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POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS Additional Traffic · Castlegate Drive is 32 foot wide and was designed to collect traffic from further development · In surveying 24 two-bedrcom ,mite that I own, the average vehicles per ,,nit appears to be about 1.5 vehicles per unit. · In a survey of homes in Windsor and S,,rise, the number of vehicles per single.f_~mily ,,nit appears to be greater than 2 vehicles. Also, many s contain one or no vehicles due to use for storage garage - · - to oun marrieds, mature singles, and · Two.f~mily umts typically rent y g - retired couples, with few teenaged drivers and few boats and trailew~ould . Therefore I contend that there will be no more vehicles than there be with 50-feot lots (or even larger lots) · See photos of S,nrtse and Windsor taken late Sunday afternoon when most units are occupied. · Also note the S,nrise Estates is about half two-family and traffic does not seem to be a problem on 42"a NE into S,nrise. Property Value Will Decline '~ ' · S--rise and Windsor each have about 40% two-family or MF ~mits, and prices are increasing. The MF ,,nits were already there when most homes were built in Windsor and did not seem to depress value. · two-family ,,nits will be located beyond the SF ,~nits located on The new Castlegate and will therefore not affect the entry into the SF area. · Two-family zoning exists thruout the northeast sector e.g. Collegiate Drive, Kessler Drive, 25~ NE, and 41~ NE/S, nrise, and property values have increased in all areas. · Perhaps the buyer expects higher density adjacent to our heaviest commercial area. Criminal Activity · · I have been renting houses and duplexes in Pans for 20 years. To my knowledge it is rumored that only one of my tenants was a felon (white- collar crime), and he lease-purchased a new house from me. · There are few teenagers in two-family units so there are few persons walking oxound. · Newer two-falnily ,~nlts are relatively expensive and attract the better tenants, in my experience.