This is a tool - a tool designed to eat away at our residential areas.

Barbed wire is not allowed in residential areas.

In both of those areas in which residential customers have been allowed to participate, rates have declined 15 to 20 percent.

In a lot of residential areas, roads are impassable, ... There are just so many thousands of trees down. It's hard to even describe, it's so immense.

You have people who are considering moving to town and they go to the best residential areas and say, 'Is this how they take care of their streets and gutters?'

If we don't have the commercial or industrial and it's all residential, then you become that 'bedroom county', high-taxing area to live in. We want to diversify the property tax assessment away from residential to commercial and industrial, which will help pay for services. Then, growth is good.