Notes from Linda Barr Meeting With City Planner Eric Gage


 * I met with Eric Gage this morning and was favorably impressed with him. He seemed to listen respectfully to my concerns and appeared to be very interested in how the community feels about it.  He said that if people send emails to him regarding their concerns and/or objections he will print out the emails and put them into the file folder for future review.  He said that "snail mail" will work too, and the letters will be put into the file.


 * He stressed that the drawings he now possesses are conceptual only which means that this project proposal is simply that, a proposal at this point. It is not actually an application.  He will explain all that Wednesday night.  He did say that he will be very interested in hearing how Mr. Futrell plans to landscape the area in such a way as to make his houses invisible from the spa.  He pointed out that although he said that this is how he will mitigate the visibility of his project, he in no way gave any specifics.  Eric agreed with me that trees and shrubs take a long while to grow so he would like to know what he is planning to plant, how many, what size, and where.


 * He suggested that I may want to put the concerns that I expressed to him this morning, in writing, and get them in to him right away: [mailto:egage@srcity.org Eric Gage, City Planner]