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32 <br /> <br /> <br />Thank you, <br /> <br />Michael and Susan Debartolo 4403 Mystic Lane <br />Jack and Colleen Gilbert 4325 Sugar Ridge Road <br />Jack and Colleen Gilbert 4587 Bradshaw Quarry Road <br />Jack and Colleen Gilbert 4601 Bradshaw Quarry Road <br />Daniel and Dee Gura 4529 Mystic Lane <br />Bonnie Hauser 4301 Sugar Ridge Road <br />Tommy Holmes 4311 Bradshaw Quarry Road <br />T. Truitt Holmes B&H Drive (via Tommy Holmes) <br />David Holmes 4517 Bradshaw Quarry Road <br />Fletcher Holmes 4516 Bradshaw Quarry Road <br />Robert Idol 4801 Bradshaw Quarry Road <br />Michael Kirk 4310 Bradshaw Quarry Road <br />Gray Loeblein 4312 Mystic Lane <br />Ben and Susan Nichols 6614 Orange Grove Road <br />Jeff Stephens 4515 Mystic Lane <br />Kathleen Teague 4317 Sugar Ridge <br /> <br />Susan Debartolo showed a map and said the neighbors, who signed the letter read by <br />the first speaker, are opposed to the MST on their property. She said they are willing to help <br />find another area for this trail. <br />William Charles said he is a property owner in Cane Creek subdivision, and he asked <br />the Board to delay the MTS route. He said they are opposed, and will block this route. He said <br />the easier routes are through Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) property, but this <br />has legal problems, and OW ASA said they did not want to host a standalone trail, and a <br />southern or northern leg would have to be completed to gain OWASA approval. He said to find <br />a route that works, and then approve it. <br />Edward Mann asked the BOCC not to adopt the route, and asked staff to listen to the <br />community and create a route that is doable. <br />Alan Green said he would like to stay focused on what is actually being requested: <br />approval of a route that runs from Saxapahaw to Occoneechee Mountain that utilizes public <br />roads as an interim route from Saxapahaw to the OWASA property, and north to Occoneechee. <br />He said this does not require any landowners to involuntarily surrender their lands. He said the <br />goal is to secure connectivity from Saxapahaw to segment 12 in Orange County. <br />Ed Johnson said he is for the trail route, and eager to grant an easement across his <br />property to Buckhorn Road. He said he hoped the BOCC would endorse the broad outline. <br />Justin Veneza said he represented a lot of people in his community along Bradford <br />Ridge Road who are against the trail route for many reasons, including the number of young <br />children that live in this area. <br />Terri Buckner thanked the BOCC for acknowledging their petition, and when <br />Commissioner Jacobs made the motion to accept their petition, it was to be a conceptual map <br />only, not tract level. She said the Friends of MST would work with DEAPR and community <br />members to support this, and not to impose the MST on those who do not want it. <br />Commissioner McKee said to David Stancil that he keeps hearing some are opposed <br />and some are in agreement with projected path of trail, but he is unclear on the exact numbers <br />who favor or oppose it. He said in order to be able to be informed and vote on it he would like <br />to know how many actual landowners support it and how may oppose it. He said he has asked <br />repeatedly for this information.