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want to build 45 homes in a five -acre lot. By the time you take away the retention ponds, the streets, the pocket parks, we're talking about 45 homes in about a three -acre piece of property. What worries me even more than that, is once this project, if this project is allowed to go through, there's another piece of property just to the east of that on the south side of the road, and that's nine acres. That will be up for development because you can't stop development, if you let one person develop one side, you have to let somebody develop the other side. It's the complete destruction of our historical district. Later on down the road, what are we, widen the roads, put in streetlights, a McDonald's? I don't know, it's just a horrible thing. We have about approximately 103 houses on Butternut Ridge Road now. Forty-five houses... we're talking about almost a 50% increase in housing with one fine swoop, and then the other side of the street is at 100%. If you lived on Butternut, or drive down Butternut Road, it is a traffic nightmare trying to get out of your house. You cannot back out, there's no way you're going to back out on Butternut Ridge. If you don't have a turnaround, you are in an accident. Those are the most important things. It's just... the only historic street we have in this city to be considered, to demise it, to kill it, to turn it into new developing for what? A buck? Keep our historic district, historic. That's all I want to say. It's a cancer. If we start building there, streetlights, building, more traffic, they told us that there would be only 30 cars peak traffic coming in and out of there. That's not true, you have landscapers, you've got remodelers. You've got all sorts of people going in and out of there, and then you have the neighbors that live directly across the street to houses; they say, well, we'll put up landscaping so you don't see the traffic coming in and out all the time. That's not going to stop, what are they going to wait five years until the landscaping grows in before they don't have light shining through their windows all day and night? I'm not against developing, I think we need development, but where we develop is the important part. You don't develop on your historical district. You just don't do that. I can't believe we even consider that. It's a cancer. Once it starts in one place, it spreads. You can't stop it. It'll eat up our historic district. We do not need this there. There's plenty of other places to build, I have no problem where to build where the building calls for it, but not in the historical district. Thank you very much. Council President Pro Tempore Scarl: Thank you. Mr. Sharp: Hello, I'm Robert Sharp, S-H-A-R-P, 25407 Butternut Ridge for 47 years. I have a question. Is it appropriate for me to provide a handout? I've reduced some of our information to writing. Is it appropriate for me to hand it out? Council President Pro Tempore Scarl: Sir, you can give that to the clerk, and she'll disperse it to the council members. [attached to minutes #2] Mr. Sharp: Well I'll come back to this, our analysis of the Comprehensive 2025 Master Plan. In the one meeting here, it was suggested that the 2025 Master Plan, that this proposed development was 10-21.-25 Council Meeting Minutes Page 9