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t32 Old Fayetteville Road already designated which has not been used and this would be the place to start an industrial park. This is within the Town limits. They also could go up instead of out. He felt the plan indicates a sprawl strategy instead of concentrating into an urban center. The ability of a Town to rezone and provide multi- story institutional buildings in the town' s center could help to strengthen a town's center, help to create more commercial use within the town and keep the town from dying. What is often seen is peripheral commercial nodes outside of town which pull all the commercial activity and retail space out and the center of town dies. He asked about the extension of Homestead Road and noted that he felt this was not sensible as it would eventually be a four-lane road with a commercial strip right through the center of a high-residential area. Also, the proposed industrial park should be placed nearer I- 40. High residential development would need considerable infrastructure and did not belong in this area. He stated it was hard for him to understand the rationale behind these types of densities noting that they did not seem to serve human needs of a plan of this size and he wondered if this would perhaps work into a formula for annexation to get unit counts high enough to be annexed. He felt this should be designed for the wants of the people and not as an economic base for a town to grow. Mr. John Sowder, a Calvander resident, noted that the Calvander residents are not opposed to growth and do like good roads but from Calvander' s standpoint, the plan is devised to do one thing only and that is to "put tax dollars into the coffers of a financially strapped community that lies to the southeast. " He stated that the rural residential way of life is not obsolete. "We can't export our main product. " His statement is as follows: "If you will focus with me for a moment, on one salient feature of this plan, if you have doubts as to what the emphasis is for the plan, I think you will understand and that feature is the Homestead Road Thoroughfare ( a misnomer if there has ever been one) . It is going to be named after the homesteads that it thoroughly plows under. It meanders. It is not primarily designed to feed traffic but to break open the backwoods to development, the sort of development that up until now by natural forces we have largely been able to avoid. The fact that Carrboro now wishes to extend water and sewer into watershed areas is a matter of record, is it not, April 10. That is an interesting way to go about protecting this watershed that Carrboro and Chapel Hill spent an incredible amount of their political coin to enhance in the western regions of the County. No matter what you do in the western regions of the County, if you pollute this watershed by running a road diagonal across it two and one-half miles, if you run sewer and water into that area, what's the purpose? It meanders. The road goes as it will to break up the new property. There are alternatives to the present routing of the thoroughfare that are much more feasible in the movement of traffic and also cost effective in terms of the acquisition and the regrettable but foreseeable use of the power to condemn the property. That corridor is the Eubanks Road corridor. What more could be done to trash that corridor than has been done for the use of the landfill. If you begin at Hatch Road where the present thoroughfare is proposed to begin you are already on the Morgan Creek Watershed. You go diagonally across it two and one-half miles, you come out