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TO: Area Plan Commission <br />FROM: Kathleen and William Sikes — on behalf of the neighborhood encompas ed by <br />Lynnwood, Shellbark, Mays and the west side of Lilac <br />i <br />We are requesting that the Commission give a "NOT RECOMMENDED" rating for <br />the zoning request for the land at the corner of Lynnwood and Cleveland. <br />This is about destroying a quiet, lawful neighborhood of very modest homes <br />maintained by small incomes. This about light pollution, noise pollution and the j <br />intrusive odors of car exhaust fumes and cooking grease. None of these environmental <br />pollutants can be effectively contained by screens, fences, filters or sticks that hope to be <br />trees. <br />This is about fear. No one wants to be perceived as refusing to allow a developer to <br />earn a living. Everyone is afraid to be seen as opposing growth. Our economic structure <br />seems to depend on the constant destruction of green spaces and neighborhoods s'o that <br />yet another shiny building can be built. There are lots of shiny new buildings along <br />Portage and they will look like trash in a few years as our Destructo economic machines <br />drives further north and west and creates newer and shinier areas. <br />i' <br />This is about arrogance. In a previous encounter, we made it very plain that h comer <br />is an absolutely lousy place for a commercial zoning. This space will be filled wi <br />problems for the county, the city and most certainly for the residents of the neighborhood. <br />Yet, here we are again going over the same ground and proving the same points. <br />Why should our taxes pay for meetings, sewers, stop lights and road reconfigurations? <br />This is also about crocodile tears. Surely during the presentation there will bq'' <br />comments made by the petitioner as to what a great new feature this area will be a' how <br />he will make every effort to be friends with the neighborhood. He already owns trashed <br />house on the property in question and he has not attended to it or the complaints <br />nearby neighbors. To us this shows his real level of concern. <br />The answer to a zoning change was NO three years ago. A lousy idea rarely $ets <br />better with age and this one certainly hasn't. It's still a lousy idea. <br />FZ =C -I <br />1,2 2008 <br />PLAN! COMMlSSiJPd <br />