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143 whose families had for generations lived in the area and wished to keep it residential. Using the maps, Ms. Bristol indicated locations of individual properties and explained the need for preservation of the forest lands and homelands. She expressed concern that property owners like herself wished to leave the homes to their families and have the community remain as residential. Larry Reid noted that the same serious concerns regarding the landfill had already been expressed by previous speakers. Alternative methods of handling garbage, rather than use of landfills, need to be found. He continued as follows: "The second item I would like to speak on is the possibility or the proposal that Carrboro and the Town of Chapel Hill has had about dividing my community by using Rogers Road as a dividing line for the municipalities to create their jurisdictional range. I wish that that line be drawn through an area that would not break a community in half. " Mr. Reid expressed a concern that plans were being made for properties without input from the owners and that "officials were elected to represent, not dictate" . Bob Bonar, resident of New Hope Church Road community, presented a petition with 19 names to add to those previously entered, and noted that he was pleased that the rural buffer is to be retained for the I- 40/New Hope Church Road interchange. He noted that with the substantial amount of environmentally sensitive areas and lack of water and sewer, it is hard to understand why this area was chosen for office/institutional and industrial uses. "It appears that the only reason it was chosen is because I-40 is there. " He stated he felt it is very important "now and in future years that the County consider other aspects of the appropriateness of the land around I-40 and its interchanges, that we not automatically assume that because DOT put the highway through this particular point, we must therefore have non-residential uses. You do not expand improved tax base by designating an area for non- residential use when it is not really suited for that purpose. " Gary Saleeby stated he felt it clear that light industrial use that allows such things as rock quarries at New Hope Church Road interchange would be inappropriate as well as a rural buffer around this interchange. He felt the reaction was based on fear. A balance of uses would be appropriate such as office/institutional, light industrial (specify carefully what this could be) for the convenience of residents traveling I-40 to places of employment such as the Research Triangle Area. Carmine Prioli, a Stoneycreek resident, noted that Stoneycreek residents wished to keep the New Hope Church Road interchange as a rural buffer area. He indicated he had a list of many facts to prove the reasons for keeping this as a rural buffer. He expressed thanks that this industrial node had been removed from the plan and wished it to remain so. Steven Garfunkel, a resident of Barrington Hills noted two concerns about the Calvander Industrial node. 1) the concern that he lives near where the road dead ends and pressure would sometime in the future be such to carry this road on through into another residential area which would severely change the character of the neighborhood, and (2) the implications of placing an industrial node in an area so out of character. It is particularly troublesome since