Agenda - 02-16-1993 - III-F - Laserfiche WebLink

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24 7 1 stated he has written a number of articles on Land Use strategies. He stated 2 he does not understand the information that backs up this amendment request. 3 If the information is flawed, can the Board of County Commissioners vote on 4 it. He pointed out several contradictions in the background information. 5 On page 195, the information indicates that 258 children will be generated 6 by this project while on page 303 the information indicates there will be 345 7_ school age children generated by this project. On page 245, the developers 8 say there will be over 1, 000 children living in this project. On page 248 9 the developer indicates there will be 6700 average traffic trips generated. 10 On page 255, the information indicates there will be 9, 431. On page 301 it 11 says that the average price of a home in this development will be $159 , 944 . 12 He noted that there is no evidence presented in the background information 13 to merit a favorable vote by the Board of County Commissioners to designate 14 this project as open space. The amendment was changed in the middle from 15 Ten-Year Transition to Ten-Year Transition or Open Space transition. 16 ALLEN SPALT, Director of the Agricultural Resources Center in Carrboro, 17 read a statement which has been made a part of the record of this meeting by 18 reference. In summary, he stated that he supports planned communities but 19 saying that this kind of development will preserve Rural Character and is 20 consistent with the kind of density thats allowed is just not right. He 21 feels that a golf course is not open space but more like a medium on a 22 freeway counting the grassed area as open space. Active open space should 23 not count the same way as a field. Responsibly managed gold courses are not 24 toxic waste dumps and their environmental affects should not be exaggerated. 25 But neither are they benign or neutral. They have been a source of serious 26 problems affecting water quality, wildlife and human health primarily from 27 the heavy use of pesticides. He presented some written information on the 28 affects of golf courses and other articles. 29 PETER PICKENS read a statement which has been made a part of the record 30 of this meeting by reference. He is against any rezoning of this part of 31 rural Orange County which would allow a development such as University 32 Station to be built. He objects to the apartments, townhouses and 33 condominiums planned for this development. He is opposed to the whole 34 village concept of University Station. He would be very surprised if 35 University Station doesn't have urban restrictive covenants, which will not 36 allow livestock such as horses or perhaps chickens. He feels that the 37 developments built in rural areas should themselves have rural character with 38 rural covenants, which would give residents the option, the alternative, the 39 freedom to live and pursue a country life in those rural areas. He asks the 40 Board of County Commissioners to do whats best for rural Orange County and 41 not to change the zoning from Rural Residential to Ten-Year Transition or 42 Open Space Development Area and not to approve the proposed University 43 Station project. 44 LEE RAFALOW read a statement which has been made a part of the record of 45 this meeting by reference. In summary he made reference to the comments Mr. 46 Kenan and Mr. Cogswell made at the last public hearing _-on December 1 and 47 indicated that a lot of people know about risk. His vision is that of a 48 density neutral development that does not distort the concept of preserving 49 open space and rural character. He feels that the developers will transform 50 their homes into urban sprawl and ruin the quality of life for which they 51 have all worked so hard. He asked the Board of County Commissioners to help 52 the citizens implement an alternative to urban sprawl.