To the editor:

The landowners of rural Douglas County better pay attention to regulations the Planning Commission and County Commission are imposing on them.

The code that changed road frontage requirements to 660 feet before a driveway could enter a public road is ridiculous. Six hundred sixty feet is one-eighth of a mile; 660 feet is two football fields goal to goal, end to end plus 60 feet.

Township driveway culverts are 24 feet to 30 feet in length. County roads are mostly in 70-foot right of way. The requirement of 660 feet frontage eliminates some landowners from building on acreage they have available because the excessive footage requirement land locks their property and puts a large amount of land in hold for the developer.

In the planning stage is a sewage facility south of the Wakarusa River.

Property owners with a long configuration of property and narrow frontage would be devastated if a sewage line following elevation lines paralleled their property.

I believe legislation preventing regulations that land lock property and show special interest favoritism should be established.

Donald Carbaugh,

Lawrence