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the property by rezoning it as commercial and putting in a mini-storage facility. I feel like it's going to increase the 111 amount of crime that we have in our neighborhood. For his property, I pulled some 911 records and in the last 112 several years there have been robberies by someone I know who has been in jail. I think that putting a storage 113 facility directly behind my house is going to decline the property value of my house and will also affect curb appeal if I 114 choose to sell my home in the future. My biggest concern is the increase and amount of crime we are going to have 115 because everything is open. His business sits on the road front and there is no security. If you stick a mini-storage 116 my backyard, how is it going to be affected? I have children there, we love where we live, and we don't want to 117 move, and I may be forced to move if this happens.118 119 Bal K Sharma: My name is Bal. I live in Cary, but we do have some land next to the truck stop there on Buckhorn 120 Road. We also have combined investments there. This exit has not doubled up enough compared to other exits 121 which I would love to see. In terms of the General Commercial use, it gives more employment opportunities for the 122 citizens. I do support changing into the commercial joining and support this cause. 123 124 David Blankfard: Does the board have any questions? 125 126 Adam Beeman: I have a question for the owner. To elaborate a little on the storage unit. I am looking at the only 127 place that you are going to be able to get into on that property which is on that right or would you pass by the 128 landscaping business if you were to develop in the future?129 130 Chad Huffine: The only thing I can commit to is to respond to some of her concerns and to comment to the property 131 value and the crime deterrent and prevention. I can tell you that access would be from West Ten Rd. and that during 132 the site plan process, the information is provided to DOT and Orange County and that driveway conditions are either 133 approved or not approved. The property has frontage on West Ten Rd. and would be accessible by light.134 135 Adam Beeman: Are there plans to fill that pond in the back of that property?136 137 Chad Huffine: I have no idea. We are in the early stages of the rezoning portion of this.138 139 Adam Beeman: I'm just trying to get information for the neighbors around them to understand a little better. I'm 140 trying to understand what the potential intent is on the back of the property.141 142 Chad Huffine: I took good notes on what I heard the neighbors say, and one thing I can indicate is that property 143 values increase when they are changed in zoning to commercial use. Property values may or may not change if they 144 are rezoned to different residential uses. As development increases around these proposed nodes of industrial and 145 commercial use, commercial properties create value. Adjacent commercial properties create the synergy between 146 those two commercial properties and the property values do seem to increase. Once the project moves forward to 147 site planning, security fencing, cameras, and driveway access is looked at specifically by staff. At this point, we’re 148 just trying to grip the rezoning to start the process.149 150 Patrick Mallett: What we went through in showing the future land-use elements is that this is a part of a bigger 151 strategy. A lot of time went into this plan and in taking a look at properties and what they should be and what they 152 should transition toward as time moves on. In this case, this area is specifically along that northern edge of West153 Ten Rd. going towards Mebane which has always been envisioned for a commercial industrial transition, not 154 residential development. That was not part of the long-term vision which is the basis for our recommendation. If this 155 township were being zoned for the first time today, we would have followed the property line and zoned the entire 156 property commercial. This is the first part of the process that would theoretically include permits: stormwater permits 157 and environmental health permits and site plans. With this zoning, they are proposing that there would be 30-foot 158 land-use buffers along the frontage of the West Ten Rd. and then 100-foot buffer all around the perimeter. Mr. Doby159 has indicated to me that he has a desire to retain the land, find some positive revenue streams to deal with the cost 160 of taxes, and that his vision is to seek for a storage facility in this field area. Mr. Doby also applied for an161 improvement permit for an evaluation based on mini-storage with a schematic for that area which has been an 162 indicator of the intent.163 164 165 7