July 21 Planning Board

July 21, 2009 To The Aurora Planning Board: In order to correct inaccuracies and to refute some of the falsehoods that are contained in the June 10, 2009 Aurora Planning Board Minutes, I insist that this letter be read aloud at your August 2009 meeting and be officially entered into the minutes of that meeting. The Minutes of June 10, 2009, that were approved by your board, state: Another question was raised regarding lights on the Holland property that shine directly onto the Koepp/Place home. That statement is an egregious lie. • • • • • • •

There are no lights on the Holland property “that shine directly onto the Koepp/Place home.” We have three, very small, 50 watt, low-voltage, “Down Lights”, in the trees by our dock. Those trees are situated approximately 50 feet away from the Koepp/Place home. The lights are positioned in trees at the floor level of the Koepp/Place “ground floor.” The lights are aimed almost directly down. They are aimed down at the ground. They are aimed down at the ground because the sole purpose of the lights is to illuminate the stairs and entrance to our dock.

The approved minutes also include a statement by Andrew Fusco: ...... Fusco stated that to aim lights at a person 24/7 for spite, is wrong, even if the lights have a permit. And that this is a trespass and a nuisance, and a matter to be handled by the State Police. This is an outrageous and deplorable public accusation Fusco has made here, based only on the false and partisan information that he has been given, presumably by Koepp/Place and the Zwigards. Fusco has made no effort to contact us about this

matter, nor has he bothered to view the situation first hand. What Fusco has stated publicly in the June 2009 minutes - as fact - is completely false. What he claims to know of our purpose in having those lights is a wrongful and arrogant assumption. He has no right to claim he knows our intent, because he has never discussed the matter with us. In addition, Fusco needs to be corrected on another matter. According to Fusco, we have an “application pending” for a fence. In fact, our fence application was approved by the CPP, as required by village law, November 5, 2008. Sincerely,

Laura Holland