Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
• <br /> 051 <br /> JPA DRAFT MINUTES 4-17-86 PAGE 12 <br /> alternates to the northern loop and I just want to say <br /> that I would strongly recommend that all the judicial <br /> bodies present this evening to reconsider the location of <br /> the northern loop, to not put that near or on Homestead <br /> Road. I also support fully. calling another public hearing <br /> to specifically discuss the Calvander Industrial Node. I <br /> am not opposed to planning for growth. I am not opposed <br /> to joint planning but I am opposed to planning which <br /> encourages growth that nobody wants. " <br /> Richard Ellington, citizen of Carrboro made the following <br /> statement: <br /> "As a citizen of Carrboro I look forward to the day when <br /> we will indeed have joint planning between Carrboro, <br /> Chapel Hill and Orange County. The Calvander Industrial <br /> Node as depicted on the map beside me, cuts off the normal <br /> northern growth pattern for the Town of Carrboro. It also <br /> is, incidently, the only industrial node left on the map, <br /> which I highly disapprove of. Carrboro has already <br /> sacrificed its western boundary for growth to a watershed. <br /> The Carrboro Board of Aldermen recently passed a <br /> resolution to agree to go along with the North Carolina <br /> Conservation Council, I believe, which would declare this <br /> land as a water conservation area and decrease and even <br /> strengthen the residential restrictions on the area <br /> immediately west of the Old Fayetteville Road area and <br /> west of the Old Hillsborough Road area. So, Carrboro has <br /> cut off its own nose in a sense as far as western growth <br /> is concerned. So, we only have as a town, basically one <br /> way that is vital to grow and that is north. i personally <br /> do not approve of the idea of an industrial commercial <br /> node parked directly in the middle of that natural growth <br /> pattern economically. Aesthetically, I disapprove of it <br /> even more. I live in this area annexed by Carrboro <br /> approximately five years ago. Dumping your industry and <br /> your garbage on the Homestead . Road neighborhood is a <br /> travesty of justice. I don't have facts to substantiate <br /> it, but I cannot help but believe industry provides only <br /> short term tax benefit to any organization, be it a town <br /> or be it a county. As Carrboro or if Carrboro absorbs this <br /> industrial complex, it can't expand without either going <br /> around it and I don't know . many people who want to build <br /> their house across the street from a factory, and the area <br /> immediately north becomes a drain on Carrboro as opposed <br /> to an advantage. We're much too short sighted on our <br /> arterial plan. 15-501 By-Pass around the south of Chapel <br /> Hill is a prime example. The By-Pass was no more in place <br /> until roads were being run off the by-pass and it opened <br /> up more residential areas.. Why do we talk about having an <br /> artery that is going to bisect a large area that we say is <br /> going to be high density within twenty years. If the road <br /> is not even being planned, just thought about then let's <br /> put it somewhere way out that makes sense. Let's put it <br />