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• The physical structure section states: `Built structures are a subset of physical ®� structures resulting from construction. These are divided into buildings and nonbuilding structures, and make up the infrastructure of a human society." This division is helpful, as it is similar to how Measure PP divides the world — r.e., into "housing units" and "structures," the implication being that housing and structures are different and separate categories. • So what does Wikipedia tell us "nonbuilding structures" are? "A nonbuilding structure, also referred to simply as a structure, refers to any body or system of connected parts used to support a load that was not designed for continuous human occupancy. The term is used by architects, structural engineers, and mechanical engineers to distinctly identify built structures that are not buildings.s3 The page goes on then to list a variety of examples of structures, including: "roads." So, I agree with Mr. Ritter that when trying to determine what a voter might have been thinking in casting his or her ballot for Measure PP, "common man" sources like Wikipedia provide valuable insight. Wikipedia strongly supports that a road is a structure. Ms. Nancy Allen: What did voters think they would see on hills after Measure PP? Mr. Jack Balch: What do we see when we look at a hillside with a road? What does it take to build a road? No one can truly put himself or herself into the mind of a voter, of course, but I think the fairest and simplest answer to Ms. Allen's question is that Measure PP voters expected to look up at hillsides and ridgelines and see hillsides and ridgelines, rather than development. Which is to say, the voters did not expect to see grading and roads and sidewalks and streetlights and vehicle traffic on hillsides or ridgelines after Measure PP passed. That is inherent in the first words of the Measure: "Ridgelines and hillsides shall be protected." And it is further supported by the citation, in the ballot materials, of "a mile long road spanning the top of many of our Southeast Hills" and the "Happy Valley by-pass road" as the sort of developments that PP would bar. This tips heavily in favor of considering roads as structures. Mr. Balch asked a similar question, and described seeing a road that had a considerable impact on his perception of a hillside. I believe he was referring to the Santos Ranch Road, a picture of which I have attached to this letter. It is true that the Sycamore access road will not look like Santos Ranch. But whether a road is a structure is a binary question that Mr. Balch and Ms. Allen have indicated turns at least in part, in their view, on what folks thought when voting on Measure PP. If voters believed that a significant, obvious hillside road was a detriment (and voted for PP to prevent such roads), then a road is a structure and that remains true regardless of whether a particular road under consideration is large or small. On that last point, though, Mr. Balch also emphasized the amount of earth that needs to be moved and the construction required to build the Sycamore access road into a hillside. 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure#Physic:) structure (emphasis added). �I 3 http://en.wikipedia org/wild/Nonbuildinr structure (emphasis added).