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The appeal of Manhole Builders was heard an only item on agenda night of Nov. 3. Meeting lasted from 7 PM until nearly 11 PM. Many many persons testified. (This Agenda was not Posted on the City Web Site)

On motion by Matt to deny the application the comissioners voted 3:1 against Manhole Builders. Up until vote time, was much emotion. A never ending line of persons wanting to talk against the project. As making everyone uneasy, the Planning Comission stayed quiet through most testimony.

After an adjurnment at about 10:20PM, the Comissioners then unloaded on to the staff, the applicant and the city traffic engineer. Made me feel uneasy, but they asked direct questions about items which interested me personally. I didn't like the answers, and neither did they. They especially did not like what they got from the traffic engineer, who I found out had never visited the site.

Comissioner Comstock mentioned he drove over to it two time in past month, and the papers and plans certainly did not represent what he saw. Spooky thing was when Matt asked if someone wasn't going to say something or make ANY motion. They all looked at the floor. He asked for motion to deny, and a seconding came before he could get the statement out.

Official reason was lack of legal acces, as current deed cites for "Residential purposes only".