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Route # 7, Box 121 <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />August 31, 1990 <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />P. O. Box 8181 <br />Hillsborcugh, �dorth Carolina 27270 _ <br />Dear Sirs and Madam: <br />Thank you for the opportunity to participate in what I thought <br />would be a fair hearing of the desi, -es of the landowners along <br />our road-held last night. After the hearing on May 29, 1990, I <br />felt real good about the manner in which you handled our request <br />and proceeded to move on they petition that you asked us to <br />secure. <br />Our honest effort on the petition seems to have fallen on deaf <br />ears. We would have hoped that sixty -five (65% percent of the <br />landowners on our road favoring a name change to Old Chapel Hill <br />Drive would have received more respect. These citizens and <br />landowners deserve the right to the pride which comes with living <br />on a street or road named according to their choosing. The <br />climate of the meeting last night was that you are willing to <br />ignore, not only the petitioners, but those who spoke in favor of <br />the renaming because only ONE landoL•)ner spoke against it. <br />In the hearing you allowed the presentation of evidence of "some <br />eighty names" of people tyho are not even landowners along our - <br />road. You also allowed ane person to suggest that he could get <br />seventy or eighty names of people against the change from <br />Hillsborough to Car- rborc. No one informed the person that we arcs <br />not dealing with -the entire road, but just froth I -85 to New <br />Hope /Arthur Minnis Road. When we first started working our <br />petition, we were told Ly the Llanninq Department- that t_ -hey would <br />Only ccnsider- -,amen of . _.ctual i ando-•ar-ers along our road. It <br />certainly appears that the planning people are now using dirty, <br />underhanded tricks in order to gain their desires. I would hope <br />that the Commissioners would -not allow this. <br />Regarding the letter from Mrs. Rigsbee of the Town of Hillsborough <br />Fla) -�ning Board, I have learned that her letter (on Town <br />stationery) ._a not authorized by the Town Board, and I waa told <br />by ne Hi 11c-bL rough authority that her action was influenced by <br />�1; -. Litt,ni —, t,ho i5 C017ne. -toed with U po- oposed shopping cV enter.° <br />so,_Iti, c'f Hi 1 � �_bcrough. I h, .Ave 5pcdke , to M,r-. hi ttmi_tin 6.,ho <br />that he did not oppose the (old Chapel Hill name and that he ;,)ill <br />Le - .end ;- a l i.'t ter to th i s Pffe_ t . Doe, th i _. r ee ,. c- if <br />F . , , =. ; , .-J t ~i t r. , f i .. t F =' l 1 <br />.ir _ L; f y - 7: j F l sire the i. 7 - C.. d t,•, "i . <br />I <br />