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•• PAGE 15 • T • 9 1 - . Alan Seiferheld agreed with Commissioner Marshall's comments. The plan for the area was rural low-density.- He moved to this area eight months ago partly because it 3 was close to the new interstate and is rural. The possible density using three people 4 per family means that the minimum number would be 1700 and the maximum could be 5 22,440. Seiferheld stated he did not move from Cary to be in the middle of an area 5 . like that, Approving this recommendation opens this area up to high-density. The 7 '•' voices you hear supporting this change are motivated by a desire to develop this area 8 for profit. .. 3 `` '' George Brumley', owner of 30 acres across the street from the proposed new 1 ':. •subdivision disagreed strongly with the previous speaker. He feels that new families 2:==in this area will be to our advantage.. He does not want to see his property values 3' • diminished:. "Relating to Hr.--.- Mitchell's concern, a park is very desirable for this large. stale development offers the potential to acquire a park, .whereas there 5 - is not that opportunity with the smaller developments. 7 :' ': = Spence Dickinson felt that this property was naturally in the Rural Buffer Area. 8 In the past 18 years the farm mentioned as not being used has been a dairy farm, a 9 horse farm, a summer. camp and last year it was farmed for crops. This property has 0 $300,000 to $400•,000 worth of agricultural buildings. It is filled with wildlife.. He 1 is not opposed to planned development but is opposed to 20,000 people moving into this 2 area. . He is also opposecl: to more farmland being destroyed. Putting in sewer is not a 3 ;.negative.. However, having a large•number. of people is unacceptable. .. - .5 =:= -, Joe Wordburn;• President' of the Stonycreek Neighborhood Association, spoke for 6::;that:Association.::•:•-They are not opposed to- residential and commercial development in -7.: ,Orange_••County: They,are_very concerned about any large development which would alter= _$'`the:;character..of Orange County. including the Rural Buffer and Duke Forest. . This 575• • I 19�:':.•acre tract is'in"an"extremely important.•rural area that protects- the towns' of Chapel -. ;p •Hill; Durham and•Hillsborough from growing together. into a big urban sprawl:- Any: - . 1.:;.;.change: in the Land Use Plan. that would allow' another city to spring•up within the next ;2•=,:.^decade.makes.a• mockery,of'the'plans that have been nurtured by the. Commissioners over ;3A: the:course of the past' decade::- He asked that the Board not allow such a breach to • The.best way to control. that is to, control the density' of the• land use over a :5 ' long period of time.::= =.: : ' • �7:_,. : �. •,Todd Yarning, a resident of the N.C. 10 area along Strayhorn Hills, encouraged the 39-_; Commissioners, to:leave the-Land Use Plan intact.- He stated that the attorney for the 9•• University Station Associates paints a very attractive picture but there is no 40 - guarantee. about what they will really do with this land, He noted the development . • :1:-,.,could end up with.7,000 homes. He asked what will this do to services and the roads: part' of- the- rural'nature of Orange County. This area deserves. attention and _3 .:.preservation :' He asked that the Board please• leave the current Land Use Plan intact. 45 .Peter. Pippens, resident of Orange County, was told by the Planning' Department • . 46 that. 10 year. transition means that in 10 years the.transition area would be ' 47-- Hillsborough City limits._,,_He•expressed opposition to this. • • clarified this stating that it means that the character of the - 30 :.development' in that area would be urban in nature. If it did develop urban and the 51. Town of Hillsborough was serving it with public water and sewer, it could be brought -2 into their corporate limits by annexation. . 73 • - 74 Roy Roth of the Stonycreek Area spoke in opposition to this development. He 55 • 56 ' 57 • 58