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1:62 4 Mr. Rooks continued that if the project is granted, the Board would lose control over the issues, such a landscaping, recreational facilities, and the Board would have to live with what the Zoning Ordinance requires in R-8 zones. Mr.Rooks, referring to the Zoning Ordinance, cited "Section 20-1 outlining reasons for rezoning'," there is a manifest error" Mr. Rooks said that at the time the zonining ordinance was established that the Board had made "a concious choice as to how to zone this property." He said the Board knew the development was underway and still zoned it R-1. He said, "based on that...I do not believe the Board made a clear error." He said next, the applicant says there "are changed conditions in the area." Mr. Rooks said there were none except the "planned development, The Timbers, the trailer park, farther down on Orange Grove Road, which had gone in since" the Zoning Ordinance was adopted. To his knowledge, Mr. Rooks', there w no other "changed conditions." He said this area was a "gateway" entrance to Hillsborough and the rezoning, if granted, would eliminate this single family residential "gateway." He asked that the request be denied. Mr. Ronald Wagner, a resident of the Orange Grove neighborhood for four years, said that the existing,48 units put in 2 years ago had lowered !i property values. Mr. Wagner said at the time, there were 20 families living in the neighborhood with, for example, four people per home which gave a maximum of 80 people and 40 cars, if two cars per family were allow , Mr. Cates had, Mr. Wagner said, increased the population by 270 people and the vehiclular traffic was increased proportionately. Mr. Wagner said there were no shoulders on Orange Grove Road and kids ride bikes or walk to the store creating a safety hazard. He contended that there were "wrecks almost weekly on Orange Grove Road" in this area. He said kids would ride in the street. iMr. Wagner continued that he lives at the "top ol the hill" and he feared that a child would someday be struck by a car coming over the hill because of the lack of sight distance. He requested that the rezoning from R-1 to R-8 be denied as incompatible with the neighborhood. Dr.Christopher Byrd, Route 2, Box 479, said that Mrs. Ed M Hines, who lives on the south of 1-85 and east of Orange Grove Road was his mother-in-law and he was speaking for her as well as himself. He said Mr. Hines, if he were alive, would have tried to prevent the development from occurring. He said M . Hines had lived in her home for 28 years and every effort