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141 up the overall objection the people had. In addition, if we look at the rural buffers projected on that map, we see that we are in effect making a strip by putting, not a node, but I 'd like to think of them as seeds, a seed at New Hope, a seed at Blackwood and a seed at Whitfield and although they are drawn as nicely defined circles there will be enormous pressure for those so-called nodes to link as time goes on. For sure you will have strip development going north from Chapel Hill and remember at the same time that Hillsborough is coming south so that these concepts of transition zones spreading out or well-defined activity nodes are more likely to lead to a disappearing buffer rather than a transitioning buffer. The idea of an industrial node centered at an interstate interchange at first examination seems to make a lot of sense; however, when you look at the services that are available at that node and you realize there is no sewer available, no water available and that the secondary roads that are serving it both in terms of New Hope and 86, are inadequate to support any major traffic flow, you begin to see the irrationality in our view of taking what is effectively a rural buffer that is adequately serving residential needs and turning it into an industrial node that will probably attract one or two isolated occupants that will be just enough to destroy the land for residential use and not enough to provide the real impetus to the node for which it is designed. " George Woodgates, a resident of Barrington Hills, noted he wished to go on record as being opposed to the industrial park at Calvander and a great deal of the planning that has taken place, including the garbage dump. He made the following statement: "I 'd like to call attention to one or two things in terms of planning. The first that was raised, 'who is behind this planning and the need for this industrial park? ' We have Food Lion, we have the new Plantation Acres which was put in; somebody must have conned the planning commission into development of those two areas. They are not full, they are not fully occupied and used; the Food Lion that is up on Weaver Dairy Lane has lots of property around it that hasn't been used, but somebody, somehow has told the planning commission that we need more industrial land to be used and it is coming at a high price. Now there was a planning commission in 1977 and I want to quote to you from the records from this Land Use Plan of Carrboro for 1977 to the year 2000. They have about four alternate plans for the development of Carrboro rather than talk toward Calvander, I 'd like to talk to you people who make up Carrboro environs. They had four plans. The wildest one of these was to expand the plan which they have in here in which they thought they could consider thirty eight acres for commercial and sixty acres for industrial. There' s 155 acres planned at Calvander to say nothing about some of the other planning that is there and that which was included in Plantation Acres and also Food Lion, etc. Somebody is able to really to talk this Planning Board or whoever the people who are concerned into it, that industry is more important than the citizens rights, and the homes and families and the things that they have here. Number 2 , in terms of employment, we don't have an employment need here; I think it is 3% here in Carrboro. To say that we have to provide employment to bring these people in here for employment is begging the question. We're going to draw people in here who then of course add more things and more things to it. That's not an argument that is valid. The third one, which I think is the biggest one to consider is, in terms of taxes, any increase in the tax base and I 'm quoting, 'would be