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Page 30 . Steve - I want to make a couple of things perfectly plain to you, Gerry, as long as this is being recorded. One is, that when you get a building permit that it addresses grading, so that when you do it prior, you did it without any permission whatsoever. Gerry - Whats that now. Steve - Grading - you can do grading on lots as part of the building permit issuance and it can be addressed at that time, for adding fill and stuff like this. Doing it prior to the building permi t is one of the reasons why you have so many problems, because it wasn't addressed period. Otherwise you would have been told not to do half the things that happen here. Also, this pond at the end of Royal Oaks (I want this on the record) so you can't say you never heard it. That pond is a designated water way protected by the Army Corps of Engineers. It looks like a grassy swamp, but it is protected. Any fill that goes in there without their permission, is illegal. They will prosecute so make sure you are careful dumping fill in there. Its the one right there Cliff, behind your office. I want that on record so he can't claim ignorance on that one. Also, I think, what the City did was give us a plan that is accessible on how to correct this. You can see how it is hard for us to sort through what agreement was made with who and who does it. Cliff - You bet! . Steve - So, somewhat you have to watch out for yourself also, and people with trees and stuff like that, I don't anticipate the City, if you have damage to your trees, pursuing that you may have to do that on your own also. Cliff - The biggest issues to on Lots 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 - I just received a call from a gentlemen that owns lot 10 that there were a lot of trees that were buried underneath these soils that were brought in. I know, that on three of them right now there is a lot of trees in there. Before the retaining walls can be built those trees have to be removed otherwise these retaining walls are not going to do any good once those trees start decaying and the soils start falling down. Steve - As per the approval of Deerfield 3rd and 4th, trees can only be buried if part of the approval process through the plat in designated areas that are protected with easements. So any burying of trees on individual lots is prohibited. So that is something else that is on the record! Do not bury any trees in Deerfield 3rd or 4th or any place else in the City, unless you have an approved location. That is something that comes back to haunt somebody ten years later when they put up a garage upon it, no one knows that it is there. Gerry - I'm not aware of any trees being buried. Steve - I guess one guy had pictures of it. pictures. Someone indicated they had . Gerry - For years and years (3 years) we have had a burial area up in the park. Now were burying stuff down in the back of the lot down in Royal Oaks as we have no place to get rid of the stuff. There is a burial area in Royal Oaks. Steve - Was that approved through the platting process, Gerry?