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14 <br /> Mr. Carey: Are there any questions? One question. <br /> Unidentified Citizen: Comment unintelligible. <br /> Carol Zinn: If, lot 28 is separated from lot 27, than it <br /> would be mostly in Orange County part of it would be in <br /> Durham County-Durham City. Actually the curious thing is <br /> that the fellow who we bought this land from never paid taxes <br /> in Orange County always paid Durham taxes, yet he has this <br /> little 6t with 1.45 acres that was in Orange County and his <br /> home is on the site that we want to call lot 28, so his house <br /> was actually in Orange County. <br /> Mr. Carey: Ms. Marshall? Other questions? <br /> Unidentified Citizen: Comment unintelligible. <br /> Carol Zinn: No, we don't have a problem with them. They <br /> just have this little sliver going through and the house site <br /> is in the part that has already been approved by Durham City. <br /> Mr. Carey: Mr. Willhoit. <br /> Don Willhoit: On the lot the house that is to be built <br /> on, whatt school district is it in? <br /> Carol Zinn: Durham. <br /> Mr, Carey: Gentleman, right here, yes. <br /> Unidentified citizen: Did you purchase this land without <br /> knowing that part of it was in Orange County? <br /> Carol Zinn: Yes, I know you think that I should have known <br /> and I should have been but I wasn't. Yes. <br /> Unidentified citizen: Comment unintelligible. <br /> Carol Zinn: Yes, and I think there's a reasonable <br /> explanation for that. The tax maps are not accurate. The <br /> tax map showed a much smaller portion that was in 'Orange <br /> County, much smaller, it didn't look like any problem at all, <br /> and when it was finally surveyed we saw that it was larger <br /> and we were told initially by the Planning Staff and Orange <br /> County by a new employee, I would think, on the Planning <br /> Staff that it was an administrative matter and there was no <br /> problem at all. We went through the whole approval process <br /> with Durham City believing that and then right near the end <br /> when we were about to file our final plat, we found out that <br /> we indeed had a larger problem than we thought. Lot 28, if <br /> you look at what is now 27, that is twice as large as the <br /> other lots in the neighborhood and approximately half the way <br /> coming across the left of that lot, lot 28 would start. <br />