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Public Hearing, Ordinance No. 2008-117 October 7, 2008 mind to determine what the motivation would be for any elected or indeed appointed official of this municipal government to vote for such a proposition. And he cannot find it. What is it? It seems to him that anyone who does vote for this owes an explanation to the people seated in this room and the others out in that area who invested their life savings in their property. What is the motivation to vote yes? Is it personal friendships? Political connections? Financial benefit? It is not a benefit to the municipality. And to think that anyone at this point in American history would finance this project and go forward with it now is utterly absurd. In this morning's newspaper, there are articles about other municipalities finding rezoning proposals being withdrawn because they can't find any financing for it. And what will happen to this one if it is passed and not financed and not followed through is, it will wind up, just as someone observed, with 44 units on it because that's the nature of the zoning law. As Council goes through the various readings and the consideration, he urges them to think about what the reason is you would give to these people for voting for this project. 6) Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, suggested another public hearing be held on this. There are enough comments and conversation to be aired. President Kennedy noted a committee meeting would be held on the legislation and it can go as long as needed. 7) Maureen Sheer, 5646 Canterbury Road, said she would like her children to be able to walk to school for a variety of reasons-health, social skills, and even economic reasons. Busing children is very expensive. However, she doesn't want to put her children at risk because they are walking down a very busy road to get to school. The schools that are by her house would be very reasonable to walk to. More houses will be more traffic, more kids that will potentially have to bused, higher costs as parents are not going to want their children walking down a busy street like that. Another concern is that she thought it was in the Charter that they had the right to vote if the zoning changed from Residential to Multi-Family zoning. 8) Ed Wiles, 25746 Butternut Ridge Road, said he wanted to comment on the Planning Commission. He understands it was their charge to only consider rezoning if it was for the health and safety of our community. He doesn't think they proved that to anybody at any of those meetings. He lives right across the street from the proposed development. He knows of two people who were hit by cars on Butternut Ridge. One was his son, and the sixth year anniversary is coming up. It's a busy street. It's hard when it's sunny, nice, and dry out but you add some inclement weather and bad things can happen. He knows Council doesn't want any of that kind of thing to happen to any family. He personally does not oppose somebody developing that property. It's zoned residential, and there are 10 acres. If you look at the average home on that street, you can put one home on an acre. That is reasonable, but not to potentially put 40 homes on that property. All those headlights will be coming right into his front windows. Obviously, he does not want it. But, for the community, you're looking at very pleasant, historical district that would change dramatically with this kind of development. 9) Laura Childs, 5988 Columbia Road, said her concerns are a little different because she Lives downhill of this proposed development. The land slopes towards hers and her 4