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_ ` A <br />September 10, 1992 <br />4112 Powder IAHI Road _ <br />Chapel Hill, NC C`' <br />Orange County Planning Board <br />% Ms. Joanna Bradshaw <br />Orange County Planning Dept. <br />306 Revere Road <br />Hillsborough, NC. 27278 <br />and <br />Orange County Commissioners <br />% Ms. Beverly Blyth <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Dear Planning Board Members / County Commissioners: <br />SEP I i 19j <br />I am writing to voice my opposition to the proposed development called <br />University Station, and to request that you vote against changing the Land <br />Use Plan to allow urban development in our rural areas. <br />I have been a resident in the Powder Mill neighborhood for four years and a <br />resident of Orange County for 18 years. <br />The primary issue for me is .maintaining this area as rural in nature rather <br />than urban. Adding 2000 to 2500 people in this 665 acre tract would <br />drastically change the nature of the area from its present state, and the <br />nature of the development here for the past 15 years. <br />My rough estimate of the density in the develool2ed neighborhoods along <br />New Hope Church Road is one house per 8 to 12 acres (and that's the <br />developed areas - not counting the farms). The proposed development is 20 <br />times this, and indeed would seem to be after Chapel Hill and Carboro the <br />most dense area in the County (I say "seem" as I don't think Hillsborough as <br />a whole is as densely developed as the proposed site). <br />This land could be developed at a density of as high as one house per 3 -4 <br />acres without changing the rural nature of the area, and without causing the <br />road and school problems associated with adding 2500 additional people. <br />