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to decipher but you can see that there has not been a crash any where near the area in question. Indeed I did not request data for a longer period but I am sure the result is going to be the same. Clause 5.6 Admittedly the council was told that it was the backing in and out of the lot that was hazardous. Let us look at that. As I mentioned above just about all households and small businesses on Lexington Avenue are backing in and out of their lots. Are we going to remove all those areas also? But more importantly are we saying that backing in and of itself is dangerous? I think not. It is in relation to other factors that it might be so. But what is the traffic that we are backing into? On Autumn Street there are days just one car goes towards Lexington Avenue all day long. Please look at the numbers I have submitted for the traffic volume on Autumn Street. And then we are not backing into Lexington Avenue traffic either as I showed earlier. See supra discussion of clause 4.3. I am not sure what information was used to arrive at the said conclusion. It certainly is anachronistic even if it was once relevant. Such information is not referenced in the report. I do not see it. Please let me digress a little. It is a definite discomfort for a small business entity paying over $12,000.00 in property taxes on a property that is not worth more than $425,000. It makes sense if the city and the county want the tax dollars they want; they make an effort to make sure the citizens and small businesses have the ability and freedom with which to earn the money that they have to pay their taxes out of. I am not saying that we should not pay attention to the concerns of the community. Far from it. But I am saying that we make an effort to reconcile the community interests and the needs for revenue growth. So in this case I see that the .safety was the main concern but in light of the facts I have presented it can be seen that the risk is not there on merely deductive reasoning. But I did present some empirical evidence also. Indeed the type of risk we are looking at is a whole lot more down and up the road from our property. Indeed the UPS and FEDX trucks are stopping and delivering all along Lexington and that risk is far greater to the flow of traffic since Lexington is a 2 lane road and the center lane is for turning. The trucks stopping causes a back up or going and driving in the turn lane. I have seen many other trucks stop and make deliveries also. To me that type of risk is a whole lot larger than the risk we are talking about.