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Sha_r l yne Pilkey <br /> L' ,� r� l,. 06 <br /> Hillsborough is a small village of some 3,000 people soon to be <br /> acted by the addition of Scotswood and some 1 ,200 people, not to <br /> tion the people using the proposed shopping 4 0 ublic he � c-nt,.r. I have attended <br /> p arings and was one of the ."lanning Board members who met <br /> the developers prior to the presentation. I am not opposed to <br /> development of the three hundred acr? ,s, bat i havestrong '-"esrvations <br /> t the way it is to be done with the present plan. <br /> I am the only Planning Board member living on Highway 70.; Daily <br /> I watch from my porch the traffic and I know from personal ience the difficulty of driving towards Durham on thisroad. Ir'also know from personal experience how long it takes DOT to do <br /> anything about a dangerous intersection. It has taken 15 years <br /> of accidents at the intersection of Highway 70- and Palmers Grove <br /> Road to get anything corrected. Traffic accident re s those introduced at the public hearin to coadt, uch <br /> he record, as man q g, 11 only part of f Y pe ople do not report accidentsto avoid points <br /> n their insurance.illsborough is not Cary, it is not Durham, it is not your <br /> verage every day ordinary municipality. It is, however, a <br /> mall town with a rich historical ass� an V p ex-capitol of Colonial <br /> orth Carolina and a Indian village of note historically. To <br /> reat it with the same type of zoning used for municipalities <br /> n the Southern part of Orange County shows a lack of for :Se he presei�.� zonin.�- r,.: mood planning. <br /> of swood zs one house peracre and no <br /> e-zoning should be granted, except for the condominiums and the <br /> opping center. Cur land use plan addresses shopping areas <br /> d their spacing from each other, and the ropose d development rved ade uate ly by the x p velapment is <br /> d� and P, Eyrds, and the Family Supermarketshopping center for Scotsw ood should be r?duced in siz . <br /> i s is the first of the de lar�� e ge velopments that will be impacting <br /> rth,CL'Il Orange County J. :'later will be an on-going"vhlo,lmsnt ;;gill open the land St, 1�T 1 This <br /> alone arys Road ad all the <br /> nd to the north, already we hav^ r Ca ry careful not ± m, se and ` � fir ra% must bo alloy ha.phaza_rd -le--,-.Cnt which w;1,limited resources. tax <br />