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000003 distributed at the meeting tonight. Most of the opposition has come from surrounding property owners. Orange County Health Department and Town of Hillsborough Planning Board have also expressed opposition. Tom Chandler, President of Chandler Concrete Company, made the following presentation: His operation has been in Hillsborough since 1972. At that time, other surrounding businesses and mobile home parks were not in the area. He was contacted in August of 1984 about the availability of land adjoining his tract. He noted that he was led to believe that the property was already in the Land Use Plan as commercial property. Nothing was done with the property until January 1985. At this time, representatives of DEM visited the site and informed Mr. Chandler that they had received a report that acid was being used and present in the runoff from this property. DEM did find high acidity levels and from that point on. Chandler was told to take steps to control the flow of the water that was coming from the washing out of the trucks. Chandler asked for assistance from DEM and forms were sent to apply for permits. These permits have been filed with DEM in Raleigh. A permit was issued by Soil and Erosion for grading and clearing of land and a firm was hired to do this grading, slope the land and put in the ponds. At the time Chandler was notified that the property could not be used for the purpose of parking the vehicles, so parking was stopped. Mr. Chandler continued that when he put the grading plan into effect, a gravel drive was constructed that comes out onto SR 1710. This drive would give much better visibility and safer access due to the fact that the current exit is in a curve. This new entrance has been blocked and is not being used in accordance with ruling by the Planning Department. Chandler felt justified in applying for the amendment to the LUP by several factors as follows: The criteria given to him when he first talked to Planning Department Members indicated justification for asking for the amendment because: 1. there was adjoining land and the company would not be expanding the use more than 10 acres; 2. company has been in area for 13 years, belonging to the Chamber of Commerce and felt that they have been good corporate citizens in their support of area projects such as school projects and United Way, 3. company has 18 employees and 15 ready-mix trucks; which have brought payroll taxes and sales tax and property tax into Orange County. Mr. Chandler continued by addresing the runoff problem. He explained that the concrete remover used to clean the trucks does contain muriatic acid but when mixed with concrete dust will be neutralized. If he is allowed to continue to use the ponds on the property he can set up the reclaiming system he needs to separate the sand and stone from the slurry. The lime would then settle out and could be used for application to agricultural lands. Gordon inquired if Mr. Chandler would like to address the Locational Criteria as referred to by Bell. Chandler responded that he felt the land was well suited to the Ten Year Transition plan, there was water to the property, it is not in the 100-year floodplain, the land slopes are no problem, it has good access both by road and railroad, is only a few minutes from center of Hillsborough, it is no threat to plants or animals, with no bad effect on forestry or agriculture and it is already in the transition area between urban and rural areas. Gordon inquired about changing conditions. Bell explained this step again. Chandler's response to this was the changes were commercial as the