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058 <br /> JPA DRAFT MINUTES 4-17-86 PAGE 19 <br /> Mr. Woodgates continued, "I 'd like to call attention to <br /> one or two things in terms of planning. The first that <br /> was raised, 'who is behind this planning and the need for <br /> this industrial park? ' We have Food Lion, we have the new <br /> Plantation Acres which was put in; somebody must have <br /> conned the planning commission into development of those <br /> two areas. They are not full, they are not fully occupied <br /> and used; the Food Lion that is up on Weaver Dairy Lane <br /> has lots of property around it that hasn't been used, but <br /> somebody, somehow has told the planning commission that we <br /> need more industrial land to be used and it is coming at a <br /> high price. Now there was a planning commission in 1977 <br /> and I want to quote to you from the records from this Land <br /> Use Plan of Carrboro for 1977 to the year 2000. They have <br /> about four alternate plans for the development of <br /> Carrboro. Rather than talk toward Calvander, I'd like to <br /> talk to you people who make up Carrboro environs. They <br /> had four plans. The wildest one of these was to expand <br /> the plan which they have in here in which they thought <br /> they could consider thirty-eight acres for commercial and <br /> sixty acres for industrial. There's 155 acres planned at <br /> Calvander to say nothing about some of the other planning <br /> that is there and that which was included in Plantation <br /> Acres and also Food Lion, etc. Somebody is able to really: <br /> to talk this Planning Board or whoever the people who are <br /> concerned into it, that industry is more important than <br /> the citizens rights, and the homes and families and the <br /> things that they have here. Number 2, in terms of <br /> employment, we don't have an employment need here; I think <br /> it is 3% here in Carrboro. To say that we have to provide <br /> employment to bring these people in here for employment is <br /> begging the question. We're going to draw people in here <br /> who then of course add more things and more things to it. <br /> That's not an argument that is valid. The third one, <br /> which I think is the biggest one to consider is, in terms <br /> of taxes, any increase in the tax base and I'm quoting, <br /> 'would be eaten up by the rising cost of supplying <br /> services to the residents of the Town. The Planning <br /> Committee of 1977 understood that; the one of today does <br /> not. Let me read you their vision of this, ' the <br /> unlimited growth alternative which this group of whoever <br /> is responsible, would require a significantly higher level <br /> of services than is required by the presence of urban <br /> areas. It would require extensions of water and sewer <br /> lines, 183 acres of additional roadways and I don't <br /> believe that this one that was talking about on Homestead <br /> was included at that time. Increased police protection, <br /> increased fire protection, including a new sub-station to <br /> be located in the northwestern portion of town (None of <br /> these subjects have been discussed in all of this) , <br /> increased park and recreation staff in order to maintain <br /> the parkland required, an increased Town Staff to manage <br /> the every day functions of a town of 21, 000 residents, one <br /> additional elementary school located in the northern part <br />