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E. GORDON <br /> WAPREN. JR <br /> RT. 4, BOX 507 <br /> IjILI SBOROUGH. N. C. 27278 <br /> Oct. 31, 1978 <br /> Orange County Commissioners <br /> Hillsborough, N. C. <br /> Dear Sirsl <br /> I understand that you will soon be considering a rezoning request <br /> made by Mr Clarence Gates for a change from Residential, to General. <br /> Commercial on Lawrence Road in Eno Township. <br /> I ask w Aat you consider the public statements made in Chapel Hill, <br /> at the joi t meeting of the Commissioners and the Planning Board, <br /> the recomm ndations of the Planning Board, and your action on a <br /> very simil r request made last year by Mr. Thomas Gates, and turn <br /> do,nm the r quested rezoning change. <br /> Please for ive me for communicating with you in this manner, but I <br /> realize th,t you are especially busy at this time and I wanted to <br /> respect your privacy. I believe that the requested change, if approv <br /> would damake the existing residential character of the neighborhood, <br /> and would tend to lower property values. Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Bunting <br /> and myselflhave publically spoken against this request, but most of <br /> the other roperty owners would have to suffer the most direct <br /> consequent s of such a change since they live beside the road. You <br /> may rememb r that with the exception of the above named property <br /> owners and Mr. Clark, the famlies living en this section of Lawrence <br /> Road are related. You may also remember that when Thomas Gates <br /> requested he same change on property located about 250, away last <br /> year, it c used a split between the famlies, and many of the family <br /> members do not want to go through th t for the again. I dotnochange. <br /> bee eve that <br /> silence a their part means supp or <br /> I understand that almost all of you have received the conducted <br /> tour of t? e septic tank business. I was surprised that Mr. Gates di( <br /> not attenII the meeting of the Planning Board -- evidently he feels t) <br /> his time is better spent with the Commissioners. I hope that I am nt <br /> placed at a disadvantage because I did not employ this tactic. �T <br /> Mr. Gates°right to make his position clear in a matter cf-= natu <br /> but pleas do not interpret the :fact that I have not approached you <br /> on a personal basis as an indication that I have nothing to say. <br /> This part of Eno Township has been zoned residential for quite some <br /> time. The fact that the business presently exists as a nonconformin, <br /> use paint out some of the basic problems with the prior zoning of <br /> Eno ` awnship. However, Orange County has restricted the types of us- <br /> to which his land may be put, and since investment in land and h❑m <br /> in the ar4a has been made with the protection of zoning in mind, <br /> orange County is obligated to maintain this protection unless this <br /> neighborhod or Orange County as a whale suffers if the change is n <br /> permittedI <br />