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, . _- DRAFT:: J . . . _. He cited th , acreage directly and indirectly removed from agriculture as well as conflicts between the use and its impacts with Goals 3,5 and 7 in the ()rani County Land Use Plan. Simpson erbradei sympathy to residents near Horace Williams noting UNC was Litrearrionigetc6Orte*YOrddit'iTeit3r/idit.koi 7Z7,311/17,171,-yeuerclosed. He requested that all references to UNC be sticken from project Li documents since they are uncommitted. 1 Simpson referenced sites 19 and 20 in the Airport Sites Study as well as a 137 acre tract advertised along 1-85. Citing Goal 12.6 in the Land Use Plan he urgea continued consideration of a County owned general aviation airport that would be financially accountable. He noted a number of land use goals would be violated by approval and that the Board has the legal right to denY the request and earn a place in the protection of N.C. lands. I Kizer requested Simpson submit documents referenced for the record. Ralph Warren - BinghimaltunShip resident. Warren addressed procedural questions: 1) Are we here properly with resdammittal of request and is the time interval appropriate? Article 20 amendment procedures references.significant change to land use in Orange County as subject to a resubmittal time frame. He added that the rezoning .amendment procedures are virtuall y the same as a special use and the same operations should apply to address the multiple hazard if not double jeapardy issue. 2) Since the staff present the findings of fact, what if valuable information is presented later which would affect findings of fact. 3) Section 8.2.2 addresseaffects of use on land owners but the primary though less specific concerns are not weighed as heavily as the specific considerations. Whitted indicated that the legality of these procedural questions would be researched. Dan Eddelman - Bingham Township resident. Edditoman expressed concerns About the impact an the existing and preferred land uses in the area noting 5% ofIthe population of Orange County live in Bimglaam Township yet Bingham Township accounted for 20% of the building permits, adding this would substantiate the need for zoning and the conflicting land use potential of the airport. Eddlibman noted that if an airport did not affect the public health, safety and welfare then why was the opposition to Horace Williams so committed. Eddleman addressed the impact of land vIaues noting a neighboring land owners concerns about building on the land. I Ed Johnson iBinghan Township resident. Johnson reviewed possible con- sequences of the proposed project. He took issue with the estimate of 500 operations per day noting Btrlington Municipal with 63 based planes had 51,000 operations per year, 809 per plane; Southern Pines with 48 planes had 33,000 operations per year; RDU with 195 private based craft had 197,000 operations; Gastonia with 71 planes and the largest airport without commercial planes had 57,000 opera-lions; and Horace Williams had 50 planes with 35,000 operations. In Horace William ecluivelant units the proposedlair traffic (750 operations x 26 planes = 207,500 operations) amounted to five Horace Williams. I , Johnson continued relating the proposal to the 20-40% ratio of hangared to tieCdownIcraft to equal 690 planes, 517,000 operations per year at 15- Horace Williams. Johnson asked how this could be compatihie with the