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Feb . 23 , 1987 Madame Chair and other County Commissioners , We ' re sorry we are unable to attend the public hearing tonight because we feel very strong about the issue at hand . As long- time residents and landowners in the heart of Calvander and members of the Calvander Community Association we are bitterly opposed to the take over of our community by Carrboro Officials and we question the legality of a swap . We feel it would eventually destroy our neighborhood which a lot of us older residents have worked long and hard to preserve . We don ' t appreciate a bunch of strangers planning for what we can or cannot do with our own land . In our case , it has taken me 60 years of hard work to accumulate the 70 acres we now own in Calvander . We think the Calvander people are quite capable of taking care of their own land . . .we ' ve done pretty good with it so far . It ' s a pity that things have gotten so out of hand that the burden of proof is now on the taxpayer and never on the boards , who are paid people . Calvander residents and Carrboro officials do not see eye to y p To give you an example , eye or�_ how the land should be developed .. T we purchased several lots across from Barrington Hills many years ago , while it was still in the county jurisdiction . The lot at the intersection of Old 86 and Fayetteville Road was zoned for commercial use when we purchased it and we planned to eventually build a nice store there . Carrboro involuntarily annexed all of that land , and of course , the property tax on all the lots over doubled . They also rezoned our corner lot to residential . Now we cannot do a darn thing with that lot except let it grow little trees . A man came to us a couple of years ago and wanted our qt.