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t{.e- • r ' September 3, 1985 Mr. Don Willhoit, Chairman Ms. Shirley Marshall, Vice-Chair Mr. Ben Lloyd Mr. Norman Walker - Mr. Moses Carey, Jr. Orange County Board of Commissioners 106 W. Margaret Lane Hillsborough, N. C. Dear Commissioners: Re: Rezoning requests of Robert and Rachel Scholar and Khye Weng Ng and Gust Chang Ng I am writing this letter regarding the above rezoning requests that were presented to you on August 26th as I do not feel that satisfactory notification was given to the public that the re- quests would be on the agenda for Monday, August 26th. 1. The notice in the Durham Morning Herald August 15, 22, 1985 did not mention the above requests. 2, A one-time notice in the Durham Morning Herald on Friday, August 23 (with the meeting to be held on Monday, August 26) does not seem to be ample notifi- cation to the citizens of Orange County. The zoning requests wore originally scheduled for the quarterly public hearing for Monday, February 25, 1985, but were not heard at that time and have been continuously postponed since then. It has been clearly stated in a lett1er dated August 22, 1985 from Mayor Sheffield that to serve those developments would be subject to review and approval of detailed engineering plans (a copy of his letter is attached). As we all know, the Town of Hillsborough has been advised by the Town Engineer that an above ground water tank north of town is needed to serve the areas in question; this will take time to accomplish. Any decision made now by you on the rezoning requ will apply whenever the Town of Hillsborough is able to service the area, even though it may be 1-1/2 years from now. Request of Robert and Rachel Scholar 1. With reference to their original request in February, a 1982 traffic count waa used; surely that cannot be an accurate count with the construction we have already had during the past three years. 2. The only streets referred to in the original request are North Dixie and Harper. Please refer to the street map attached. It is not pointed out that the traffic would - - probably all exit via Faucette Mill Road or Cedar Grove Road onto Hwy 70 By-Pass, which is already a very con- gested area and would also feed traffic into the Town of Hillsborough via U. S. 70-Business, which has been listed by the State Department of Transportation as one cr the most dangerous in the State. 3. The Hillsborough Planning Board recommended R-3 (see copy of letter dated February 13, 1985). The request is still for R-4 regardless of the impact it would have on the surrounding community.