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i ~'~ that it is extremely important that we also talk about protecting the watershed up around the upper Eno Creek which is important for research purposes and also important for recreation purposes in Duke Forest. JONATHAN HOWES Member of the Chapel Hill Town Council A11 of us really appreciate the thoughtful comments which have been offered here tonight. I was unable to attend the meeting in November at Culbreth Jr. High School. It seems to me that the comments offered tonight are at least equal to the quality of planning which has been represented on stage tonight which you have heard. It is a very good and solid piece of planning work and the kind of thoughtful comments that you have offered in response to it will get an .appropriate response from those of us who sit on the governing boards as well as the planning boards and the others who are involved so T do want to thank all of you for your deep and considerable involvement in this process and we look forward to continuing that. CAROLE CRUMLEY I am a Professor of Anthropology at UNC and an Orange County resident for nine years and ~I live about three quarters of a mile from where you are sitting. I also serve on the citizens task force for solid waste management. My concerns have to do with some of my interests and expertise in regional analysis and cultural ecology and in geology which I have studied for fifteen years or so. The Land Use Plan has offered us a very interesting rationale for its employment in various directions from Chapel Hill. I'm not very sure we have heard very many of the assumptions which underlie that plan. That's extremely bothersome to me. All of us can offer rationales for our activities and few of us without a great deal of reflection I think can offer up what the underlying assumptions are but we would like to see some of those underlying assumptions be not only the natural environmental questions that you might expect me as an archaeologist and geologist to be interested in which concern very explicitly the natural environment but also a number of cultural aspects which supposedly were reached by the questionnaire that many of you very kindly filled out. We heard about the questionnaire but we did not hear the results from the questionnaire. At least, I did not hear the results of the questionnaire but perhaps you did. I'm concerned that in a rush to accommodate growth in this area that the ranking of priorities which might otherwise have been undertaken has been brushed aside and that they are being brushed aside tonight. We've not heard exactly what the priorities were which determine the manner in which all of those lines and colors got drawn on those maps. We see the maps and they are beautiful indeed and I appreciate the amount of effort they took because I have done much the same things myself. What I'm trying to say, is we still don't know what kind of things that guided the decisions that were made to put those colors and lines where they are. I know that the accommodation of growth is a major concern of the people who are employed by the Town of Chapel Hill and the Town of Carrbora and the County of Orange and I understand as a colleague of yours in many cases the kinds of things you are up against. What 2 want you to do for the public is to expose your assumptions for us. I want to know exactly what is the most important, what is the next mast important and so on. The -.::~'.