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D R A F T development on these properties would have to abide by but the rezoning of these parcels would mean that the 834 concept access management strategy developed as part of the Settler’s Point MPD-CZ would not have to be 835 followed and from our standpoint, it is more appropriate to give these individual property owners a path forward to 836 development of their property as compliant with the various 18 or so pages of conditions associated with the Settler’s 837 Point MPD-CZ would be difficult for them to abide by.838 839 Bob Bundschuh: And water and sewer?840 841 Michael Harvey: I’m sorry sir; I forgot the water and sewer. These parcels are intended nor are they slated to be 842 served by water and sewer. In order for any of these eight parcels to get water/sewer, it is my opinion they would 843 have to request annexation of the Town of Hillsborough. My apologies for that. This rezoning does not somehow 844 give them the ability to tap onto water/sewer inconsistent with what the Town’s original reaction was back when 845 Settler’s Point was being reviewed.846 847 Franklin Garland: So, Mr. Harvey, it’s my understanding with these eight parcels and pretty much everything else out 848 there that what you decide goes and even though the ethics part of our webpage out here says that you can’t do that, 849 you just gonna railroad everything through no matter what as you saying this is not going to go to the Board of 850 Commissioners, what you’re doing right now. That they would have no say, they can’t tell you no, and hold on hold 851 on, I’m not done….852 853 Michael Harvey: No sir, this Zoning Atlas amendment has to go to the County Commissioners for eventual approval, 854 the development of these properties, as individual parcels would be handled by the staff consistent with the 855 requirements of the Unified Development Ordinance as all permitted land uses would be handled.856 857 Franklin Garland: Ok, so if you spending all this time and energy and all this money on it and all the people out here, 858 I can get 20 or 30 thousand people to go against what you’re trying to propose, you have wasted all this money and it 859 will go to the Board of Commissioners and they gonna say, well we agree with the community, maybe they will this 860 time. Apparently, you don’t. You don’t live here, I don’t know where you live, you know. I don’t know where the 861 Commissioners live, I don’t know where the rest of the Board lives but apparently they’re not being affected by this 862 because they could care less, including you, ok. I would really appreciate it if actually some of the Commissioners 863 and some of these planning people came and looked at these properties. I will gladly let you on my property and 864 show you what I mean. I have a drone I can fly over so you can see it because apparently you going by maps and 865 that’s good enough and that’s not good enough for the people that live here by the way. You know what’s good 866 enough is for you to leave us alone.867 868 David Blankfard: Thank you Mr. Garland869 870 Steve Kaufmann: Can I have video too. My name is Steve Kaufmann and I did receive a letter from the County for 871 this. First, let me introduce myself as a resident of Hillsborough for 25 years. I moved here to be a school teacher 872 here and I moved on Davis Road and like everyone else has spoken about Davis Road, I just love this road it’s like a 873 dream come true moving here and I opened up a martial arts school here. I’ve been teaching martial arts in 874 Hillsborough for 25 years also. Driving on Old 86 on my way to work, I saw some land for sale on the east side right 875 near 40 and I wanted to build a martial arts school so I purchased that land that was actually zoned for schools at 876 that time. Unfortunately, there as a moratorium for six months going on while I was purchasing it and once the 877 moratorium was over I was no longer able to build a school on it. So I’ve been waiting for 20 years and I had the 878 opportunity to have a school on it when Settler’s Point was approved because basically the codes changed a lot 879 during that time which they’re present still. Because of what Michael Harvey explained, it’s impossible for anyone to 880 do anything with that property given that everyone has to work together because there’s traffic ordinances and lots of 881 details that take lots of money to do anything within any of that property. So, I don’t want people to inflate those 882 properties on the east side with the this humongous thing that’s going on with the west side. They are very very 883 different things. I purchased this property exactly 20 years ago; I’m like a newcomer there. I purchased it from a 884 family who had lived there for generations and all my neighbors have lived there for generations, I mean, I’m 885 definitely the new guy there after 20 years. All those people have had property for many years and I don’t know what 886 they are planning to do with it but I don’t see anyone eager to build with it, they are just sitting on it, including myself 887 at the moment. We’re very very close to I-40 there’s already Dodson’s Construction is already a business right near 888 40 that’s been a business there ever since I’ve been there and that’s right next door to my house. Whatever is going 889 18