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1� guarantee us that we will have good water. And I do not have 20 or 30 thousand dollars to sink into more water wells. Gooding-Ray:Is there anyone else that would like to speak? Lucy Adams:I live a little less than a mile away on the other side of that little island of wildness that Tuscan Ridge is cutting in to. Many of the things that I think are important already have been mentioned. The suburban development in a rural setting I guess it has no bearing in a planning situation but it is a little offensive that we have a pretty diverse economically diverse neighborhood, and this is not economically diverse.The two-acre lots that you are looking at as being something that you use as your lower standard,that is a minimum when you put 22,2-acre krts together,you do not maintain rural character. I think that that can be pretty easily understood.A third point of course is the water and septic issues.That is very very troubling. There are people in our area already that are having dry wells. If you can't guarantee that we are not going to run out of water because of development after development after development,what are we going to do?What are you guys going to do for us when we don't have any water?Finally,it is interesting that you talked about the financial side of the Eno Ridge development, because looking through the application,I looked at how they did their financials. I understand that when they do this they use a formula,they use a recipe. They do it like they did every other one before. But,one thing that struck me when I looked at it was that for the ''z million dollar houses with at a minimum 3 bedrooms,probably more like 4 to 5 bedrooms,they are telling us that the family size is going to be 2.5. Now,for an average of the school district,that may be the ease.When I just take sort of a head count in my immediate neighborhood,I count 17-18 houses and 15 children. If you want to,this is very available you can go on the internet and look at year 2000 census data and find a comparable neighborhood.I looked at Cheswick.That is comparable in my eyes, I don't know if it is in anybody else's. But their households are 3.32 individuals and that means that there are 1.32 children per household in Cheswick which I think would be much more believable in this neighborhood too. Gooding-Ray: Ms. Adams your time.is up. Lucy Adams:If you put that into the financials,they are way over. It is not an issue of 2000 dollars per household to pay off,they are going to be costing the County and it is a significant amount. So that is my maim point, Fred Zimmerman:I have a house at 1910 Arthur Minnis Rd.I am fairly new in this neighborhood. So I won't talk about the history of it,but I just want to raise a couple of procedural issues that occur to me. It seems to me that as someone who owns property across the street from this development, or like Mr. Fudge who lives directly across the street from a, it is astounding that we did not know about this:I mean, we all should have been here in this room I gather,this very room evidently two months ago. And we all should have been at the County Commissioner's hearing the other night,which I didn't know about either. I would say to you folks,with all due respect,that an improvement needs to be made is the procedures of some sort.I personally really hate to admit it when I have made a mistake. But I would like to ask you people to admit maybe that you made a mistake and tell the County commissioners that you know have heard a lot of stuff that you should have heard a month and a half ago and furthermore that you have heard some stuff the County Commissioners should have heard the other night and did not.This afternoon I was able to watch the tape of the County commissioner's meeting. It was amazing,the staff director made a very bare bones presentation,then the Commissioners voted unanimously.After they preliminarily approved it the Chairman expressed an objection to the whole concept following which one of the members of the Commission said she world like to ask the developer a few questions.And she apologized for sort of the bluntness of the question,but she said why did you do it this way?Why didn't you pay more attention to the rural buffer idea?Doesn't the planning board have some model plans that they showed you or something?He said well,we had this walling trail. So,that was it and it was over. c