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• • •i1 STONEYCREEK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT • VICE-PRESJTREAS. SECRETARY Clinton Burklin Marcia Koth Carmine Prioli 113 Stoneycreek 114 Stoneycreek 107 Stoneycreek 732-4379 732-4641 732-8650 • May 8, 1986. Mr. Kirk Pelland Chapel Hill Township Advisory Committee • Chapel Hill , N. C. 27514 Regarding: The New Hope Church Road portion of the Joint Land Use Plan Dear Kirk: I appreciate the opportunity to present the following information to the Chapel Hill Township Advisory Committee in clarification of views which have been expressed by the New Hope area residents. On behalf of the several hundred residents who have signed the attached statement, I want to say that we fully support the Joint Land Use Plan which was presented at the April 17th public hearing. A critical component of the plan is the rural buffer. It preserves the rural beauty of central Orange County, it preserves the individuality of Chapel Hill , Carrboro, and Hillsborough, and it provides for low density growth in the absence of supporting municipal infrastructure. You were wise to expand as well as preserve the rural buffer in the proposed Land Use Plan. Some have thought that we were only concerned with the possibility of a rock quarry in the rural buffer.. Not so. We would all be just as concerned with the creation of a "commercial " hole in the rural buffer as we would be with an "industrial" hole in the rural buffer. The rural buffer cannot handle high employee densities regardless of their employer. We foresee severe problems with water, sewage, east-west traffic, pollution, and conflicting land uses from commercial and industrial development in the rural buffer. We appreciate your support of the currently proposed Joint Land Use Plan which preserves and expands the rural buffer through the New Hope Church Road area. Sincerely, - Clinton E. Burklin President