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8-11-03 Council Notes I have reviewed the City's fill dirt permits and there were large differences in. permit requirements. One large land owner had to repeatedly come t® City Hall to reapply for the max 40 Load Permit, while the owner of 11306 N L ,located West o~ Exxon's Pipeline; applied for and received a City permit for 40 + loads of dirt; which gave him unlimited loads of dirt. This was the only permit written to. allow unlimited loads of dirt. When that permit expired, the owner got another City permit for 700 loads. His drainage sketch; as you see,~stated the fill would be confined the back half of the property, but fill dirt was spread over the entire property. The sketch states that drainage will be from the edges down to a middle swale, but the reverse occurred. The dirt is high in the middle and drains to the edges. The ordinance test of not draining . onto your neighbor is also violated here. I've walked the East side of this property and there is no swale to keep it from draining onto neighboring property. Now let's look at another flagrant ordinance violation and abuse of neighbors. Some citizens are concerned.that they might flood because of~neighboring fill dirt. Our home site did flood on a regular basis. That lake you see is our 5 acre home site on Lomax School Rd. It is some of the .highest ground in Lomax and did not flood when we bought it. The flooding was caused by the Illegal dam installed to the West by the same group that has the feed lot City permitted for unlimited #s of animals on our South property line. Eor years they have brought in truck loads of sand and dirt and have never applied for a fill dirt permit and continue to violate the City ordinance as they build up their~land to drain onto ours. I have shown you this and you have done nothing. And to add insult to injury, your proposed fill dirt ordinance attempts to cover up for this abuse by allowing people like this to~ bring in up to 5 truck loads of fill every 6 months without any requirements. When fill• dirt is used to increases elevation to drain onto another citizens property or to dam the natural flow of water; the result is the same, whether it is SO loads at once or SO~loads spread. over 5 years. The proposed ordinance is -ambiguous and. vague on this point, and would allow the City's good~~ole boy system . to continue to abuse property owners as I've just shown you. This is~ not just and it points out that this City's system of special favors for City insiders is still operating.. I will no longer tolerate this abuse and I will hold personally responsible those that abide this cover up, and the arrogant, crooked good `ole boy system that produced it. I have an ordinance 2646 question for you personally Mr. Malone. Was the owner of 11306 N L given special City favors because he is chairman of the City's Board of Injustice and also one of your old cronies? , : . Thank You for Your Consideratign. .. , . Bill Scott ,, '~` . 1 i~ •