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Route # 7, Box 121 Hillsborough, NC 27275 September 3, 1990- LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Our recent efforts to reclaim the original Old Chapel Hill Road name for our .-road has involved us with the bureaucracy, mainly the Orange County Planning Department and an unauthorized opinion on Town stationery from Janet Rigsbee of the Town of Hillsborough Planning Department. Some of this leaves us smelling something "rotten in- Denmark ". I want to say up front that my-comments in no way have reference to Don Powell, who has been both helpful and completely above board. Nor does it deal with the fine people involved with building codes, permits, and inspections who are quite competent, capable, and considerate. When we were first instructed by the Orange County Commissioners to circulate a petition, we secured several names of people who did not own land on this road. We were told at that point by the Orange County Planning Department that th o ld only consider names of property owners. Interestingly,�ilgollins of the Planning Department submitted at the August 30th hearing a list of some eighty names of people from around the county (not property owners along Old Chapel Hill Road) to support his opposition to our request for renaming our road. We realize that with sixty--five percent (65 %) of the property owners along our road favoring-Old Chapel Hill Road, Mr. Col -lips senses the possibility of another "L" on his already questionable record and apparently is willing to resort to questionable tactics to secure a ''W" at any cost. Apparently there has also been some collusion between Mr. Collins' office and Ms. Janet V. Rigsbee, Planning Director for th•e Town of Hillsborough, who took it upon herself, without action of her board or the Town Commissioners and on offici -al Town-- stationery to oppose the renaming of our road. The Town Board ofricially endorsed OUT renaming at a recent meeting, and the letter of endorsement was supposed to be read at the August 30th hearing. A representative from the Town apparently "forgot'' 3r;c! read Ms. Rigsbee's letter instead. Ms. Rigsbee's reasons for opposing the landowners' request for - e-,aming sere that it is "try +ditional" to refer to "Old 26 ': cr_nfusion and danger with 911; Subdivision Regulations U,hich say tll t "Extensions of Existing streets bear the name of cxisti:�[� e ±. - "; Expe- of addition.] s ,gr 6Trtj map udit:ing; end that. art.lr:g to U 1 d Ch..apc�l Hill Road would not be "logical' c` c, , - i �4 :,itf Ca r...r_bcr-o, no` -'' ip _, i'1_,. Rigsbee 1a,�1r..' :;t.a,icJs up. f -- ti n =.tior,. Olci ! a;_r1 !1i11 Road ha: d do_.n. Or_,r, - r,,,r+ was or rgir al 1y no-ned 0 ld Chapel 11i 1 1 d