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v <br /> .- <br /> 091. <br /> ri4 <br /> e <br /> . , <br /> qv- <br /> :IS <br /> .t; <br /> $n . <br /> ■ <br /> • <br /> Orange Cc:un'ty Planning Department <br /> , <br /> 106 East Margaret Lane <br /> • <br /> Hillsborough , NC 27278 <br /> • <br /> May 23, 1985 . <br /> . . <br /> . • <br /> Dear Members of the Planning Department, • <br /> , <br /> As residents and property owners in Joppa Oaks we wish <br /> to protest the rezoning of the new Chandler Concrete Company <br /> prop--,rty from Rural Residential to Ten Year Transition and <br /> Commercial -industrial Transition Activity Node . We think that <br /> t?, <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 /> i <br /> ,, • shown its lack of regard for the safety and welfare of nearbY <br /> 3., property owners by carelessly dumping corrosive chemicals and <br /> waste products not only on their own property but also on that <br /> • <br /> of others. For example , in order to dispose of acid wastes <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 i -concrete waste <br /> - . <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 /> i . For these reasons, we feel that the Planning <br /> 1 Department should have environmental impact studies conducted <br /> concerning this aort 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 (giver, Chandler's lack of environmental awareness) <br /> have negative consequences for the surrounding communit:e. <br /> • <br /> . . . <br /> _ , <br />