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' • 1 1 i 5 located within identified Ten or Twenty Year Transition Areas, which = the site currently is not. The Planning Department recommends denial of the request. The tract was properly classified in the Central Orange Area Study. Their opinion is that the area delineated by 1-85 to the north, Orange Mobile Bore Park to the west, and "If Southern Railway to the south is correctly classified as Rural Residential per the Locational Criteria previously enumerated. Bell further noted that staff recieved many letters of opposition on this amendment request. Copies of these letters were included in agenda packets or distributed at the meeting tonight. Most of the opposition has come from surrounding property owners. Orange County Health Department and Town of Hillsborough Planning Board have also expressed opposition. Tom Chandler, President of Chandler Concrete Company, made the following presentation: His operation has been in Hillsborough since 1972. At that tine, other surrounding businesses and mobile home parks were not in the area.. Be was contacted in August of 1984 about the availability of land adjoining his tract. He noted that he was led to believe that the property was already in the Land Use Plan as cormercial property. Nothing was done with the property until January 1985. At this time, representatives of DEM visited the site and informed Mr. Chandler that they had received a report that acid was being used and present in the runoff from this property. DEM did find high acidity levels and from that point on, Chandler was told to take steps to control, the flow of the water that was coming from the washing out of the trucks. Chandler asked for assistance from DEM and forms were sent to apply for permits. These • permits have been filed with Dal in Raleigh. A permit was issued by Soil and Erosion for grading and clearing of land and a firm was hired to do this grading, slope the land and put in the ponds. At the time Chandler was notified that the property could not be used for the purpose of parking the vehicles, so parking was stopped. Mr. Chandler continued that when he put the grading plan into effect, a gravel drive was constructed that comes out onto SR 1710. This drive would give much better visibility and safer access due to the fact that the current exit is in a curve. This new entrance has been blocked and is not being used in accordance with ruling by the Planning Department. Chandler felt justified in applying for the amendment to the LUP by several factors as follows: The criteria given to him when he first talked to Planning Department Members indicated justification for asking for the amendment because: 1.