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think that it is a density that is certainly compatible with the adjacent R-1 and R-2 uses. It is a plan that will provide significant good for the county with a minimal amount of disruption and harm. They trust that the County will agree with them and they thanked the County for their time and attention. QUESTIONS AND/OR COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS Mr. James Singleton asked everyone who is a citizen of Orange County to stand. Those in attendance who were citizens of Orange County stood. He asked them to stand because he recently received a pamphlet in the mail which stated that the Board of County Commissioners is the one body representing all Orange County citizens. The people who just stood are the people who elected the Board of Commissioners. They are the people that the Commissioners represent. None of the developers stood at that particular moment. The reason they are here is that someone wishes to develop an open piece of property. That is the American way. The developers are here for one purpose, and one purpose only, greed. That is the same reason he himself is here. They are here to make money and he is here to try to protect the value in his property. They say to the Commissioners, through a licensed appraiser, that it is not going to affect the adjacent properties. He spoke to a licensed appraiser, who is also a professional realtor and a member of the County Commissioners in another County. His comment was that there is absolutely no way that a sane person would believe that it is not going to affect his property. It will significantly affect his property. Quite frankly, he is in favor of that piece of property being developed. He has said in open meetings that this development is beautiful. They have done a marvelous job - for Asbury Park, N.J. or Teaneck, but not Hillsborough. We do not need as compact a situation as we've got here. He has been in a number of places where beautiful neighborhoods existed in communities. He has never seen a community be designed to go into a neighborhood, however, until this one. Also, in previous sessions, the gentleman did say that none of these amenities would be available to the neighbors. That was stated back in July. What we have here is a designed community in which the residents will be of white, socio-economic stature, living in like ticki-tacki houses all in a row, what we have here is Orange County's first planned ghetto. If you read Webster's Dictionary, a ghetto is defined as an area in which a similar socio-economic group of people live. That's a ghetto and that's what we have here - a planned ghetto. A very nicely planned one, but a ghetto non-the-less. How will this affect his property. Quite frankly, very, very much. You are talking about $110,000 to $25,000 houses of approximately 1,100 square feet. He pointed out that the visitor area of the courtroom was approximately 1,100 square feet. We are talking about 240 houses of that size being dropped down to one very small area. That will affect the whole area. When you get that many people trying to leave two exits at the same time in order to get to work, there will be major problems on those two streets. No sane person can look at that and say that you can get that many people out of there between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. without a major calamity. We used to call it the "accident de jour" down on Lawrence Road and US 70 where he lives, because on Saturday in the summer he would hear them coming over the hill, slamming on the brakes, and going straight through the intersection without being able to stop. It happens roughly about twice a month. He is not against developing the Q:\19981123.doc®