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138 very expensive road to bring all of those people from I-40 into Carrboro. If you are not in a good location the only way you'll get a plan in N.C. is to give major tax concession. You've got to buy your plan. You have to get down on your knees in competition with other towns when you are that far from an interstate and give away the sewer to get the plan so why do you want it in the first place when you've got a lousy location. You don't have much labor. Why do you want to spend money to help unemployed textile workers from Mebane and further west. Then there is a residential area of high density which is at a position where it will take the most in the way of sewers and the most in the way of water and the most in the way of road construction. My property which is on Homestead Road at the corner of Drew Lane is classified on this map as urban residential. That whole subdivision is classified as one-acre zoning. With the covenants on the land, it can never be developed that way. If you look at that area from Lake Hogan Farm Road almost to the Calvander intersection, all of that property is already developed along the road so the only way you can get more density in that area is by breaking up the existing home pattern. Therefore, I would request that all of the land from Lake Hogan Farm west until you reach the potential commercial properties at the corner of Old 86 and Homestead Road be left under the existing zoning because that breaks up the character of the entire neighborhood. The plan calls for multiple retail areas which to me is ' strip city' . If you are going to have to have any retail areas they should be kept close to the intersection and not spread out over several different areas. We're not after the Durham/Chapel Hill Highway. With all of these, what I think, are careless and thought- less parts of the plan, I would request that the County Commissioners a) not grant extra-territorial rights to the Carrboro Planning Board at this time and hopefully not until hell freezes over and that the Commissioners require that the map be more carefully drawn to represent the existing nature of the existing residential areas and that means more hearings. " Judson Edeburn, Duke Forest Resource Manager, presented a prepared statement which is attached to these minutes. John Mackowiak, spoke representing the small community located on New Hope Church Road between the I-40 Interchange and Old 86. He noted that the families in this area were unanimously opposed to the previously drawn light industrial zone indicating a petition was to be presented by a later speaker. He felt that these people would favor the revised plan which has this zone removed. Hugh Wilson spoke expressing concerns with traffic safety around the Calvander area noting that industrial uses would only create more traffic hazards. He noted that he felt industrial uses do not belong in such an area to create jobs that are not needed for the immediate area. He felt this would increase tax problems as well as increase the need for services, noting that Northern Orange County is the area where employment is needed. He felt that the benefits to Carrboro would be far less than the problems which would be created. Jeff Collins spoke as a resident and homeowner in Northwood Subdivision as well as a representative of the Northwood Homeowners Association noting that Northwood is located in the middle of the activity node at Eubanks Road and I-40. He expressed concerns with the types of industry included in light industrial noting that he is still unclear as to what these involve. He continued that he had not