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January 29, 1991 To: Board of County Commissioners From; Jean Stanford Mann 8422 Stanford Road Chapel Hill, N. C. 27516 Subject: Proposed widening of Highway 54 41 D�@ �ad� IA�, 3 01991 D I am writing to let your board know that I oppose the widening of Highway 54. I live on Stanford Road in Bingham Township where our family farm is located. We own land on both sides of Highway 54 and have several years ago been forced to sell a large portion of our land to OWASA for the Cane Creek Reservoir. In 1972 8.65 acres were sold to the N.C. Highway Commission to improve Highway 54. I am not convinced that there is a need to have more land taken by government. We travel Highway 54 everyday and only on UNC sports events or student holidays do we see an increase in traffic. I think your Board should do some studies of traffic midway between Chapel Hill and Graham. I feel that widening this road will just increase traffic and development in this area. It will become a shortcut to Carrboro and Chapel Hill and to Highway 40. I am especially concerned for the 48 residences and businesses which would be destroyed. We know many of these families and these are friends: I would suggest that you request the DOT spend money on paving many,of the dirt roads in the county which are very difficult to live on. Better still, spend our tax money on education, children's needs and the elderly,'etc. Let's protect our land, our houses, our businessess, and our environment. If this project proceeds it will cause much pain to many of the citizens of rural Orange County by destroying their homes and their land.