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City Council Meeting November 9, 2000 Page 10 that we are talking about long term consequences for the City of Paris. She again stressed that one public hearing was not enough. Ms. Lewis urged the City Council to hold another public hearing on this subject. Mark Rothfuss, 2810 Willow Bend, also came forward again stating that he did notwant anyone in the room to misconstrue that the Archer's for Christ, or any other group that is present want to exclude other citizens of Paris to the use of that land. Mr. Rothfuss stated that they encourage people to come out, and they wanted them to develop bike trails and have it available for everyone. He said what they are asking for is that the natural state of that area be undisturbed. Mr. Rothfuss pointed out that everyone in the room is defensive about commercial development because that is the rumor, and further pointed out that everyone in this room does not have resources that a developer has at his disposal, including the Realtors in this town who can put them away in a heartbeat by buying this land, and that is why you see the attitudes that are coming forth tonight. He said there is a lot of money at stake. The developers have the money where their groups do not, and that is why he is present representing this group. The point is, they want the Lake Crook property left alone. He stated that if the city wants to develop it for the children, they encourage and support that, and they are not trying to make themselves look like a special interest group. Earl Bell, 180 Deer Valley, appeared before the City Council again asking where are the other citizens, and wanted to know why they were not present tonight. He said if they were really interested in developing the lake property, where are they? No one else appeared and the public hearing was declared closed. Terry Brannon with the C. T. Brannon Corporation came forward again stating that when he came to Paris to be interviewed for this project with the City Manager, City Attorney, and the Public Works Director, they went over the project including the history of Lake Crook and the area. He stated that he wanted to assure those in the audience that he was not given any directions from any member of the city staff in any way. He said he was given factual information of the history of the lake. He was told that there were people in town that were interested in preservation of the lake as it is, and he was told that there were people in town that were interested in development of the lake,