Ballard Oaks subdivision

Thanked the board on behalf of Ballard Road residents for denying the development and for careful consideration of roads, infrastructure, environment and neighborhood character.

Thanked commissioners for weighing concerns about well water, traffic and environmental issues raised by Ballard Road neighbors.

Thanked the board and detailed concerns about sewage spills, groundwater contamination, clear-cutting and displaced wildlife.

Asked the board to require a full wastewater governance plan and independent environmental review before any vote, and urged denial.

Called the community septic system a 'ticking financial and environmental time bomb' and urged denial until standard infrastructure is proposed.

Said roads can't handle 40 more Ballard Oaks homes plus Iron Gate's 500, cited two community sewage spills this year, and asked for no votes on both.

Presented a folder of research on septic impacts, PFAS, and groundwater monitoring, questioning the 6.6-acre septic field above a watershed near wells.

A neighboring conservation landowner opposed the small-lot density, tree clearing for the septic field, and cut-through traffic risk.

Argued the one-acre minimum should be enforced, not averaged away by the conservation loophole, and asked for a cut-through traffic analysis.

A substitute teacher who fears cut-through traffic endangering children on a road where kids bike and wait for the school bus.

Said daily traffic at Beth Haven already makes school runs risky and asked the board to deny the project over safety and property values.