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things like this could be followed by any number of really unkind things happening to people, even up to the point of losing their life because they would disagree or have opposition to particular points that the public officials might have. And so I just appreciate the fact that we have the privilege to live in a country like this. We're part of this community that -, and we're concerned about this incremental zoning, as you've heard. I would just like to say that lots of smart people spoke on this today, and I'm not going to reiterate all the things that they have said, except to the point that this, I believe, is a public safety issue for our community. When the County allows a developer to participate, as this one has, in step-by-step, taking small parcels and incremental zoning and to thwart the overall intent of the law, which is to provide the opportunity for communities to be able to study and to find out if there's traffic problems, if there's going to be traffic problems with health and the Police Department and Safety and Fire and so on, and also for entrances into major highways, that's a public safety issue. When we have cesspools as the option rather than sewer systems that have the possibility of leaching into our marine structures and into our water tables, that's a public safety problem. When the community is not built to enable the Fire Department, what's proposed here, even though they have come and said well this might change later on, this is what we have to look at, not something else. And so we have to go and say this is what they're proposing. And when you look at this, that's a fire safety problem. That is a safety problem. When fire can jump from a community that cannot be effectively fight a fire because the Fire Department cannot enter and move their trucks and their equipment around effectively, the potential of that fire to jump to other communities, that's a public safety problem. When schools are overburdened, it's a public safety problem. When the developer skirts the spirit of the law for the letter of the law, and for the bottom line only, and does it with a wink and a nod from our public officials, that's a public safety problem. The developer states that there is no impact on the schools, that the water will be taken care of sometime, some way, by some kind of an arrangement that's going to come and that is not shown to be an effective in a place, that is a public safety problem. When the community continues to grow without the appropriate taking of the time to put the infrastructure into place, this is a public safety problem. I understand it costs a lot of money to run roads. We all understand those things. But at some point, somebody has to say this is public safety here and we cannot continue to permit, we cannot continue to make zoning changes until these things are taken place. Let's not say we're going to solve the problem someday, somehow, and in the meantime, keep permitting and permitting and permitting and rezoning and rezoning and never addressing the real problem which is the infrastructure. Every time I come to these meetings, it's the same thing that comes to the forefront. You guys must get sick to death of hearing these kinds of things being brought, so let's figure out a solution. You're the guys in the driver's seats, somehow there needs to be a solution. Business is going to do what business is going to do. They're going to make jobs, they're going to make money, and that's a good thing and that's what it does. But it's not a good thing when they are a poor corporate citizen. And this developer, by what they are planning on doing here, increasing the density and without any regard for the things like, you know, buffer 28