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JPA DRAFT MINUTES 4-17-86 • PAGE 6 planned for the Calvander node area in which I became a resident and homeowner last year, I found that the information i needed was in a hard to find box in the Carrboro Planning Department and it also cost $4.00. I _ talked to other landowners in Calvander, many of whom were unaware of this plan, of this meeting and of what we are discussing here tonight. A few residents received maps in the mail, small and difficult to read. Many of us received no notice at all. I 'm aware that you are under. no legal obligation to inform us of the plan. The Carrboro Planning Board has publicly stated its desire to communicate openly with the citizens affected by its plan. I speak for myself, my family and many of my neighbors when I earnestly ask you to grant a further public hearing on development plans for the Calvander node. In conclusion i wish to state for the record that I strongly object to any zoning for Calvander other than R-- 1. Anything else will destroy the quality of life Calvander's residents have worked so hard to retain. Ruby Blackwood, a resident of Calvander, statement attached to these minutes. Randy Danziger, resident of Calvander, began his presentation noting that he thought it was nice that the different municipalities and Boards were working together to come up with a plan. He continued that sometimes the homeowners in a given area are transitory and so the development pressures are real; but he felt, for the Calvander area, the development pressures are going to be created by this planning rather than being addressed by this planning. He stated he had called everyone in the immediate vicinity indicated by this industrial node as to their position relative to the notion of having a node here and having high density housing and he had put it down on a map. He presented the map noting that he had marked property of all those property owners who have no intention of doing anything other than what is being clone now with their land for the next thirty years. He indicated as well property of an owner who wishes to remain neutral because he is a farmer now and if the area is zoned as an industrial park he will have a profitable opportunity sometime within the next ten years to transfer out of farming in this area where it has become unprofitable and buy property further out in the County. None of these people have expressed any advocacy of having this industrial node here or any higher density residential use than currently exists. He asked that the map be submitted into the record noting that he felt it may give the very good planning that is being done in other parts of the County an opportunity to address the concerns of a significant portion of the land area here relative to this node. He stated the property owners quite