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- • • • •-- - • 146 fit-CL/1/4:0 Orange County Planning Department 106 East Margaret Lane Hillsborough , NC 27278 May 23, 1985 Dear Members of the Planning Department , As residents and property owners in Joppa Oaks we wish to protest the rezoning of the new Chandler Concrete Company property from Rural Residential to Ten Year Transition and Commercial —industrial Transition Activity Node . We think that allowing this rezoning to take place is NOT to the benefit of the surrounding community of residential property owners for the following reasons. We feel that Chandler Concrete Company has clearly shown its lack of regard for the safety and welfare of nearby property owners by carelessly dumping corrosive chemicals and waste products not only on their own property but also on that of others. For example, In order to dispose of acid waste , Chandler recently polluted several lots in Joppa Oaks as well as a stream which runs through our property. One resident's lot was literally submerged in muriatic acid / concrete waste for several months before Chandler took corrective action--and only then because of a complaint to the Orange County Health Deartment and the County Manager's Office . It has also been reported to us that this pollution caused a fish kill where the stream empties into a private lake in Byrdville . Has anyone in the Planning Department Cooked into this matter? Also, we and our neighbors have noticed a good deal of dust coming from Chandler's operations and floating over Joppa Oaks. (This has become all the more noticeable since the roads in Joppa Oaks have been recently paved. ) For these reasons, we feel that the Planning Department should have environmental impact studies conducted concerning this sort of damage by Chandler's latest expansion . Only then do we believe the Department will have the facts upon which to base a rational decision concerning the industrialization of what has traditionially been a residential area in Orange County. In the absence of such studies, the Planning Department would be authorizing a change in the planned development of this area which would almost definitely (given Chandler's lack of environmental awareness) have negative consequences for the surrounding community.