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• 057 JPA DRAFT MINUTES 4-17-86 PAGE 18 don't like what's going on, they may say 'you don't vote for me' . If I go to Don Willhoit, I say I don't like it, he says I'm going to do it anyway, then I am going to talk to my friends and the next time he is not going to be Chairman of the County Board. Let's leave it in the County's hands. Let them make the decision. " Robert Markunas, resident of Hideaway Estates just north of the Blackwood Station node and south of the New Hope Church Road/I-40 Interchange. Mr. Markunas noted he was pleased to see the revised Land Use Plan and hoped some of it was due to the input from citizens at some of the more informal meetings. He expressed some of the objections from residents of Hideaway Estates to the New Hope node as follows and did present a petition. "The New Hope node as originally configured on the Joint Planning Area Map nearly bisects Hideaway Estates. The idea of a subdivision with one acre land use per residential occupancy being included in an industrial node and being called Hideaway seems to sum up the overall objection the people had. In addition, if we look at the rural buffers projected on that map, we see that we are in effect making a strip by putting, not a node, but I'd like to think of them as seeds, a seed at New Hope, a seed at Blackwood and a seed at Whitfield and although they are drawn as nicely defined circles there will be enormous pressure for those so-called nodes to link as time goes on. For sure you will have strip development going north from Chapel Hill and remember at the same time that Hillsborough is coming south so that these concepts of transition zones spreading out or well-defined activity nodes are more likely to lead to a disappearing buffer rather than a transitioning buffer. The idea of an industrial node centered at an interstate interchange at first examination seems to make a lot of sense; however, when you look at the services that are available at that node and you realize there is no sewer available, no water available and that the secondary roads that are serving it both in terms of New Hope and 86, are inadequate to support any major traffic flow, you begin to see the irrationality in our view of taking what is effectively a rural buffer that is adequately serving residential needs and turning it into an industrial node that will probably attract one or two isolated occupants that will be just enough to destroy the land for residential use and not enough to provide the real impetus to the node for which it is designed. " George Woodgates, a resident of Barrington Hills, noted he wished to go on record as being "opposed to the industrial park at Calvander and a great deal of the planning that has taken place, including the garbage dump. "