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Buffer designation and allow no commercial construction at that location. • This proposal would not only contradict the concept of the Rural Buffer, but would be a deep gash, probably a mortal injury to it. Nello Teer can already turn a handsane profit on its land,(as above, essentially a windfall profit without any the owners having to incur any "development costs" to "improve" the land before selling it), and there is no reason for local residents or county and town taxpayers to award it an even higher capital gain on its speculative land purchase. We urge that this proposal be rejected outright, as about 90% of the citizens present at the April 6 hearing also ream:tended. In conclusion: a residential development this large and densely packed has no business being so close to the Rural Buffer, and ccamercial development of any kind has no place whatever inside the Buffer. If both of these requests were approved, then New Hope Church Road would quickly become a veritable drag strip, requiring widening to four lanes and several signal lights, and increasing pressure to build what at present is an utterly unnecessary Durham Beltway through some of the most rural and beautiful portions of Orange County. These two proposals constitute a huge step in the direction of having Hillsborough, Durham, and Chapel Hill grow into one urban glob, and present yet another example of developers figuring out devious ways of extracting a capital gain out of the taxpayers and local residents who will eventually have to pay for the social and environmental costs created by their projects. We urge you to stand firm in defense of the Rural Buffer and in opposition to amoebic urbanization, and to reject both requests for a change in land use. Indeed, we would prefer to see developers TAXED (as the town of Chapel Hill is now discussing) as compensation for the future burdens they invariably place on local residents, including those who eventually move into and shop at the developments they build! Best regards, £ - Nargãret A. McKean & 9bhn P. Peraza 3711 Stoneycreek Road Chapel Hill NC 27514 cc: Barry Jacobs, Planning Board P.S. We firmly support the County's effort to expand the designation of Public Interest Districts to Duke Forest in accordance with the conservationist thrust of the recent recommendations approved by the Duke University Board of Trustees, even though the university has been regrettably duplicitous in trying to procure land use designations that would not obligate the university to live up to its own forest use plan. •