ORD-2008-012 - Orange Co Zoning Ordinance -Buckhorn Rd Associates LLC Rezoning

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of our neighbors' shopping malls, then we urge you to reject this proposal and to join the growing number of citizens who understand that a sustainable economy is one moored in the local community and one that starts from the perspective of "think local first." Remarks prepared by Mike Collins, 967-4119, mmcc.collinsCa)_mindspring.com Anthony Corbett: I do confirm that I have been sworn. I am a property owner of 104 Frazier Road in Mebane, N. C. 27302. I would like to have some questions addressed and answered hopefully at this meeting. If this application is approved, what are the expected and/or desired timeline and target dates for start and completion of the proposed Buckhorn Village development and the East mixed use development at the railroad track location? If the quasi- judicial application is approved and the existing residents experience the traffic patterns that would affect them adversely, who would pay for the traffic engineer? I have heard that a traffic engineer would have to be paid by the residents. It was my understanding that the traffic engineer would have to be paid by a resident to survey the traffic, if the traffic was affecting the public adversely. So, who would have to pay for that? I also heard something in regards to the woodlands. What woodlands do you plan to preserve in the proposed Buckhorn Road phase I and subsequent commercial developments. There are woodlands located on the east side of Buckhorn Village. Could I get the specific locations of district I, II, and III? We had a map up there, but I did not see the specific locations of the proposed districts. Chair Jacobs: We can provide a map as part of the public record. The plan also has, as I recall, the instances regarding what woodlands are going to be protected. I think the Planning Director said that in order to provide credible evidence on the adverse impact of traffic, that one (a community or a person) has to hire a traffic engineer after the project is done, and then we have to work with the NCDOT. As far as the timeline, I don't know that anybody has addressed that, but the developer could just state what the timeline is projected for the different phases. John Fugo: I have been sworn and I am one of the development partners. The timeline as we have it now is groundbreaking mid-2010, and completion 4'/z to 5 years later. That is about as specific as we can get at this time. Debra Elmore: I have been sworn in. {t seems that numbers are very important to this committee and to everybody on the Planning Baard and this organization. I just wanted to state that I have been living in Orange County 41 years, and have been living on the property that I now live on, which is at 1015 Buckhorn Road, a stone's throw from this development. This has not been a consideration because we are further down the road from the development. I would have to go past the development to get to my home. I've lived in the home where I'm at right now for 41 years. It was passed down to me from my mother and it was bought by my grandmother in 1938 from, ironically Orange County Board of Education. This development is going to be detrimental to my property. I know that my taxes are going to go through the roof when this development goes in beside my property. Guess what, nobody's going to want to buy my land because it's right beside a mall. I just want this Commission to know that this township where we're located has always been like the stepchild of Orange County because we don't really belong to Mebane, we're in Orange County, so all of a sudden all of these developers are coming in and now we're the golden child of the County because we live in the I-85 corridor. This just upsets me. I want everyone on this committee to know that people's lives are going to change in that community, not just on that corner, but ones that live down the road, on the other side of the road, up the road, and they're all going to change. And I just want you to keep that in consideration when making these decisions.