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take control of Calvander to enjoy the pleasure of our company. It would really be a shame for Carrboro to get control of us and destroy our countryside and farm land, or planning new land uses in order to annex it like they did Barrington Hills. That is exactly what they would do in order to increase their tax base and double our taxes. What would we get in -eturn? Nothing, except the privilege of living inside the Carrboro city limits. I can remember when the Tripp property to Barrington Hills was aural residential but in Carrboro's planning and zoning jurisdiction. I don't blame people like Mrs. Tripp for selling her property, because, the Carrboro government was worrying the poor lady half to death trying to take it from her for a park. Barrington Hills residents tried every way to keep Carrboro from involuntarily annexing them, but Carrboro took them anyway. Now they are working their way out to Calvander. My parents and I have no fond memories of our dealings with Carrboro officials in years past. About l0 years ago Carrboro had planned, unknown to us, to condemn the service station building and surrounding land and take it for a place to build a proposed future fire station. A friend who happened to be in Carrboro or involved in one of the night meetings found out about it and told my parents who hired a lawyer to check it out. Once they found out that we were on to them, they tried to deny everything and .dropped the whole idea. Last year, a neighbor found out, through the grapevine of course, that Carrboro had an industrial park planned for the middle of Calvander, plus all surrounding properties to be rezoned for high density housing which could be 12 to 15 units per acre. We started attending their meetings and finally asked the County Commissioners to call for a public hearing, and we gat rid of the industrial park and the rezoning was cut down to five units per acre. So we've been keeping pretty clpse tabs on Carrboro ever since. I have heard the area referred to as North Carrboro by some Carrboro officials. I think this is putting the cart before the horse. Mayor Porto ;aid a few weeks ago he was trying to look out for the best interests of :~arrboro. Well, we are looking out for the best interests of Calvander and the needs of all Orange County residents. So be a good sport, Carrboro and give up the watershed to the County but don't try to bargain with something you don't have and that is the Calvander community. We are going to fight for what is ours and for many of us our heritage until all the cows came home. Calvander residents are not selfish people as they were referred to on the radio today. - To our elected County officials we strongly urge you to vote against the swapping of the watershed for our right .to be .represented by our elected County officials. Please save us from the clutches of land hungry Carrboro." Ms. Ruby Blackwood presented a statement, a copy of which is filed in the permanent agenda located in the Clerk's Office. Mr. Randy Danziger presented a petition containing more than 100 names of citizens opposed to the land swap. He noted those names were all residents of the Calvander community. He continued that the Calvander residents do endorse anew water supply watershed study and certainly do endorse a rural buffer study. The residents also endorse a uniform zoning and sewer/water policy in the watershed. In particular, they wished to endorse the policy of no water and sewer going into the watershed if the zoning is to be kept at one dwelling unit per 40,000 square feet. He felt that a practical application would be one unit per five acres noting this could be a conservative and safe solution during the two years it will take nor a water quality study to be completed. Mr. Danziger indicated he supports the joint planning process but felt it could only work if all participants were committed. He expressed concern with considering extraterritorial jurisdiction for a body whale