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Approved 11/01/2017 11 really hopes the Board approves the project. If anyone has questions, he will take as long as it takes to answer all of them. He thanked the Board. Lydia Wegman turned to the public for their comments. She thanked them for being patient and asked people who wanted to speak to come forward to the microphone. Beth Rosenberg said that she lives off Davis Road and she is in the same boat as Ms. Piracci. She did not know about this important meeting until she saw a sign. She did not find information about the project online. She wished that the developers had also met with property owners in the area at large since the interstate entrance/exit she uses to get home is the same entrance/exit as the proposed development. Her neighborhood will be impacted. She noted that already Old 86 can get busy with back-ups from the highway and more traffic on Interstate 40 is concerning. She is also concerned about environmental impacts of the project on her neighborhood. Lydia Wegman thanked Ms. Rosenberg for her comments. She noted that the notification requirement is only to property owners within 1,000 feet of the subject property/properties of the intended development. Janet Marks said that she lives off of Davis Road in a small neighborhood. They chose their neighborhood because they could easily get to Interstates 40 and 85 but also live in the country. As a neighborhood, they have not been involved in the discussion. The signs on the side of the road notifying the public about these meetings were too hard to read and were put in places where it was too dangerous to pull-off the road and read them. She said that there is so much traffic already (for example, 4 dead squirrels on the road in one day). Both the heavy as well as the light environmental impacts all matter. Living in the country to her means that lights are dim. She conveyed her frustration in not being included in the neighborhood meeting process; her neighborhood is very much impacted by this proposed development. Gerald Scarlett said that his driveway is Scarlett Mountain Road, the southern boundary of the subject property. His property goes about a half a mile back into the woods. While he came with a lot of questions tonight, he is not going to ask them because they involved District 3. One of his main concerns is with water. If the County is so concerned about “going green” and renewable energies, the point should be made that there are no renewables for water. He said that he lives at a high elevation and has a line of sight to the Sharon Harris Nuclear Power Plant when the skies are clear. The proposed development is at a lower level than his property. His well was made 250 feet down through solid granite. Even though the discussion has been about public water infrastructure, the development document online shows the digging of wells for landscaping purposes, and the wells would be used when storm retention ponds are dry, for irrigation. This is of great concern – if retention ponds are dry during a drought and then the wells will be used and he may not be able to get access to water while the trees in the development look nice and pretty. This concerns him as an individual and he thinks it should concern everybody in that area. He does not know how big the water table is but he thinks it needs to be considered. He is also concerned about traffic. He knew a development like this would be coming since the state took part of his property to build interstate 40. It is incumbent on the County and the state to do something about Old 86 before this kind of development goes in, or at the same time. Driving from Carrboro to Hillsborough on Old 86 can be dangerous. Bicycle lanes may be created for this project but bicycles are going to be traveling from Old 86 to get there. He hopes that the Board and the developer will consider his comments. He said that for himself, he would say leave everything like it is, but he is trying not to be one of those people. He asked that they consider the problem of timing for this. Vicki R. Berry introduced herself and said that the former speaker was one of her school mates. She said that she is a Hillsborough native and involved in Hillsborough activities. She said that she and her family live off Old 86 South, on a small farm. She talked about her upbringing of going to a church and being a part of a sharing community of love and hope, not destroying and taking from each other, and displacing families. She said that she and her family want to stay where they are and nurture it to be what it once was and help it to grow. She is not against economic growth; she is for it and for schools and for health. She recently retired to take care of her granddaughter and is from a family of artists, attorneys and teachers. They all want economic growth but with less congestion, less development and other populations moving in. Such big changes can all be detrimental to children and their growth and development. Maybe there could be development of schools along the development area. She is also considered 21