Agenda - 09-15-20; 5-c - Proposed Amendments to the Town of Hillsborough - OC Central Orange Coordinated Area (COCA) Land Use Plan and to the OC Comp Plan Future Land Use Map (FLUM)

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made up their mind that this is going to happen. That’s not the democratic way. That’s called a fascist way when you 112 do it that way. It’s very offensive, most people are offended by this and we’re trying to put a stop to this. By the way, 113 I think this is a ridiculous way to hold a meeting. I am going to add that, that we have 42 attendees where in person 114 you would probably have several thousand today, ok. It’s not valid for anybody in there, we actually are trying to take 115 some legal action on this as well. I will have more to say, I have a statement that I mailed out to the Commissioners 116 already, I hope that they have the courtesy to read it, I asked them to actually reply via email, text, call any which way 117 that they had actually received the email. I have one of the Commissioners actually respond, that said they received 118 it, not that they had read it, it would be nice if they actually went with how their constituency actually feels. I think 119 they are the ones that count out here. Again, like I said earlier, as that our residents come first and you’re putting the 120 Town of Hillsborough first. You’re putting the Planning Board first, what the whims are there. We are perfectly happy 121 with our wells, we don’t want city water necessarily out here. We don’t want city sewer, we are out of the Town, we 122 don’t want to be annexed and this is not just me. I happen to hold a chunk of property that is immediately adjacent to 123 this that I’m structure out there that basically, 2.5 million square feet big. This is about 3 times the size of Carter 124 Findlay Stadium and you say that doesn’t have an impact. You’re putting this in middle of an area that is completely 125 at this point basically residential. So you’re going to put an industrial park for lack of a better word, because this light 126 manufacturing, any manufacturing as you actually look carefully in there, warehousing and logistic center. That 127 translates into industrial park, this is a pretty hefty size industrial park. It would actually, just to give you a couple 128 comparison numbers, the PNC Center is 700,000 square feet including all the levels, so that’s 700,000 this is 2.5 129 million that you want to put in there. Carter Findlay Stadium is 107,000 square feet. How can this not going to have 130 an impact on this whole area, doing this. 131 132 David Blankfard: I think your comments, most of the stuff you are wanting to talk about is going to be held up in the 133 later item. Right now we’re talking about something else. Thank you. 134 135 Franklin Garland: I know you’re trying to approve something that is going to be the infrastructure for something else. 136 137 Craig Benedict: Good evening, my name is Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning Director. Just a little bit about 138 how we can answer some questions from the public in how we will handle it moving forward. If staff can address with 139 a quick answer, if it’s a or b we will provide that during this meeting, if it is a more lengthy question, we will make 140 note of the public comment and we can provide in writing the justification of the goals of the County and how the 141 process has come forward. 142 143 Franklin Garland: (background discussion of a personal nature) 144 145 Perdita Holtz: I have gone ahead and muted Franklin Garland 146 147 Randy Marshall: I was just going to say that since we have a number of people who want to speak tonight, it seems 148 to me we want to try to institute some limit to the amount of time that people have to speak. Otherwise, we’re going 149 to be here terribly late. The other thing is in the past, it’s never been quite productive to have Planning Board 150 members respond to presenters individually. I agree with what Craig had to say in that we need to take the 151 information that people are offering to us and we can get back to them or staff can get back to them at an appropriate 152 time. 153 154 David Blankfard: Thank you Randy. 155 156 Perdita Holtz: We have asked for folks to limit comments to no more than 5 minutes. 157 158 Ronald Sieber: This is Ronald Sieber speaking; I live in the New Hope Springs neighborhood, which is along David 159 Road. I have two short comments to make and a question. My first comment is that the signs that have been 160 provided by the Planning Department to announce these meetings are too small, the print on them is too small, and 161 they are placed in dangerous venues that if a person such as myself wants to stop and try to interrupt what is on 162 them, we’ll get run over by cars. This actually happened to me on Davis Road when I stopped to photograph one of 163 the signs because it was really too small to read. As I was doing that, a truck came up behind me and almost hit my 164 car which was parked by the side of the road. I would ask the Planning Department to please come up with a sign 165 that’s got larger print in it, is more intelligent in its presentation and doesn’t present a danger to us folks who want to 166 read what’s going on. My second comment is that the July 21st meeting invited only those people within a 1000 167 9