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if we take this away and wo don't offer it here (Orono) we have just <br />become a Plymouth or St. Louis Park and have lost the rural character. <br />I'm concerned about this in just another side is the pollution in <br />Painters Creek. We've got to protect the area and watersheds of this <br />area and just that itself is enough to stop anything less than 6 acres. <br />I have a real difficult time feeling sorry for someone economically in a <br />development. I feel that our City is for us and we're here, for someone <br />to make an additional money r I have diff iculty with that. I hope that <br />helps you. <br />Adams - <br />f <br />I have listened very carefully this evening and have sensed that there is <br />a great deal of opposition on the part of the people that live around the <br />area. Put I personally still like the looks of the development, I can <br />imagine that someone can come in there and meet the letter of the law for <br />5 acre lot sizes and that the end result would not be as nice as I think <br />this developnent will be. I think that it will be quite well screened <br />and that the extra 7 houses rea 1 ly won' t be noticeable. So I feel myself <br />in a minority point of view right now. I still think its a nice <br />development. <br />McDonald - Its nice if you took out every other house, it would still be a nice, so I <br />guess (laughter f rom the crowd) so I mean I would 1 ike you to explain why <br />you feel we should put more there even though the people don't want m.ore <br />there. <br />Adams - I think that the natural setting of the property is such that the berming <br />and the tree planting, I think that you could live across the street from <br />the property and really not tel 1 that there were 7 extra houses - whether <br />there is 13 houses or 20 houses - I don't think that anybody in the <br />immediate area is going to be aware of it except for the fact, like you <br />say, that these houses will not be hobby farms. There won't be horses <br />and goats there, there is going to bo a 1 i 11le more traffic then if there <br />were only 13 houses, but I don' t see that its a hardship for anyone around <br />there. <br />McDonald - But you and I don’t r;ave to look at the houses across the street. <br />Goetten - What he is saying is that he doesn't think that there are going to be many <br />people that are going to be...(interrupted by McDonald) <br />McDonald - But that one person, who is here, and they bought the property knowing <br />that the property is 5 acres and they bought it because of that, they <br />don't want..(interrupted by Adams) <br />Adams - I'll give you an analogy of my own neighborhood, I lived next door to an <br />area that was open for about the first 15 years that I lived there. I had <br />10 acres next to me undeveloped, and I loved it. If it was entirely up to <br />me I would have loved to have said there will absolutely bo no <br />development of that land. The area was developed with a one acre <br />minimum lot size - there' is several houses out there - and low and behold <br />now that its nearly completed I find that I like it. <br />McDonald - Oh sure, we get used to everything every once in a while. But the thing <br />is, the question I wanted to ask you is when you bought the property how <br />was it zoned? Was it zoned 1 acre and you knew that there might be houses <br />around you, right? <br />4 <br />i