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. receive notice of it at all. The only way I found out about it was because when I called the engineer - I was asking what was happening in the back of our lot - and he said we were wondering why you weren't at the last meeting and I didn't know what meeting he was talking about because I hadn't received notice, which I found, of course, rather distressing because I've been very, very interested in that development back there since it started - interested in where it was going - and I attended many meetings concerning that area because of my concern. In essence, when we're talking about that road - and I'm talking about the one (inaudible) that particular area - there are really only two people who live there that were affected by it and I, being one of them, didn't receive notification of it. I don't want to ponder that statement forever, but I want to emphasize the impact it had. The other thing - as the lot was drawn on there - it was shown that we had something like - well, they called it a lot and then a lot that was substandard. We bought one lot and on the back part of the lot - the part that is called the substandard lot - (inaudible) we bought because it was a pond area and we bought that because it was wild and natural. It had a pond-like area that had ducks and everything in it - not yearly, but at least a good portion of the summer. It was for that that we bought it. We never bought the lot with any plans of developing it. It was bought as one lot. When I called the engineer and asked what was being done to the back lot (inaudible) he talked about the fact that - I should back up - it now doesn't have any water - it hasn't all summer - and there was a drainage system that was built into it that I, as I understand, was okayed at that previous meeting - so our pond is gone, which was part of why we bought that particular lot, because of that habitat. It's a substandard lot that we don't want to develop and already it's being changed from the status that we had and now we're talking about being charged for sewer and all that other stuff on a lot that is being changed in front of us and we don't want it developed. We want to have that pond there just like it always was. The whole area around us has been changing because of the road and I know there's nothing we can do about that - that had to be done to better develop - but that area was our property. We liked what was going on there - we wanted it like that. Without getting emotional - which I am already - I will try to summarize that by saying that I really resent that assess- ment and think it's very unfair. . The other thing I guess I don't understand is I know we have a large lot in depth, but we're being charged more than anyone else in that development and we don't need that road. The people who couldn't get to their property without that road are being charged less than us. That to me seems unjust. Maybe it's because I'm naive to the workings of the govern- ment, but that doesn't seem right. Then, of course, as I kind of elaborated on the fact that - I know people say that when a road is put in it does add to the value of the -4-