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a <br /> 14 <br /> --_.---_---.- ------ - - 1-. -man. 26� <br /> broad public input over a broad period of time and should <br /> stand for quite some time. Thank you. <br /> Mr. Carey: Thank you. I indicated earlier that we would <br /> entertain questions from the audience to either the County or <br /> the proponent of either the projects but we don't want to get <br /> into an exchange among the individuals who are making <br /> presentations. If you have a question, please preserve it, <br /> if it's addressed to the County but we don't want to get into <br /> a dialogue among the speakers tonight. <br /> Mr. Carey: The next person is Mr. Trawick and the next <br /> person is Mr. Lloyd Gardner. <br /> Mr. Trawick: I live along the Gulfcreek, not too far <br /> upstream from the proposed development and I'm speaking to <br /> some extent for the neighbors that live along the street that <br /> I live on and I would like to say that the main reason that <br /> . we object to the zoning change is that the area out there <br /> along New Hope Church' Road is currently and rapidly <br /> developing in the direction of low density residential use. <br /> As I understand it this was the original intent of the <br /> establishment of the Rural Buffer. Today from Arthur Minnie <br /> Road to the west all the way over to Old NC 10, is a mix of <br /> houses that blend into the surrounding countryside. As a <br /> matter of fact, you can drive along the road and I'm sure in <br /> the 9 years that I've lived out there the population is <br /> probably increased by 10 to 20 fold. But the only evidence <br /> you see today of that population increase are mailboxes and <br /> small gravel driveways that connect the houses to the main <br /> road. In fact, this new growth is going to be serviced, or <br /> is planned to be serviced, by what will be a model elementary <br /> . school located less than a mile from the intersection of 1-40 <br /> and New Hope Church Road. The point is that things are going <br /> fine out there now. We do have development, we have managed <br /> development, we have managed growth. One other point that <br /> I'd like to make is that to say that low density residential • <br /> development is inconsistent with 1-40 is to ignore some of <br /> the recent house construction along the interstate between <br /> New 86 and 15-501 exit. In fact, one of the biggest houses <br /> I've ever seen in my life abuts the 1-40 quarter just a few <br /> hundred feet from New 86 so I think this is an inconsistent <br /> form of logic. I had some other points I wanted to make but, <br /> When you have an exit 2 miles to the south and you have an <br /> exit 2 miles to the north, both of which are already zoned <br /> • and willing and capable and able and wanting the kind of <br /> • development that is proposed for New Hope Church Road <br /> interchange and having the development focused on New Hope <br /> Church Road instead of these other 2 alternatives I find <br /> totally. incomprehensible. I'm sure that the Commissioners <br /> and the Planning board members will continue their program of <br /> manage growth and I. hope that we can continue to have the <br /> managed growth and I hope that we can continue to have the <br />