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comprehensive plan is completed. He said that he saw “no controls” on outdoor recreation in the amendments and maintained that, if adopted, the amendments would allow roller coasters by right along with gravity slides. The amendments, if approved, will “really haunt us for a long, long time to come,” Krebser concluded.

Recreation districts and conservation districts “don't seem to be the same thing,” said Stan Thompson, adding that combining the two would be disastrous. In a conservation area, he said, a developer should have to prove that an activity won't harm the environment instead of being allowed to proceed by right.

"We’re dealing here with the single resource we have to support life—our soil,” stated Waldron O’Connor. Land over 14 per cent grade is “particularly vulnerable,” he added. “To combine the terms recreation and conservation is to negate the word conservation," O’Connell maintained.

Dr. William Young noted that the proposed amendments, although clearly aimed at one piece of property, were all in conw

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