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<br />/êo-vd /Z/ZI /q ß 7: Ibl'hl. <br /> <br />Hastings <br /> <br />12/20/98 <br /> <br />Mayor Werner and council persons <br /> <br />I am Duane Hunstad and I reside at 1357 Jackson Dr <br /> <br />I am against any changes to this property called pleasant hills. Leave it as it is. <br /> <br />If it is needed to be rezone. It should be zoned as R-1 no more than single family homes <br />that would attract younger, possible higher income families that would generate more <br />taxes and income for the city of Hastings. <br /> <br />Then there is the area on the southeast corner that the builder wants the city to give some <br />of the parkland to him so they could put a road in. Where is you (the city of Hastings) <br />going get land to give to the 20,000 other people in this fair city of Hastings as their share <br />of a park? I thought that parkland was at a premium there never is enough of it. <br /> <br />Why should the city help this builder? By giving him some of the park property? <br /> <br />By design the holding pond is suppose to drain to the southeast. It doesn't at normal <br />levels. With the new proposed construct it would increase the overflow. They say the <br />holding pond was design to handle any amount of water, but what is going to happen <br />when we have a 6 inch rainfall??? The family's that live on the north end would have <br />lake front property <br /> <br />I understand that another builder had a survey done to the property and decide that it <br />would be too costly and too difficult to build on. <br /> <br />How many cities do you know of that you have as much wildlife within the city limits? <br />I've seen deer, coyote, fox, rabbits, squirrels, and pheasants, many types of birds and <br />hawks and eagles. Geese and ducks (there were at least 3 family's of ducks raised in the <br />holding pond the summer of 1998 that I seen, there could have been many more) <br /> <br />Don't call this area anything but wildlife and parkland <br /> <br />I believe the City of Hastings has some beautiful areas with the hills and lakes and the <br />rivers why????? Do we want to destroy something that can never be replaced? Let nature <br />have its way. <br /> <br />Another problem I have when I come to these chambers it is so very hard to hear what the <br />mayor or any of the council members are saying. Why can't you turn up the volume on <br />the speaker system so the participants can hear what is being said?? I myself think I have <br />normal hearing and I have been told by other people whom have been here at these <br />meetings, they can't hear everything that has been said. <br /> <br />Thank you for allowing me to say what I had to say may your decision be the right one <br />for the City of Hastings. <br /> <br />God bless <br />