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as <br /> the road will now be moved over with a designated <br /> right-of-way of thirty feet so that the center <br /> point, now this is based on their map, the road <br /> will now be eighty feet from my chimney which, I <br /> don't have a right-of-way on my property line but <br /> it still has some effect on my house. It' s an <br /> issue that I understand you can't address, but, I <br /> think it is an issue that needs to be addressed, <br /> over time, in a different manner or perhaps with <br /> you coming up with some kind of regulation that <br /> prevents subdivisions from infringing on historic <br /> homes. That is the only issue that we are <br /> bringing forward to you tonight. We are not <br /> trying to say 'don't allow the Roberts to have a <br /> subdivision. ' There are other issues we would <br /> like to have met, I don't think those will be met <br /> in this room, but I am saying to the Board <br /> tonight that I would ask you to please become an <br /> advocate for all the people, not just for the <br /> developer because the individual property owners <br /> do not know what is going on in this room at all <br /> times. What I see is several developments coming <br /> to you every time and getting approved. So what <br /> you're having is hopscotch development, I 've <br /> brought that up before, and my concern is that <br /> Orange County' s value is in its land and its <br /> rural community. If you continue to develop <br /> subdivisions as you are, you will end up with a <br /> little Cary in the Hillsborough area. I am asking <br /> you to please to look at that and, somehow, <br /> without making it a long drawn out process, it <br /> could be five years, at which point every <br /> developer in town will have had an opportunity to <br /> put forward to you at least three or four <br /> developments. And I am asking you to make some <br /> efforts to go forward with this at a rapid speed <br /> and come up with some regulations to allow the <br /> landowners some way of preserving the historic <br /> value of the land. " <br /> Waddell asked for Ms. Baldwin's suggestion <br /> regarding better notification. Ms. Baldwin <br /> responded that someone should review such <br /> developments and the areas in which they are <br /> located to determine the type of surroundings. <br /> That would have made it obvious, with the two <br /> large homes, that a subdivision such as Black <br /> Walnut Farm is not suitable for such an historic <br /> area. Ms. Baldwin agreed with Waddell that owners <br /> of historic properties should be notified when <br /> development is proposed which would come within a <br /> certain distance of the historic home/area. Ms. <br /> Baldwin continued, asking that the Planning Board <br /> come up with a plan where the historic homes are <br />