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°Carrboro officials have enough to keep them busy for the next 25 years if <br />they want to clean up their own back yard and stay out of ours. If we <br />wanted to live in their kind. of environment, we would all move to Carrboro. <br />Maybe that would make Carrboro officials happy, for they would not have to <br />take control of Calvander to enjoy the pleasure of our company. It would <br />really be a shame for Carrboro to get control of us and destroy our <br />countryside and farm land, or planning new land uses in order to annex it <br />like they did Barrington Hills. That is exactly what they would do in order <br />to increase their tax base and double our taxes. What would we get in <br />return? Nothing, except the privilege of living inside the Carrboro city <br />limits. Y can remember when the Tripp property to Barrington Hills was <br />rural residential but in Carrboro's planning and zoning jurisdiction. I <br />don't blame people like Mrs: Tripp for selling her property, because the <br />Carrboro government was worrying the poor lady half to death trying to take <br />it from her for a park. Barrington Hi11s residents tried every way to keep <br />Carrboro from involuntarily annexing them, but Carrboro took them anyway. <br />Now they are working their way out to our Calvander. <br />My parents and I have no fond memories of our dealings with Carrboro <br />officials in years past. About 10 years ago Carrboro had planned, unknown <br />to us, to condemn the service station building and surrounding land and <br />take it for a place to build a proposed future fire station. A friend who <br />happened to be in Carrboro or involved in one of the night meetings found <br />out about it and told my parents who hired a lawyer to check it out. Once <br />they found out that we were on to them, they tried to deny everything and <br />dropped the whole idea. Last year, a neighbor found out, through the <br />grapevine of course, that Carrboro had an industrial park planned for the <br />middle of Calvander, plus all surrounding properties to be rezoned for high <br />density housing which could be 12 to 15 units per acre. We started <br />attending their meetings and finally asked the County Commiss~,oners to call <br />for a public hearing, and we got rid of the industrial park and the <br />rezoning was cut down to five units per acre. So we've been keeping pretty <br />close tabs on Carrboro ever since. <br />T have heard the area referred to as North Carrboro by some Carrboro <br />officials. I think this is putting the cart before the horse. Mayor Porto <br />said a few weeks ago he was trying to look out for the best interests of <br />Carrboro. Well, we are looking out for the best interests of Calvander and <br />the needs of all Orange County residents. So be a good sport, Carrboro <br />and give up the watershed to the County but don't try to bargain with <br />something you don't have and that is the Calvander community: We are going <br />to fight for what is ours and for many of us our heritage until all the <br />cows come home. Calvander residents are not selfish people as they were <br />referred to on the radio today. To our elected County officials we <br />strongly urge you to vote against the swapping of the watershed for our <br />right to be represented by our elected County officials. Please save us <br />from the clutches of land hungry Carrboro." <br />5-eCO~tt}-}ewe}-~~A~1-.attempterLin_it@1ri_ ~~~~2318755~ <br />CONTINUED ON PAGE 39 <br />