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Town of Hamburg Planning Board Minutes June 3, 2026 worth noting, and you can see the great concern here. My neighbors from the surrounding area have been here before, as well, in front of the Planning Board. I do not know if any of you were there at the time, my guess is the last time was just before COVID, maybe seven years ago and I think that is important to note. We have been in this property for 23 years and this is my second time here. For most of those 23 years, this property has been on and off the market. When you do a quick Google search, you’ll see that the earliest listing was 2008 all the way up to currently, there is a ‘For Sale’ sign in front by Hunt Real Easte with the listing agent as Bucky Gleason. Throughout that period, according to Zillow, it was on the market seven different times and removed from the market four different times. The lowest listed price was $999,000 in 2013 and again in 2016. For the most part it has been over a million dollars. Right now, it is listed at 1.5 million to the best of my knowledge. When we were before the Planning Board previously, as I stated maybe seven years ago, the owner had received an offer from a physician to set up a therapeutic kind of camp where she would have had patients coming in using the pool. There’s also a stable where she hoped to give equestrian lessons for therapy. That got voted down because it would have required a zoning change and as you I am sure you all know it is zoned R1. The time before that, we were here again fighting a zoning change. That proposal was extremely professional. Days before the Planning Board meeting, we received a binder done by a party planning company who obviously wanted to have weddings and other outdoor events, using both the house and the grounds. Obviously, the grounds being 7 or 8 acres, one would think could handle it. However, in that particular proposal, the potential buyers had already met with the Highway Department and proposed ingress and egress, which would have involved extending a turning lane for ingress off of Route 5 and also egress onto Route 5 or out a private road onto Durham. The average rate of a building lot in Hamburg is $340,000 and when you times that by four you get $1,360,000 which is back to the million-dollar asking point. My neighbors and my husband have expressed our extreme concern, and I invite any of you to come over to our home. I cannot speak for the neighbors but come to see how unique these properties are-they are true treasures. When you pull off of busy Route 5 or busy Camp Road you are literally stepping into another world with mature trees. We have spent a small fortune trying to preserve this property, it is irreplaceable. The woodwork is irreplaceable; they are all irreplaceable and as the neighbors have said they are the entry to Hamburg right now. So many of our biggest estates have been knocked down and as you know, these are irreplaceable properties. I would also ask you to ask yourselves, wherever you might live, how would you feel if very couple of years your neighbor was planning development 10