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5 <br /> 3 <br /> Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Company <br /> ROUTE 3. BOX 316 <br /> HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 <br /> February 16, 1994 <br /> Rod Vissej� <br /> County Matager's office <br /> P. O. Box 8181 <br /> Hillsborotgh, NC 27278 <br /> Dear Mr. V isser, <br /> I want to thank you and John Link for helping arrange a public <br /> hearing or, March 1 concerning plans to expand our fire station on <br /> Orange Grcve Road. With this letter are two exhibits that the <br /> Commissioners might want to see: <br /> the next-to-last version of our site plan; <br /> the current version of our floor plan. <br /> We require a public hearing and official County approval of the <br /> project in order to qualify for a below-prime interest rate <br /> through a (commercial bank. <br /> As you may know, we have been interested in expanding our station <br /> for several years but have been stymied by the impervious surface <br /> requirement in the zoning ordinance. At about the same time that <br /> the Commissioners were relaxing the requirement for volunteer fire <br /> companies, we were acquiring enough additional acreage to meet <br /> the old requirement. <br /> Our goal is to add two bays to our station (one for a fire truck, <br /> the other for either a rescue vehicle or another fire truck) and <br /> to expand the rest of the station to meet the community's needs <br /> for the nest twenty years. This entails adding an office, a <br /> meeting/triining room, a decon room, and two bedrooms so that we <br /> can have personnel on call around the clock. <br /> The present status of the project is as follows: We have <br /> contracted with CGA, an architectural firm in Chapel Hill, to <br /> prepare plans. They are now virtually complete. We lack only a <br /> small detail before receiving site plan approval from the <br /> Planning Department. We hope to be able to request bids later <br /> this month or early in March. We would like to begin construction <br /> in the spring and have the project completed before winter. <br /> The cost of the project is unknown but estimated to be between <br /> $170,000 and $210,000. We have cash reserves of about $90,000 and <br /> will commit some of them to the project as a down payment. We <br /> will finance the project from a commercial bank. We project <br /> I'I <br />