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.116 . 6 located in areas with moderate to high,population densities. Cnce again, staff contends that the tract in question is located. adjacent to such an area but not in one. Tbe Locational Criteria for a Commercial Industrial Transition Rode are basideLty the same as those for Ten Year Transition except the Existing Land Usecriteriastates: ' • Located within identified Ten or Twenty Year Transition. Areas, .which thesite currently is not. The Planning Department recommds denial of the request. The treaties. • properly classified in the Central Orange Area Study. Their opinion is that the . area delineated by I-85 to the north, Orange Mobile !toe Park to the west, and Southern Railway to the south is correctly classified as Rural Residential per the Locational Criteria previously enumerated. • Bell further noted that staff received 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. . 13=1C:handler, President of Chandler Concrete Company, made the following . presentation: His operation has been in Hillsborough since 1972. At that time, other surrounding businesses an mobile home parks were not in the area. Be was contacted in August of 1984 about the availability of land adjoining his tract. Be noted that he was led to believe that the property was already in the Land Use Plan as commercial property. Nothing was done with the property until. • January 1985. ' At this time, representatives of DER 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. DER did find high acidity levels and from that point on, Chandler was told to take steps to control the flow of °