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• • The consultant introduced 2 City staff and a LPISD representative to the 3-16-00 P&Z meeting as speakers who would give an " objective overview of the Pros and Cons" .....and they gave NO cons, even though 2 of the speakers were well aware of the many "cons". ....and we have proven many of their statements to be very slanted or outright false. The Consultant has repeatedly claimed that thoroughfare planning principles call for this road to be put through. We repeatedly tried to get the consultant's references that support his claims, but he would not return our phone calls. The City Planning Director repeatedly promised use this information but did not produce it until we went to the City Manager and said we'd take the issue to Council if necessary. ... and the references the consultant finally provided prove his claims are wrong and also show he left out many pages of vital information that prove our safety concerns are valid and that this road should not happen. The engineering references also prove the consultant and others were wrong in claiming Lomax's main streets are arterials, when by definition they are residential streets because driveways enter them. Our view is; the evidence proves that the Comprehensive Plan process was manipulated by a few people at City Hall to produce the results they wanted and not the results the Citizens wanted. Our view is that the only respectable part of the entire process, was the vote of the Steering Committee to remove this road from the Comprehensive Plan. The Mayor's Position Paper states the Steering Committee will recommend changes to Council and a Councilman has told us that Council will respect the decision of the Steering Committee. We expect the Mayor and the Council to honor their statements to us and to remove all 3 phases of the Farrington extension from the Comprehensive Plan as the Steering Committee voted to do.