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c - <br /> 285 <br /> t <br /> MINUTES <br /> JULY 19, 1982 <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in a joint public hearing <br /> with the Orange County Planning Board adjourned from July 8, 1982, to this <br /> time and place .July 19, 1982, at 7:30 P.M. in the Superior,.­Courtroom, Orange <br /> County Courthouse, Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br /> 6 Commissioners present:' Chairman Richard E. Whitted, and Commissioners <br /> Shirley E. Marshall and Don Willhoit. <br /> Commissioners absent: Commissioner Norman Gustaveson and Norman Walker. <br /> Planning Board Members present: Pat Crawford, Chair, and Sara Boericke, <br /> Logan Irvin., John Kizer, Nancy Laszlo, Hazel Lunsford, John Wilson and David <br /> Shanklin. <br /> Planning Board Members absent: Tom Bacon and Alice Gordon. <br /> Chairman Richard E. Whitted called the meeting to order announcing that it <br /> was a public hearing adjourned from July 8, 1982, to receive evidence from <br /> - and to question Mr. Bruce Matthews, Airport Development Specialist, North Carolina <br /> Department of Transportation, Division of Aviation, on the Special Use Permit <br /> Request from the Buck Mountain Development Corporation. <br /> Mr. Matthews was present and was sworn in by Commissioner Whitted. Mr. <br /> Matthews said that, rather than make a formal statement or presentation to the <br /> Boards, he would respond to questions the members might have. <br /> Planning Board member Kizer: Said that one of the questions was of flight <br /> operations estimated per airplane per year using data derived from Horace Williams <br /> Airport /-Clerk's note: Hereafter abbreviated as HWA7 and if the estimates <br /> could be considered reasonable given the fact that HWA "presumably has restricted <br /> operations." Mr. Kizer asked if those estimates were "conservative or pretty <br /> indicative of an airport this size." <br /> Mr. Matthews: Replied that if his memory were correct the estimates were <br /> 500/operations per plane per year, and that if based on the HWA data, were repre- <br /> sentative of historical data in this area. He said the figures may err on the <br /> conservative side but "probably not a whole lot." He said that his research of <br /> airports around the state ranged from a low of 135 operations/per plane per year <br /> to 1800 operations per/plane per year and that HWA data were used because Mr. <br /> Mehler wished to use HWA data. He said the flight training operations were in <br />