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From: Margo T. Pinkerton <BC@zapphoto.com> <br />Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 4:45 PM <br />To: Tina Love <tlove@orangecountync.gov> <br />Cc: Ronn Sieber (rdsieber@gmail.com) <rdsieber@gmail.com>; Mare Hermanson <br />(Hermanson.mary@gmail.com) <Hermanson.mary@gmail.com>; Denny Hermanson <br />(dennishermanson@gmail.com) <dennishermanson@gmail.com>; Arnie Zann <br />(Arnie@BCphotoadventures.com) <Arnie@BCphotoadventures.com> <br />Subject: [EXTERNAL MAIL!] Opposed to PROCESSING OF NEW MASTER PLAN DEVELOPMENT <br />CONDITIONAL ZONING DISTRICT (MPD-CZ) APPLICATION – RESEARCH TRIANGLE LOGISTICS PARK (RTLP) <br />Importance: High <br /> <br />To: Orange County Planning Board <br /> <br />I am vehemently opposed to the above cited application for Research Triangle Logistics Park. When we <br />bought our house in Cornwallis Hills in 2005, we thought we were buying in a residential neighborhood <br />that was relatively quiet except for the I-40 traffic noise. With the advent of Waterstone, it is near <br />impossible for the residents of Cornwallis Hills to exit via Lafayette Drive. When that <br />development/complex was put in, we were assured we would get a traffic light. That was a lit, because <br />while the wiring for it is there, it was never done. I must assume that the NC-DOT is waiting for a traffic <br />fatality before they will do anything. <br /> <br />Now, the County Planning Board wants to lower our property values, reduce our quality of life, and <br />remove the relative peace and quiet of our neighborhood by adding RTLP at our borders and that of the <br />residential neighborhoods on or near Davis Road. Already, traffic has made it noisy and unsafe at the <br />junction of Lafayette Drive and Old-86. Impatient people regularly and illegally use the turning lane into <br />Cates Creek Parkway as a passing zone. I have complained about this numerous times, and the NC-DOT <br />will do nothing, citing parameters within which they have to work. The exit out of Lafayette Drive <br />heading north onto Old-86 is impossible if one were to stay within the lines. One would have to come to <br />nearly a dead stop in order to make the turn somewhat back over your left shoulder, something that is <br />totally unsafe. Again, the NC-DOT doesn’t care. <br /> <br />Now, the Planning Board must be looking at its pockets rather than at the citizens it is supposed to <br />serve. You want to add more traffic to an already dangerous and congested corridor by bringing 18 <br />wheelers from I-85 down Old-86, through Hillsborough’s Historic District, and past the Cornwallis <br />Neighborhood to service this ill-conceived project that the developers and the Planning Board are trying <br />to ram down our throats. This is totally unacceptable and frankly smacks of political skullduggery and <br />corruption. And what you are planning to do at the entrance to Davis Road is totally unacceptable, too. <br /> <br />No one is going to persuade me that there are not other sites better suited to this project, for example <br />where US-70 meets I-40 at the western end, off Route 1144. <br /> <br />Please do not lower our property values. Please allow us to maintain a residential feel to our <br />neighborhoods. Pick a site away from residential areas. Work with the NC-DOT before the fact, not put <br />the traffic in the hands of the NC-DOT after the fact as has been the case with recent, ill-conceived <br />developments. <br /> <br />And please point me to a site, such as that of the County Commissioners, where I can see a bio of each <br />one of you. Orange County needs transparency. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br /> Margo T. Pinkerton <br /> Cornwallis Hills <br />104