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06c <br /> 11 <br /> need to ask here tonight is has Carrboro really been a good <br /> steward. I think most would have to agree that the answer is no. <br /> If they had, they would not be trying to go into the watershed with <br /> 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 <br /> Airport Road. It took several meetings and speeches from <br /> environmental experts to make them understand how that would <br /> severely damage the drinking water of by polluting it with lead <br /> from the road runoff. <br /> If Carrboro gained total control. I wonder if the people of <br /> Calvander can expect our community to look as bad in a few years as <br /> Carrboro does now with buildings and apartments piled on top of <br /> each other in every direction you look, streets that are so crowded <br /> and torn up they are always impassable. Well, we all know what a <br /> mess it is for approximately two square miles which they now <br /> control and we don' t want that to happen to our community. These <br /> are only a few examples of why it is so important to us to remain <br /> in the County's jurisdiction. <br /> This is not a slap against the general population of Carrboro. It <br /> is placed toward government which the people there are stuck with. <br /> The Carrboro officials have enough to keep them busy for the next <br /> 25 years if they want to clean up their own back yard and stay out <br /> of ours. If we wanted to live in their kind of environment, we <br /> would all move to Carrboro. Maybe that would make Carrboro <br /> officials happy. for they would not have to take control of <br /> Calvander to enjoy the pleasure of our company. It would really be <br /> a shame for Carrboro to get control of us and destroy our <br /> countryside and farm land, or planning new land uses in order to <br /> annex it like they did Barrington Hills. That is exactly what they <br /> would do in order to increase their tax base and double our <br /> taxes. What would we get in return? Nothing. except the privilege <br /> of living inside the Carrboro city limits. I can remember when the <br /> Tripp property to Barrington Hills was rural residential but in <br /> Carrboro' s planning and zoning jurisdiction. I don' t blame people <br /> like Mrs. Tripp for selling her property, because the Carrboro <br /> government was worrying the poor lady half to death trying to take <br /> it from her for a park. Barrington Hills residents tried every way <br /> to keep Carrboro from involuntarily annexing them, but Carrboro <br /> took them anyway. Now they are working their way out to our <br /> Calvander. <br /> My parents and I have no fond memories of our dealings with <br /> Carrboro officials in years past. About 10 years ago Carrboro had <br /> planned. unknown to us. to condemn the service station building and <br /> surrounding land and take it for a place to build a proposed future <br /> fire station. A friend who happened to be in Carrboro or involved <br /> in one of the night meetings found out about it and told my parents <br /> who hired a lawyer to check it out. Once they found out that we <br /> were on to them. they tried to deny everything and dropped the <br /> whole idea. Last year. a neighbor found out. through the grapevine <br /> of course. that Carrboro had an industrial park planned for the <br /> middle of Calvander, plus all surrounding properties to be rezoned <br /> for high density housing which could be 12 to 15 units per acre. <br />