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JOINT STATEMENT OF OPPOSITION TO COMMERCIAL RECYCLING CENTER This statement is made on behalf of and with the complete support of all of the residents and owners of all of the property in the Rolling Wheels Sub- division together with many nearby residents and owners. We are intensely opposed to the development of a commercial recycling facility at the former landfill site. We are not opposed to recycling but we are firmly opposed to an industrial-commercial type recycling business at this location which is surrounded by land that is residential and agricultural and is directly across Natvig Road from a residential development and within eye- sight of considerably more residential property. Approval of a commercial recycling business at this location would typify the negative aspects of spot zoning and show a complete lack of concern for the residents and property owners in the surrounding residential area. No matter how well developed and maintained, a commercial recycling center would look like, be used like, and would have vehicle traffic like a commercial- industrial type operation. Such an operation does not belong in a neighbor- hood where there is now, and the future will bring more, single family residences and residential traffic. The residents of this area have been living with the problems of the land- fill site for many years but have been placated by the statements that the landfill would soon be closed and turned into a park and the reasonable expectation that at that time the quality of that property would be vastly improved. Now they find out that the Town Board is promoting a commercial re- cycling business at the landfill location, which instead of rewarding them for their patience in living with the landfill site would punish them even more severely by placing in their neighborhood a permanent industrial-commercial refuse operation. When the landfill was their problem there always was the knowledge that sometime soon the landfill would be filled, closed and converted to a positive element in the neighborhood. If the commercial recycling business were developed it would involve buildings and other development costs and would be of a permanent nature and there would be no longer hope for future improvement of that property.