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could be a development agreement between the Town and County. This was discussed with a very informal letter. Nothing was done further to create an interlocal agreement. Over the last few years, the County and MI homes have had several discussions about a cost share agreement for an access road. The map shows it as Road A. It is an east to west road, which begins at Old NC 86 and straddles the property line of MI homes and Twin Creeks. When the road was proposed in 2005, it was before the Ballentine subdivision and there had not been discussion about extending the road to the east. After the master plan was adopted and the subdivision came into being, the proposed road came into focus. Mayor Chilton said that his recollection is that the Town's connector road policy had called for a connection from Lake Hogan Farms Road to Eubanks Road for many years. Dave Stancil said that for the north/south road, the master plan discussions did include Lake Hogan Farm Road Extension. Mayor Chilton said that this plan is more than 15 years old and it sounded like Dave Stancil was saying that the Town had only recently become involved to require that there would be a connection from Lake Hogan Farm Road north to Eubanks Road. He said that this has been part of the plan for 15-20 years or more. He said that his recollection was that the road would go through the middle of the property that Orange County bought. It was only some time after the County bought it when he raised the question that the road should go to the east. His understanding was that the Town of Carrboro had planned for this property to be a mixed use development. Instead the County bought the property, took it off the Carrboro tax rolls, and came up with the plan for a park and school site. Michelle Johnson arrived at 7:21 PM. Mayor Chilton said that he is frustrated that it seems that the County is trying to say that the Town is only now mentioning a road when the County knew about it a long time ago. He said that the County is saying that the Town is not doing economic development but this is not true. He said that it is a little galling to hear the County complain about the notion of paying for a bridge at taxpayer expense to go across this creek when the Town's plans had always called for the private sector to pay for this. The Town's plan was for the private sector to be building some diversification into the tax base through a mixed use development on this site. Commissioner Gordon said that there are two road issues here. One issue concerns a road that goes to the east and crosses the creek. With respect to the second issue, she said that when it was decided to build a school on the northern part of this property, they wanted the road to go more to the east, around the school property rather than through it. However, there was still a plan to have a north-south road. Frank Clifton said that the real issue is that if MI Homes will or will not build a part of the road or the Town does not approve the development, this will affect the building of the park. Mark Chilton said that it is outrageous that the Town had a plan for economic development for this property but the County bought the property. He said that one of the County Commissioners, who is no longer on the Board, had the intention of preventing the Town's economic development plan from moving forward. Frank Clifton said that if MI Homes does not go forward with the development of the road, then the park is on hold until there is an access road. If it cannot be dealt with, then there needs to be a redesign. Mayor Chilton said that it was not his decision that the County buy this property that would need a connector road. He said that the County government frustrated the plans of the Town of Carrboro and now the County government is returning to the Town of Carrboro and