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deal with Mr. Wilson, as he believed there is a need for properly conceived multiple family housing up there and thought that staff would see this is done in an orderly way. Mr. Muller was concerned about complying with flood ordinance requirements along the river and hoped that any developer going through this process of dropping density would not lose any rights. Attorney Brandenburg stated that Mr. Wilson would have to comply with all the storm ordinance requirements unless he fell within one of the exceptions or waiver positions, and that would have to be looked at by the Board at the time of site plan. It does not appear that he would fall into any known exception at'this point. Chairman Bird invited Mr. Muller to express his concerns and feelings in this matter to Attorney Brandenburg George Kraft, 3536 Martha's Lane, noted that LD zoning in the old Master Plan ended at Hobart Road. For some unknown reason Planning & Zoning dropped the ball right there, and on the other side of Hobart Road they left LD -2. This was at the same time that Planning & Zoning asked the Hobart brothers to consider R-1 zoning, which is now on the north and east sides of Mr. Wilson's property. The residents of Hobart Landing feel that the density was never actually 15 units per acre and that Dave Rever, former Planning Manager, allowed these unusual densities to occur. Now they are back to 6. He felt that we should have comparable and compatible density and that it should all be R-1 zoning. Mr. Kraft did not feel that Mr. Wilson had been cooperative or conciliatory until just recently. He brought up the fact that Mr. Wilson destroyed their existing privacy buffer by removing a 40' wide stretch of 80 year old trees, which he claimed were dangerous although they had withstood many storms. Mr. Wilson promised to give the residents of 43 DEC 7 1983 BOOK 55 PACE -a 4 0