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SOUTH BUCKHORN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT Comments from March 12 Community Meeting Efland-Cheeks Community Center • What if property owner wants to do residential development? Residential value of property is being taken away, yet the County is doing anything to get new businesses here, and it will be a long time before the property has any commercial or industrial value. • Water and sewer needs to be extended first. Without it,no development will occur. • Who will pay for water and sewer?In other places, towns and counties pay for extending services to attract industry. We need a plan to develop water and sewer so that businesses will come. • If a good industry were to want to locate in Orange County,then the Board of Commissioners would work to get the water and sewer to the site. • Several property owners indicated that they do not want to see any changes, and want the area to remain residential, and would support changing the Land Use Plan designation to residential so that business would not be allowed at all. • The Board of Commissioners should make NCDOT build retaining walls or other types of buffers to protect adjacent property from the impacts of widening I-85. • Orange County already has high taxes and impact fees. It should go ahead and extend water and sewer so that property owners would get more for their tax money. • Uses such as shopping centers would be good at the interchange of Buckhom and Mt. Willing Roads. This would be compatible with and help residential development farther down West Ten Road. • Property owner with 1400 feet of frontage on I-85 would like to be able to sell to an employer who would pay good wages. • Residents who have lived in the area a long time do not want to see any changes. • Residents need to be able to work near their homes and not travel a long distance into another county to work. • What is Orange County doing to promote economic development? • Will tax value increase if property is rezoned? Would like to see written assurance from Assessor that tax is based on use value,not just on zoning district.