Creekwood Preserve subdivision

Spoke against the 53-home project, calling the traffic study ridiculous and citing school overcrowding, EMS/fire strain, and property-tax increases for neighbors of the $450,000-$500,000 homes.

Asked whether there is any upper limit on home prices or sizes the city would deem incompatible with surrounding neighborhoods.

Said the postage-stamp lots and $450,000-$500,000 homes next to his modest neighborhood will force him and others out through rising property taxes; wants buffer lots to match adjoining lots.

Backs directly onto the site; worried about hundreds of daily car trips and construction traffic on Graham Drive and doubts the gravity sewer will handle the added load.

Said neighborhood children play on Graham Drive daily and that added traffic will force them indoors.

Wants the city to do its own traffic study, called the merge from the base terrifying, and objected to repeated comparisons of her vinyl-sided, lower-priced neighborhood to the new homes; her taxes rose $600 last year.

A 40-year law enforcement officer and crash reconstructionist, he doubts 700 vehicles a day won't affect traffic and wants an unbiased city traffic study; also wants details on the buffer tree planting.