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2 1 Over the last few years, the County and MI homes have had several discussions about 2 a cost share agreement for an access road. The map shows it as Road A. It is an east to west 3 road, which begins at Old NC 86 and straddles the property line of MI homes and Twin Creeks. 4 When the road was proposed in 2005, it was before the Ballentine subdivision and there had 5 not been discussion about extending the road to the east. After the master plan was adopted 6 and the subdivision came into being, the proposed road came into focus. 7 Mayor Chilton said that his recollection is that the Town's connector road policy had 8 called for a connection from Lake Hogan Farms Road to Eubanks Road for many years. 9 Dave Stancil said that for the north/south road, the master plan discussions did include 10 Lake Hogan Farm Road Extension. 11 Mayor Chilton said that this plan is more than 15 years old and it sounded like Dave 12 Stancil was saying that the Town had only recently become involved to require that there would 13 be a connection from Lake Hogan Farm Road north to Eubanks Road. He said that this has 14 been part of the plan for 15-20 years or more. He said that his recollection was that the road 15 would go through the middle of the property that Orange County bought. It was only some time 16 after the County bought it when he raised the question that the road should go to the east. His 17 understanding was that the Town of Carrboro had planned for this property to be a mixed use 18 development. Instead the County bought the property, took it off the Carrboro tax rolls, and 19 came up with the plan for a park and school site. 20 21 Michelle Johnson arrived at 7:21 PM. 22 23 Mayor Chilton said that he is frustrated that it seems that the County is trying to say that 24 the Town is only now mentioning a road when the County knew about it a long time ago. He 25 said that the County is saying that the Town is not doing economic development but this is not 26 true. He said that it is a little galling to hear the County complain about the notion of paying for 27 a bridge at taxpayer expense to go across this creek when the Town's plans had always called 28 for the private sector to pay for this. The Town's plan was for the private sector to be building 29 some diversification into the tax base through a mixed use development on this site. 30 Commissioner Gordon said that there are two road issues here. One issue concerns a 31 road that goes to the east and crosses the creek. With respect to the second issue, she said 32 that when it was decided to build a school on the northern part of this property, they wanted the 33 road to go more to the east, around the school property rather than through it. However, there 34 was still a plan to have a north-south road. 35 Frank Clifton said that the real issue is that if MI Homes will or will not build a part of the 36 road or the Town does not approve the development, this will affect the building of the park. 37 Mark Chilton said that it is outrageous that the Town had a plan for economic 38 development for this property but the County bought the property. He said that one of the 39 County Commissioners, who is no longer on the Board, had the intention of preventing the 40 Town's economic development plan from moving forward. 41 Frank Clifton said that if MI Homes does not go forward with the development of the 42 road, then the park is on hold until there is an access road. If it cannot be dealt with, then there 43 needs to be a redesign. 44 Mayor Chilton said that it was not his decision that the County buy this property that 45 would need a connector road. He said that the County government frustrated the plans of the 46 Town of Carrboro and now the County government is returning to the Town of Carrboro and 47 saying that it cannot afford to frustrate the Town's plans the way it planned to do when the 48 property was purchased. 49 Alderman Slade asked about the issue.