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• <br /> as• <br /> Orange County Planning Department,: <br /> 106 East Margaret Lane <br /> Hillsborough , NC 27278 <br /> May 23, 1985 • <br /> Dear Members of the Planning Department , <br /> As residents and property owners in Joppa Oaks we wish <br /> to protest the rezoning of the new Chandler Concrete Company <br /> property from Rural Residential to Ten Year Transition and <br /> Commercial-industrial Transition Activity Node. We think that <br /> allowing this rezoning to take place is NOT to the benefit of <br /> the surrounding community of residential property owners for <br /> the following reasons. <br /> We feel that Chandler Concrete Company has clearly <br /> shown its lack of regard for the safety and welfare of nearby <br /> property owners by carelessly dumping corrosive chemicals and <br /> waste products not only on their. own property but also on that <br /> of others. For example , in order to dispose of acid waste , <br /> Chandler recently polluted several lots in Joppa Oaks as well <br /> as a stream which runs through our property. One resident's <br /> lot was literally submerged in muriatic acid / concrete waste <br /> - -for several months before Chandler took corrective action--and <br /> only then because of a complaint to the Orange County Health <br /> Deartment and the County Manager's Office. It has also been <br /> • reported to us that this pollution caused a fish kill where <br /> the stream empties into a private lake in Byrdville . Has <br /> anyone in the Planning Department looked into this matter? <br /> • Also, we and our neighbors have noticed a good deal of dust <br /> coming from Chandler's operations and floating over Joppa <br /> Oaks. This has become all the more noticeable since the <br /> roads in Joppa Oaks have been recently paved. ) <br /> For these reasons, we feel that the Planning <br /> Department should have environmental impact studies conducted <br /> concerning this sort of damage by Chandler's latest expansion . <br /> Only then do we believe the Department will have the facts <br /> upon which to base a rational decision concerning the <br /> industrialization of what has traditionially been a • <br /> residential area in Orange County. In the absence of such <br /> • studies, the Planning Department would be authorizing a change <br /> in the planned development of this area which would almost <br /> definitely (given Chandler's lack of environmental awareness) <br /> have negative consequences for the surrounding community. <br /> • <br /> • <br />