New numbering system is too cumbersome

Editor,

Lake County is trying to increase our safety by shortening the response time of emergency and law enforcement personnel. If every location in the county has a unique house number and road number, the 911 dispatch computer can guide the emergency personnel directly to the scene.

This effort will require some readdressing and that started this week when I and many of you received a letter asking us to submit a list of new names for the road we live on.

The letter was offensive and presented a plan that looks like it will require much more readdressing than should be needed for a "state-of-the-art" system. There should be no need to lose our historically significant road names just because they are longer than 12 characters.

If duplicates aren't allowed, which town gets to keep "Main Street?"

If some duplicates are allowed, why not others? If the system can convert road names to location coordinates, why can't it convert existing house numbers to location coordinates?

Will this system really make us safer if our volunteer QRU and fire personnel, who don't have computers on their dash boards, get a radio call sending them to an address with a road name they have never heard of before?

As citizens and taxpayers we don't have to blindly follow this plan.

The best 911 Enhancement is one that minimizes any readdressing. If the county commissioners want our cooperation on this project, they have a lot of questions to answer and they had better improve their sales effort.

Robert S. Rosso

Rollins