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• 047 JPA DRAFT MINUTES 4-17-86 • PAGE 8 of a high-residential area. Also, the industrial park proposed should be placed nearer I-40. He continued that high residential development would need considerable infrastructure and did not belong in this area. He stated it was hard for him to understand the rationale behind these types of densities noting that they did not seem to serve human needs of a plan of this size and he wondered if this would perhaps work into a formula for annexation to get unit counts high enough to be annexed. He felt this should be designed for the wants of the people and not as an economic base for a town to grow. John Sowder--Calvander resident made the following statement. Mr. Sowder noted that Calvander residents are not opposed • to growth and do like good roads; but from Calvander's standpoint, the plan is devised to do one thing only and that is to "put tax dollars into the coffers of a financially strapped community that lies to our southeast." Mr. Sowder continued "We can't export our main product, it's not obsolete, it's the rural residential way of life. If you will focus with me for a moment, on one salient feature of this plan, if you have doubts as to what the emphasis is for the plan, I think you will understand and that feature is the Homestead Road Thoroughfare ( a misnomer if there has ever been one) . It is going to be named after the homesteads that it thoroughly plows under. It meanders. It is not primarily designed to feed traffic but to break open the backwoods to development, the sort of development that up until now by natural forces we have largely been able to avoid. The fact that Carrboro now wishes to extend water and sewer into watershed areas is a matter of record, is it not, April 10. That is an interesting way to go about protecting this watershed that Carrboro and Chapel Hill spent an incredible amount of their political coin to enhance in the western regions of the County. No matter what you do in the western regions of the County, if you pollute this watershed by running a road diagonal across it two and one-half miles, if you run sewer and water into that area, what's the purpose? it meanders. The road goes as it will to break up the new property. There are alternatives to the present routing of the thoroughfare that are much more feasible in the movement of traffic and also cost effective in terms of the acquisition and the regrettable but foreseeable use of the power to condemn the property. That corridor is the Eubanks Road corridor. What more could be done to trash that corridor than has been done for the use of the landfill. If you begin at Hatch Road where the present thoroughfare is proposed to begin you are already on the Morgan Creek Watershed. You go diagonally across it two