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Regular City ('oullcil Mcet illg May (" 2004 Page (, and low income depressed areas out there, which has been added since then. Ms. Redus said that she likes living in West Paris and thought it was a good place to live. Ms Redus gave the City Council Members handouts. Ms. Redus stated that she worked 36 and one-half years to get what she has got. She said she and her husband bought four acres and in two summers, they cleared the land, and she understands that someone that wants ajob and she understands a better Paris, but she did not think that this is a better way to better west Paris. Ms. Redus did not want someone to have a job at her expense. She felt that this is going to lower the property value that she has, and something that you have here is what the handout from the Dallas Morning News describes they are fighting on pollution. Ms. Redus said they were fighting right now on pollution over there and it said that some of the Dallas residents complain about the noise, exhaust, idle vehicles, trucks near their homes, and they are looking at ways to control idling because of air quality and noise impact on residential areas. She stated that when the big rigs idle for a long period of time they put off a tremendous amount of the ozone. Ms. Redus stated that this was harmful to the elderly people with lung problems and she did not think they needed to bring another problem to Paris. If you have a truck stop it should be out on the highway, out in the open, not in a residential area. Ms. Redus said they have not been against the bank coming to West Paris, the Dollar Store, or True Value. She advised that they need a supermarket bad in this area, and they would not be up here lighting the Counci 1 if one tries to come in. They want something that wi II not cause pollution and crime that goes on out there. Ms. Redus said as iar as the taxes that would come from this, if you count 40 lots in Parc Quest, and it is her understanding, she was guessing, $100.00 a year on those $120,000.00 homes and it will be as much taxes as you would be getting from the truck stop. If this happens, she said nobody is going to want to buy those lots out there. Shc stated that she has one tì-iend that lives in Park Quest that paid $120,000.00 for her homc and this truck stop is going to be in her back yard, she is going to have to listen to trucks idling, the pollution, the cattle trucks pulling in out there, the fl ies, and this lady cannot prohibit all of that. Ms. Redus said that is the reason that she is against the truck stop and would appreciate the City Council voting against it.