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9 granted and so is the minimum 10-foot setback for my property line it would be cut nearly in half to 5.33 feet. That seems to me to be encroaching on my personal space way too much. It would directly disturb my light, air flow, and view. I have listened to all the back and forth between all the parties involved and I don’t believe the majority of the views have seen the site and the Park Drive loop itself. I wish all of you would take into consideration the families that have been impacted by this building. It’s not that we are opposed to having a structure there, the owner has the right to build at this property. However, he should not be granted any variances for his new building. The building will be adding several more residents and cars to the neighborhood. The loop already struggles with parking and despite with the unofficial traffic survey done, what was reported is not indicative of the traffic we deal with daily, not only by the residents on the loop but by the people that use the loop as a U-turn to get back to Main Street. I will leave you with this, it saddens me that the people that serve this community do not seem to have the residents in their best interest. Please do not grant the variances that allows this cold unaesthetically pleasing building right on our Main Street to go forward. Pick a building within the guidelines that goes with our beautiful town. • Marsha Moore at 3 Park Drive South said she agrees with what her neighbors had to say. I believe this building is not respectable to the existing residents here and I would request that you vote no to the variances of 410 Main Street. • Bill Mills at 11 Park Drive North said he agrees with most of the comments made by his neighbors. This building does not belong in this neighborhood. There is a lot of talks with the planner about what ifs and what should be regarding what the potential location should be and what she felt “a reasonable approach” is. There’s too many “I thinks” and not enough truth. The fact is we don’t need any variances there; we don’t need a building of this scale here. Something more along the line of the scale immediately to the south would make a lot more sense. I don’t expect to get back the farm house that was allowed to fall in disrepair and ultimately be bulldozed but something more in line and something safer. Traffic ordinance is not enforced here, people

don’t expect to get back the farm house that was allowed to fall in disrepair and ultimately be bulldozed but something more in line and something safer. Traffic ordinance is not enforced here, people park in illegal zone, too close to the corners, where it makes it difficult for a car to pass, even more so for emergency vehicles. Overall, this is just unreasonable. There’s talk about the use of mass transit, everyone I know in this neighborhood uses mass transit or used it in the past, and the fact of the matter is we drive to the mass transit to get into the city. The residents overwhelmingly do not welcome this and as the board members representing the resident of the town, I feel it’s your duty to vote no to these variances. • Rachel Mills at 11 Park Drive North said to our representatives the need for so many variances tells you that this building dos not belong in this neighborhood or this town. Affecting negatively the quality of our lives to which we pay very high taxes for. As you are representing us, your consideration will be appreciated. This proposed building, the traffic congestion will be epic when you think of UPS, Amazon, Post Office, all kinds of other deliveries, school buses, and functionality of the garage that is proposed simply blows the mind to try to understand how that will look for the future. We will be very thankful in the future to see how you are representing us. We vote no for this monstrosity of this building. • Steven L at 30 Curtis Avenue said something everyone should be aware of is that this need to be approved. From my understanding of the zoning, this is zoned for commercial use so that means someone can build a store and as long as they within no variances, they can build a dunkin or a 7/11 without needing any of the zoning board approval assuming they are keeping to all the offsets and necessary variances. I think one risk in pushing away this project is if another project comes up that has no variances, it is a lot worse for