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13 Price:But do we,we could produce some kind of a document? Gooding-Ray:We could make up some kind of a resolution? Benedict: That is your option.You can. Gooding-Ray: OK.I have 27 people who have signed up and are all these people planning on speaking? When I last took a hand count I got 7. So,could we have a hand count again of how many people are actually planning on speaking?7,wonderful. So,we would like to give you three minutes. Ok,I am going to go down this list in order. Bob Johnson: I would like to go first just because I think a lot of people are here bemuse I put a flyer on their mailbox. I won't go anywhere near 3 minutes, I'll be 20.You addressed some of our conncems,we know that you can't overturn what the council members did,but we do know that the plan for Tuscany Ridge was originally approved here and all these people here,and this is just a small representation of the people who live within about a mile of the Tuscany Ridge development,these are the people who could make it out tonight. Everyone is up in arms about such a very dense development being approved in such an obvious rural area.We have a few 5-acre lots,mostly 10acre lots in the area and this development was approved at the bare minimum for the county,2-acre lots.We also understand that we are in the rural buffer and that the notification requirements for the rural buffer are nil.We don't have to be notified.But, we thought that any reasonable person could look at this development and the area it is going in to know that some son of notification needed to happen.We have heard you say that the developer says that he talked with some of the neighbors. I don't think you will find a person here that even knew about the development up until a week ago when I put a flyer on their mailbox because I noticed surveyors back on the land and I noticed the road being prepared for paving by the DOT.Apparently to service this development. So I guess we have three areas or questions or statements really. One along the lines of the history of the planning for this development and the approval of this development on how we got lot sizes that were so small. Perk sites on each one of these lots sites when all of us know that having perk sites on land in this pan of Orange County is very difficult and water issues. Getting wells into 22 lots on this 52 acre tract when people who live within a couple hundred feet of several ofthese lots have wells 400,450 feet deep and... water.We are wondering what the impact is going to be on all of our wells when these 22 new wells go in. Is there any redress for us should our wells go dry once they cap 22 wells?And then the second area that we will be very interested in is how we make sure this doesn't happen in the firture, There are several large chunks of land here that are I'm sure going to be proposed for development soon. And we don't want to be caught by surprise after the fact again on whether there is development going in. It would be very nice if we knew about it in advance and we could have a chance to voice our concerns beforehand or even talk to the developer beforehand and find out what he wants to do,what he is planning on doing and maybe affect his plans from the beginning.That is really all I wanted to say and I know there are some passions that are running high and we will try to keep it calm.I'll open the microphone. Gooding-Ray: Ok. If people could say their name when they come up that would be great. Sam Fudge: My family has lived adjacent to this property since 1963.And I heard about this,I have seen the open space and pathways,at ten o'clock this morning. I reviewed the subdivision requirements and it says under 2 page 25 under land suitability on 4B2 this is .... when reviewing the subdivision proposals the planning board shall consider the overall design of the proposal in light of the suitability of the land for development to insure that the planning and development of the subdivision will not create a danger to the health,safety and welfare of Orange County residents.And suitability shall be determined by an investigation of conditions including but not limited to floodprone areas,soil drainage,drainage patterns, slope,historic sites and unique natural areas.