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Georgann Eubanks: Hogan Lake Rezoning Summation 3 <br /> 0 <br /> and sanitation for a "leap-frog" development, exceeding tax base <br /> income and likely requiring higher tax rates. And, under the Joint <br /> Planning Agreement, doubled density means setting a precedent for <br /> further, similar rezonings throughout the T-2 transition area. <br /> All of these objections have been documented with detailed, <br /> uncontroverted facts. Since time is limited, I would like to review <br /> evidence in just one area: roads. Planning staff advises you that, <br /> because NCDOT studied Homestead Road last winter and proposed <br /> five-laning it from Calvander to Airport Road, all is well This <br /> optimism rests on oversimplification, to say the least: NCDOT <br /> found that the accident rate on Homestead is already 1.6 times the <br /> state average, even without the additional traffic of Wexford and <br /> other newly approved subdivisions. Road improvements may be <br /> years in coming, all out of Carrboro's control. Old 86, which carries <br /> many more cars and bicycles, particularly south towards the new <br /> school and shopping center, was not studied and is not planned for <br /> widening. <br /> We have raised similarly detailed concerns regarding flooding <br /> hazards downstream, negative fiscal impacts on the town budget, <br /> adequacy of schools and other public facilities, and incompatibilities <br /> with the Small Area Planning process and Carrboro 2000 policies. <br /> The applicants have answered none of these; your planning staff has <br /> responded only by promising that such impacts will be studied before <br /> any Conditional Use Permit is issued. However, rezoning entitles an <br /> owner of land to subdivide to the allowed density-- without any <br /> impact studies at all No CUP need ever be applied for, and no <br /> y'44 -1 <br /> C:eY r <br />