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it j! <br /> 2 <br /> and commercialization which are taken for granted in this report <br /> would work squarely against this effort and destroy the quality <br /> of one of the few remaining attractive approaches to the town. <br /> Second, the report ignores entirely the costs and <br /> disadvantages for the existing citizens of Hillsborough and <br /> Orange County of the industrialization and commercialization <br /> of this area. The report "recognizes" "the locational advantages <br /> and opportunities for non-residential development of the area". <br /> "Advantages and opportunities" for whom? And upon whom do the <br /> costs of this development fall? Evidence seems to be very <br /> strong that development of the kind assumed here brings higher <br /> taxes not lower ones. The tax base is enlarged but so are the <br /> demands for services even more: for schools, water and sewer, <br /> polite and fire protection, etc. It is clearly evident that <br /> the tax rates of larger, rapidly-growing cities in North <br /> Carolina are far higher than those in Hillsborough. Does anyone <br /> believe that with development Hillsborough's taxes will not <br /> foil w suit? Should the report not point out that this <br /> increase in taxes will surely be a result of the "non-residential <br /> development" here proposed and estimate what this cost will be <br /> to taxpayers? <br /> .: i But in addition, the proposed development will bring other <br />