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still in the watershed just north of the suicide intersection of Old NC 86 and Old Fayetteville Road. Then you go down and across Bolin Creek to re-emerge on Homestead Road and put 6000 trips a day in front of the High School and Jr. High School. I would really like to hear from the School Board on this. They have plans to move Horace Williams Airport but we know that its far more dangerous to the lives of young people to have 6000 trips a day in front of the high school. There is an alternative. It is the Eubanks Road alternative. As it comes down it can come right straight down Old 86. You can prioritize Old Fayetteville Road. As Mr. Hartley suggested you can cross NC 54 above Plantation Acres. That's going to have to be controlled at some point at any rate. You can go from there on down Old Fayetteville Road and across Jones Ferry Road hooking up with the southern link. My question is "What does the School Board say about the traffic problem at their end and what does NCDOT say about the environmental impact on the watershed end. I would like to hear some answers from the appropriate domain and I shall close by saying we don't want to vote in the Carrboro elections. Mr. Dave Rutter, a Calvander resident, noted that he had been unintentionally misquoted by Jerry Davenport of the Carrboro Planning Department in a statement he made at an April 3 Special Public Forum with Carrboro Planning Board. He continued that he must clarify that misunder- standing before he presents his statement tonight. "I am only a citizen and a taxpayer living in the most heavily impacted area of this Land Use Plan and I am powerless in this situation except in speaking out in meetings of this type. The most unfortunate distortion of my remarks is the paragraph I read verbatim and say again tonight, "Ladies and Gentlemen the annexation statutes of North Carolina takes much of the annexation say so away from the people by proscribing the referendum. The law puts the burden of trust on the planners of communities to achieve growth reasonably, rationally and when necessary. Annexation solely for the sake of Carrboro's fiscal enhancement is a betrayal of that trust. I must say I feel the annexation law is a good law because in theory it puts our community' s growth in a status more reflective of real urbanization. Calvander is a rural area now and the 100 or so signers of the petition that we have circulated just since Monday night would like to have it remain so. I-40 or no, if growth comes we want its pace to reflect the character of the neighborhood but nobody asked us about that. Instead, though there are 2400 undeveloped acres within the County zoned or designated for industrial use, Carrboro has planned for us a hundred acre industrial park, a possible 100, 000 square foot shopping center and high density urban housing to raise this nodes population by 12 , 000 in the next twenty years. Roy Williford, Carrboro Council members and Planning Board members confirmed that this is an annexation strategy and why. Mr. Davenport' s answer sheet states clearly that this is to 'anchor' Carrboro's tax base plus the notion of developing blue collar jobs. We've never had much of a blue collar climate here and I doubt we need one since a) we have the lowest unemployment rate by county in North Carolina and b) as the planners own answer sheet states 'the jobs in the Research Triangle Park area and Chapel Hill are creating the growth. So the job argument is weak meaning that pretty much for the purpose of Carrboro's fiscal enhancement, Calvander must undergo a devastating transformation. ' North Carrboro, yes the time has come