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25 <br />August 18, 1989 <br />Editor <br />Chapel Hill Herald <br />106 tlaliette St., <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br />On the agenda of the August 28 public hearing before the Orange County hoard <br />of Commissioners is an innocuous sounding request for a zoning change near the <br />intersection of New Hope Church Road and J -40. Envirotek Inc. requests that <br />265 acres be rezoned from rural buffer to agricultural residential. However, <br />:hen one realizes that Envirotek Inc. is a front oryanixation for the Ivello <br />Teer Co., this request takes on rather frightening dimensions. If this <br />property is rezoned, Nello Teer can then request a special use permit that <br />will allow the destruction of these 265 acres by the development of a massive <br />gravel quarry. <br />Last April Envirotek floated a similar "wolf -in- sheep's clothing" request. At <br />this time, they requested that approximately 400 acres of the rural buffer at <br />the New Hope Church Road .interchange be rezoned to allow the construction of a <br />gas station, bakery, and other commercial establishments. During the April <br />public hearing, it soon became obvious that this maneuver was a thinly veiled <br />ruse by the Nello Teer Co. to obtain quarrying rights in the buffer. The, <br />planning board and the county commissioners voted unanimously to deny the <br />Envirotek request, and many of us were naive enough 'to think that this phase <br />of the issue was settled - -at least for a while. <br />Well, we were wrong, and I urge all concerned citizens to attend the August <br />28th public hearing in Hillsborough and voice their opposition to the <br />continuing efforts of the Nello Teer Co. to blight the Orange County landscape <br />with a permanent scar, a scar I might add, that could extend well beyond the <br />265 acres currently in question. <br />Sincerel , <br />�_Trawi'Ck Ward <br />5209 Walnut Cove Rd. <br />Chapel Hill 27516 <br />Ph 929 -6702 <br />