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which is the rest of the people in the County who you represent. And because of that, IÓve mentioned in my written testimony that one of the major con personally with our lot is that we bought the lot, we wanted to do agriculture on the lot, but we have been told by the people that are in charge of the water and looking at the water situation, that if all the lots are sold there will be no capacity for the water system to provide water to everyone. Also, with the present price of the water that is being charged by the private water company illegally in violation of the PUC regulations that have established the rates, that we canÓt do agriculture there; and this is supposed to be an agricultural subdivision. So my interest is in making sure or doing whatever I can to prevent, or to discourage, or to inform the rest of the citizens that this continued sales of lots in this subdivision is going to make, is going to victimize me personally and all that I have put into this lot financially and otherwise, as well as my, which I think is separate from the general public who will be victims if theyÓre able to go and buy a lot without the full disclosure that there isnÓt enough water in the fire hydrants, for example, that theyÓre merely, as far as, basically, decorative items, that weÓve been told that thereÓs between two and five minutes of water that will come out of those fire hydrants in the event of a fire. And, so, I donÓt want to put in all my savings and so forth into my property there to build a house and, or a farm, and then have it burned down Òcause we canÓt get water out of the fire hydrant right in front. I think that something is happening with this development. The water company is owned by Mr. Newell Bohnett solely. He has bankrupted the water company and he has raised the rates, as I said, over and above the PUC rates. And, so, if the County wants to allow this developer to continue selling these properties and ask the County to help facilitate, I believe that that was in their petition to help facilitate the sales of the rest of these lots, the County, in my opinion, would be in complicity with this developer to victimize these innocent people that might be looking at those beautiful lots up there. So thatÓs, itÓs not my full testimony about this issue; but I believe that my interest is distinguishable from the general publicÓs interest which gives me standing. GALDONES:Thank you, Ms. OÓBrien. Commissioners, any further discussion? Hearing none, Jeff? DARROW:Should we -? GALDONES:On the motion. Because we had further testimony, then voting all over again, please. DARROW:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Kubota? KUBOTA:Aye. DARROW:Commissioner Fujikawa? 10