Planning Board - 081920 Agenda Packet

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D R A F T Craig Benedict: We regularly, as part of the public hearing process, take a look at the input that comes from 557 residents and it is gauged against our Comprehensive Plan. There is not a numerical limit that makes it go one way 558 or the other. There is a public hearing process.559 560 Cedar Eagle: Ok, thank you that’s all I needed to know.561 562 Tom Altieri: If I might add, what you are describing sounds a little bit like a reference to annexation law in that when 563 an area is proposed for voluntary annexation, a majority of the property owners have to agree to that annexation. 564 That could be what you are referring to. Annexation of course is not proposed here and there is no rezoning part of 565 Item 8.566 567 Jack Rupplin: Good evening, I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about this issue. I was ignorant about it until 568 a few days ago until Franklin Garland told me about it because I noticed the little signs but they didn’t mean much to 569 me. He briefed me on this and I realized the impact that this would have on the total area and I was totally shocked. I 570 thought that this amount of time that he described was totally short fused especially on circumstances we are living 571 now with the COVID and so I contacted my attorney and he referred me to another attorney and in turn they referred 572 me to Morningstar Law and they are a very good group of attorneys who specialize in this sort of issue. I spoke with 573 them and I asked them what it would take for them to represent us in this case which I will oppose with all ingenuity 574 and money I can muster to stop this because it is totally a rough plan. It’s a plan without any thought there is no 575 special use zoning in here, it’s just all very broad stroked and that makes it very dangerous and very unpredictable 576 and we will suffer the consequences for a long time and I am personally very happy where I’m near and I will want to 577 continue living where I am. So, as to what I want from you all is a voluntary deferment or delay of any action so we, 578 the residents of this area, we can organize and we can retain legal counsel and we can prepare a plan or a counter 579 plan and suggest some modifications to the zoning or the rezoning and suggest some modifications to the RTLP and 580 come up with something that is reasonable. This is our area not the Planning Board’s area. We want to work with 581 you and we want to organize we are not going to be run over and we are not going to be forced into this so I would 582 like to ask you to consider postponing this and give us the time to organize and to get legal counsel. Hereby, I 583 pledge $1,000 dollars of my money as seed money to begin this action. I thank you very much for your attention and 584 God bless you.585 586 Betty Garland: I just wanted to say that this is going to be in my backyard. We do a brisk agritourism business in 587 general here and this is going to have a very negative impact on that. Also, regarding petitions and signatures we 588 had about 5000 against the Summit project but it got voted in anyway so like if we had 30,000 signatures would that 589 get somebody’s attention? I would like to get that really clarified if I can. That’s it.590 591 Kaila Mitchell: I’m Kaila Mitchell, I live on Jedi Way my parents live on one side and then my in-laws live on the other 592 we are about a quarter of a mile down the road from Old 86. Before we move here, at the end of 2017, my husband 593 Matt Mitchell spoke with Michael Harvey asking about the development plans as far as that expansion that plot that 594 will come up to Davis. He was told that were was no appetite for it and so we were under the impression that it would 595 not happen. If we had known that it would have, of course we would have chosen not to move here. Some of our 596 concerns, just like many of our neighbors that I agree with, we are concerned about light, and noise, pollution, air 597 pollution and of course safety because of the increase traffic, especially the big trucks. I’d also, the potential for the 598 decrease in the value of our property being so close to a warehouse district. So I wanted to make my concerns 599 known as well and that I stand in solidarity with my neighbors being 100% opposed to this. Thank you.600 601 Jon Lorusso: I spoke earlier, I’d just like to say that if this meeting were in person, the attendees, the residents would 602 have the opportunity to meet and meet each other in person a lot of my neighbors, share contact details and organize 603 in a way that Mr. Rupplin was speaking about. We don’t have the opportunity to do that because this is being done 604 virtually but if, I was made aware of this through Mr. Garland, Mr. Franklin Garland, I would say, just to keep it simple, 605 I am going to email him and see if he has any means of organizing the rest of us. Perhaps a Facebook group or 606 something along those lines would be useful. Mr. Rupplin if you have any ideas, I can’t really share my email with 607 you right now but I will try to get in touch with you through Mr. Garland and hopefully we can organize something that 608 way. That’s all I have thank you.609 610 13