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N� DRAFT. Miriam Murdock - Resident of Bingham Township. mardock stressed the ina- pprvpriatenes of this location for an airport. She added the residents sympathized with .residents near Horace William but noted that the Bingham, residents preceeded the airport and the difference between 50 based aircraft and 276 hangared plus tie c4 craft. Murdock referenced the designation of the areas,' for agricultural and rural residential uses and questioned the impact on property values. Murdock sited inadequate highway services, demands on the local tax burden, land consm-el by a nortb/south highway, the Lack of service provided to Hillsborough and northern Orange County, that only 10% of FDU pilots served would move to a site near 1-85, the potential for project failure and the advantages of sites on 1--85/U'S 70, particularly the site recently advertised for sale. Wallace Kaufman - real estate appraiser. Kaufman .indicated he was not an amTediate property owner but an apprai.sor addressing the question of air- ports and land values. Kaufman described his credentials and experience in making a sttatewmt on this matter of impact on property values. He responded to three sep4Wate issues. 1) How do su_`r•,rotrx i ng property uses react to any airport expansion? Citing local examples at Research Tri.ange Park and the expansion of RW, objections to intensive or expanded use of Horace Williams Airport and. the halt on military runs in parts of Chatham County he noted that values will dro as taste and attitude affect real estate value and investment . 2 ) Viat crea#,s value in land near the airport? Kaufman noted the desireability for residential development in rural, quiet sparsely developed areas raises values and protects and enhances values. 3) Mat deteratrines the value of one home vs. another home near an airport? The airport lowers values of homes already there and remains undisturbed by residential uses. Kaufman addressed the concept of compensation by either zoning all the areas industrial and there,'ay raising all Propel values or changing one piece of land for industry and thereby devaluing land for residential use. He noted that approval would clearly affect land value and the highest AFle was residential use inc autpatible with raising the value of the airport land. Speculation of the air port land would raise its value while lowering the value of Vpn. Speculation of surrounding land. He stressed that this view was documented.nted. by canon sense and literature. He added that the County needs an airport but that other areas are mere suitable and land would not be devalued at these areas: where there has been an unanswerd demand for develop rent. Bland Simpson - Resident of Bingham 'Township. Simpson urged. 40UAt of request. and submitted a letter from Dr. and Mrs. slriepler for the record.. Simpson cited Section 8.8.2 of the zoning ordinance as containing the di.. :tionary power of the Board. to weigh and assess evidence for car pliance or lack (with the Zoning ordinance and due process. He 641*4 Section 8.2.2b) must stUe surrounding area due to nature of use ie. air- planes. He noted for Mx. Shoepler that several buyers had withdrawn offers for his land due to the airport proposal., Ihereby causing economic and psychological effects. Simcpson noted. Hazzard's statement at the last. public hearing that the land is worthless for anything but planes, respoazding that the orange County Soil Survey (pps 601-65) references soils of this type as having high p04tial for cram, soybeans, and timber among other. Simpson cited the Naticn3 Agricultural Sands Stud : IIhe Protection of Farmland: A fernce (lade Book for State and Local wgenment Apps. 34- 35 with regard to the "impermanence »ndmm (which) leads to a reduction in on going investment in land inprovements and farm structures and in- creases the unevitabi,.l.ity of the end of agriculture."