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9 <br /> LAW OFFICES <br /> COLEMAN, GLEDHILL & HARGRAVE ALONZO BROWN COLEMAN,JR. <br /> A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION GEOFFREY E.GLEDHILL <br /> DOUGLAS HARGRAVE <br /> 129 E.TRYON STREET <br /> P.O.DRAWER 1529 KIM K.STEFFAN <br /> HILLSBOROUGH,NORTH CAROLINA 27278 JANET B.DUTTON <br /> (919)732-2196 <br /> FAX(919)732-7997 <br /> July 16 , 1993 <br /> Mr . Robert R. Phillips <br /> Right-of-Way Agent <br /> North Carolina Department of Transportation <br /> 331 West Main Street, Suite 100 <br /> Durham, North Carolina 27701 <br /> RE: DOT Parcel No. 18 <br /> I.D. No. I-304E; Orange County-owned Property at the <br /> Intersection of I-85 and Buckhorn Road <br /> Dear Bob: <br /> This letter confii111s Orange County' s position and our <br /> discussions at my office on Friday, July 16 , 1993 . By resolution <br /> on December 7 , 1992 , the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> agreed to sell to the North Carolina Department of Transportation <br /> for the sum of $6 , 645 a portion of a lot that it owns which lot <br /> is at the intersection of Interstate 85 and Buckhorn Road in <br /> Orange County. The County's agreement to sell the land in <br /> question to the North Carolina Department of Transportation was <br /> based on an Offer to Purchase and a map which accompanied it <br /> depicting the property in question. This agreement on the part <br /> of the County to sell the property for the price offered was <br /> based on the property being taken being what was represented in <br /> the Offer to Purchase; specifically, 1/4 of an acre . Thereafter, <br /> DOT surveyed the property in question in order to produce a <br /> recordable deed for the property to be purchased from Orange <br /> County by N. C . DOT. And, that survey revealed ( 1) that the DOT <br /> project would take a considerably larger portion of Orange <br /> County-owned property and, ( 2 )' that a house previously thought to <br /> be located entirely on an adjoining parcel was in fact located in <br /> part on Orange County's property. The survey reveals that, in <br /> fact, . 68 acres of Orange County land is to be acquired rather <br /> than . 25 acres . <br /> The survey resulted in a new appraisal perfoimed by DOT. <br /> The new appraisal states that the value of the taking is $8 ,200 , <br /> only $1,555 more than the previous offer notwithstanding the fact <br /> that the property to be acquired by DOT is more than twice as <br /> large . The new appraisal actually values the property to be <br /> taken at $13 , 350 but reduces that amount for purposes of the <br />