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~a ~ ~.~~_~_ .~~• •~ ~1 ~~ ~ \R'~ TO~YN OF CHAPEL HILL •306 NORTH Coccn~su STEtEEt CH~eL Hu.L, NORTH CAROt.nYA 27516 Or~tcs of txs IvlwYOtt ~ (919) 968-2714 July 13, 1999 FAX 919-967-saos Dr. Alice Gordon, Chair Board of Orange County Commissioners Post Office Box 8181 Hillsborough, NC 27578 Dear Alice: Thank you for your letters of June 22, Juty 2 and 7. I think they demonstrate how close we are to agreement now, after literally years of work. First, I believe I am able to accept for the Town Council the changes the Board has proposed, as defined in your July letters. They are consistent with the consensus reached by the Town Council earlier. In the same spirit I would like to request that the Board consider three other changes which are also, I believe, consistent with the spirit of our previous discussions. The Commission's draft of July 2 does not include language regarding. a deed restriction on the 60 acres of the Greene tract that would be used by the County for solid• waste management purposes. I would request that such language be added to the agreement. • It would be possible to .write the restriction so that it would be effective only as Iong as the zoning is effective that would allow solid waste uses, exclusive of burial of mixed solid waste and construction and demolition waste. I.include below our suggested wording, added to the wording in the June 30 draft of the agreement approved by the Board: "5. The Greece Tract wiII remain a landfill asset... Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the County (the "Greene Tract Owners") will transfer to the County title to that portion of the Greene Tract described on Exhibit E, which contains approximately sixty acres. The County may use the property described on the Exhibit E for System Purposes.. The County states its current intention not to bury mixed solid waste or construction and demolition waste on