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At least one environmental group, Preserve Calavera, plans to submit written comments. Its leader, Diane Nygaard, has said she has concerns about the way the increase in traffic and other issues will be handled.Reaction from businesses and residents near the ranch was mixed last week. Several businessmen on the western side of El Camino said they expected their cash registers will benefit if there are more homes across the street, but they lamented the loss of open land."Haven't we developed enough?" asked Art Marino, manager of Oasis Nursery & Palms.The leader of the homeowners association for Rancho Carlsbad, a gated senior mobile-home park just south of the ranch, said he was pleased that its developers will pay for a storm drain system to reduce flooding problems.However, he said, Rancho Carlsbad residents will fight the developers' plans to put one of the small housing areas next to their community's northern wall."It's incompatible with our lifestyle," said Bill Arnold, president of the homeowners association.From veggies to palm frondsCarlsbad officials have long said they expected development to come to the rolling hills of Robertson Ranch. They are counting on developers to pay for improvements to parts of College Boulevard and Cannon Road, as - more available