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10 <br /> and other surrounding property totaling approximately 70 acres. Carrboro <br /> is now trying to take control of us and destroy that. My husband and I <br /> have raised our three children here and they appear to love it just as much <br /> as we do. We have some very good neighbors and are very thankful for it. <br /> We all enjoy being rural residents. <br /> As a land owner and tax paying citizen of Orange County, I would like <br /> everyone here tonight to know that I am bitterly opposed to Carrboro having <br /> any control of Calvander whatsoever, much less total control. We have <br /> absolutely no representatives from Calvander in Carrboro. As it is now, we <br /> have you as County Commissioners, who are elected by us, county residents, <br /> to represent us. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for <br /> giving us this chance to speak. <br /> All residents whom I have talked with feel as I do about the swap. <br /> The very idea of Carrboro trying to swap the watershed area for total <br /> control of 1805 acres of land is ludicrous. They have the watershed now <br /> and if they can't handle that, let them give it back to the County. It is <br /> grossly unfair to try to use us as their bargaining chip. I think one of <br /> the most important questions we need to ask here tonight is has Carrboro <br /> really been a good steward. i think most would have to agree that the <br /> answer is no. If they had, they would not be trying to go into the <br /> watershed with their development. <br /> They planned to put a road across Morgan Creek which is less than a <br /> mile from University Lake just so they could connect Hwy. 54 with Airport <br /> Road. It took several meetings and speeches from environmental experts to <br /> make them understand how that would severely damage the drinking water of <br /> by polluting it with lead from the road runoff. <br /> If Carrboro gained total control, I wonder if the people of Calvander <br /> can expect our community to look as bad in a few years as Carrboro does now <br /> with buildings and apartments piled on top of each other in every direction <br /> you look, streets that are so crowded and torn up they are always <br /> impassable. Well, we all know what a mess it is for approximately two <br /> square miles which they now control and we don't want that to happen to our <br /> community. These are only a few examples of why it is so important to us <br /> to remain in the County's jurisdiction. <br /> This is not a slap against the general population of Carrboro. It is <br /> placed toward government which the people there are stuck with. The <br /> Carrboro officials have enough to keep them busy for the next 25 years if 1 <br /> they want to clean up their own back yard and stay out of ours. If we <br /> wanted to live in their kind of environment, we would all move to <br /> Carrboro. Maybe that would make Carrboro officials happy, for they would <br /> not have to take control of Calvander to enjoy the pleasure of our <br /> company. It would really be a shame for Carrboro to get control of us and <br /> destroy our countryside and farm land, or planning new land uses in order <br /> to annex it like they did Barrington Hills. That is exactly what they would <br /> do in order to increase their tax base and double our taxes. What would <br /> we get in return? Nothing, except the privilege of living inside the <br /> Carrboro city limits. I can remember when the Tripp property to Barrington <br /> Hills was rural residential but in Carrboro's planning and zoning <br /> jurisdiction. i don't blame people like Mrs. Tripp for selling her <br /> property, because the Carrboro government was worrying the poor lady half <br /> to death trying to take it from her for a park. Barrington Hills residents <br />