
<br />because somebody wants to rezone that later. It’s not, it doesn’t make sense that we have to put that little 12 acre 391
<br />piece in there, it’s just a way to get it in line so that in your next agenda you can then rezone it. Like other people, 392
<br />that connection to Davis, and we’ll talk about that more in the second one, it makes no sense. Davis is a two-lane393
<br />road where the white line actually will go into the gravel sometimes it’s so narrow. The development on Davis is not 394
<br />where you want to put it. And lastly, so how do we change it? Every time we come to one of these meetings, we 395
<br />want to change the master plan of the development to zone it more industrial and take away rural and you said well 396
<br />that’s been the plan for 20 years. Well obviously, it can be changed so how do we change it back. Do we go to the 397
<br />zoning board? Do we go to the County Commissioners? How do we put restrictions as the people that live out here, 398
<br />so that every year we don’t have to keep doing this and that a decision made 20, 30 years, is not going to come up 399
<br />all the time. One last comment, and Randy with all due respect, you said earlier that we have to make this quick or 400
<br />we’ll be here terribly late. I understand we got to make it quick but we live here. We’re the one that have to deal with 401
<br />the decisions being made so if people have to stay up a little later, I think that’s a small sacrifice for those of us who 402
<br />have to live with being up terribly late with development so with all due respect, I’m ok with staying up a little late and403
<br />I think everybody else is to. Thank you.404
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<br />Maryanne Ross: Hi, thank you for having this meeting and thank you Bob for that. We are community members and 406
<br />with all due respect, if we are here later, this is our neighborhood. The last meeting that we attended it was put off to 407
<br />a later date and they waited until we forgot, they waited until something else happened and they passed a rezoning. 408
<br />It’s the same thing that Ronald said, the sign was put out and it was so small, the meeting had passed, it was only for 409
<br />a few people and then the next thing I knew, I drove by and there were like 20 signs out. And then the meeting 410
<br />happened a week later. So, speaking to David and Hunter and Melissa, welcome, the OCPB charge is that 411
<br />‘harmonious development, future needs, homes, homestead, wildlife habitat’ we have deer, we have endangered 412
<br />bluebirds, we have many wildlife that are living in this neighborhood community. Whether or not we live 1.75 miles, 413
<br />2.3 miles, we live on Davis, we live on Ode Turner, we live in this neighborhood. This is where we live now. We 414
<br />didn’t live here 20 years ago this is where we live this is where our families are this is our harmonious development 415
<br />we are your constituents we would appreciate you listening to what we have to say. I’m talking to you Hunter, I’m 416
<br />talking to you Melissa, I’m talking to you David. Apparently, you weren’t here when we had this meeting two years 417
<br />ago and they wanted to rezone yet again these same areas and that fell through and what Mr. Altieri described 418
<br />earlier, the whole kit and caboodle was this is an example of the Town giving an inch and a developer taking a mile 419
<br />because there’s a little bit of an extra parcel and that’s what they want to do. And we implore you to please put a 420
<br />stop to it. Let us have our green area. Let us live our lives where we live it best. I do not need nor do we want to 421
<br />have this traffic, this green space taken away, Thank you.422
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<br />Jon Lorusso: Good evening, I don’t have a lot to say. I wanted to voice my opposition to this. I also live off Davis 424
<br />Road across from the New Hope Springs Subdivision. I am against this I concur with previous speakers about the 425
<br />signs. I almost got into an accident myself trying to read information off a sign. It does feel like this is being done 426
<br />without the, no one voices their opposition. I came in from a meeting late tonight and I missed the meeting in July. I 427
<br />wasn’t at the meeting a few years ago that the previous speaker mentioned. I don’t know how long in the process we 428
<br />are but once it’s done you cannot undo it. You cut down a tree the tree is gone it’s not coming back you can’t just put 429
<br />a new one there. If this is done, it’s permanent. It will change forever the place that we live. The phrase Not in My 430
<br />Back Yard comes to mind. I don’t know how many of the County Commissioners live in this area if this was being 431
<br />done on the other side of the County, I probably wouldn’t care but it is being done in my backyard like the previous 432
<br />speakers have said, I didn’t move here so that I could live next to a giant manufacturing district. This is just not why I 433
<br />moved here not why I live here. I would also like to reiterate what speakers said about the potential use. What’s 434
<br />going to go on here? No idea. I think she mentioned a rubber tire factory, who knows? It’s really none of our 435
<br />business right? It’s private property, they can do whatever they want. I am very upset by this and I really wish you 436
<br />wouldn’t do this to us. That’s all I have to say.437
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<br />Stephen Williams: I just wanted to voice my concerns and many people have already spoken on the topics I was 439
<br />concerned about. I am wondering why the residents in this area haven’t be given any results as to if traffic studies 440
<br />have been done on the impacts that this facility might have on traffic as well as green space. I spent one day this 441
<br />week putting up my new mailbox because I am in the process of building on a property 3 acres that will border this 442
<br />potential development and life others have said, as I was putting up my mailbox, bikers went by, people walking, 443
<br />cars, it’s just unimaginable what the impacts will be on Davis Road to allow an entrance or exit to a facility of this 444
<br />size. I am also confused as to why the 12 acres is so important. We keep saying that it’s, we’ll talk about something 445
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