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DRAFT 12 <br /> 165 Commissioners, what you're doing right now. That they would have no say, they can't tell you no, and hold on hold <br /> 166 on, I'm not done.... <br /> 167 <br /> 168 Michael Harvey: No sir, this Zoning Atlas amendment has to go to the County Commissioners for eventual approval, <br /> 169 the development of these properties, as individual parcels would be handled by the staff consistent with the <br /> 170 requirements of the Unified Development Ordinance as all permitted land uses would be handled. <br /> 171 <br /> 172 Franklin Garland: Ok, so if you spending all this time and energy and all this money on it and all the people out here, <br /> 173 1 can get 20 or 30 thousand people to go against what you're trying to propose,you have wasted all this money and it <br /> 174 will go to the Board of Commissioners and they gonna say, well we agree with the community, maybe they will this <br /> 175 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 <br /> 176 Commissioners live, I don't know where the rest of the Board lives but apparently they're not being affected by this <br /> 177 because they could care less, including you, ok. I would really appreciate it if actually some of the Commissioners <br /> 178 and some of these planning people came and looked at these properties. I will gladly let you on my property and <br /> 179 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 <br /> 180 that's good enough and that's not good enough for the people that live here by the way. You know what's good <br /> 181 enough is for you to leave us alone. <br /> 182 <br /> 183 David Blankfard: Thank you Mr. Garland <br /> 184 <br /> 185 Steve Kaufmann: Can I have video too. My name is Steve Kaufmann and I did receive a letter from the County for <br /> 186 this. First, let me introduce myself as a resident of Hillsborough for 25 years. I moved here to be a school teacher <br /> 187 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 <br /> 188 dream come true moving here and I opened up a martial arts school here. I've been teaching martial arts in <br /> 189 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 <br /> 190 near 40 and I wanted to build a martial arts school so I purchased that land that was actually zoned for schools at <br /> 191 that time. Unfortunately, there as a moratorium for six months going on while I was purchasing it and once the <br /> 192 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 <br /> 193 opportunity to have a school on it when Settler's Point was approved because basically the codes changed a lot <br /> 194 during that time which they're present still. Because of what Michael Harvey explained, it's impossible for anyone to <br /> 195 do anything with that property given that everyone has to work together because there's traffic ordinances and lots of <br /> 196 details that take lots of money to do anything within any of that property. So, I don't want people to inflate those <br /> 197 properties on the east side with the this humongous thing that's going on with the west side. They are very very <br /> 198 different things. I purchased this property exactly 20 years ago; I'm like a newcomer there. I purchased it from a <br /> 199 family who had lived there for generations and all my neighbors have lived there for generations, I mean, I'm <br /> 200 definitely the new guy there after 20 years. All those people have had property for many years and I don't know what <br /> 201 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 <br /> 202 at the moment. We're very very close to 1-40 there's already Dodson's Construction is already a business right near <br /> 203 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 <br /> 204 to go on there, those are like four to six acres lots. Once again, don't inflate it with the these humongous warehouses <br /> 205 that are happening on the west side an especially that 12 acre lot on Davis Road which I'm definitely against. Those <br /> 206 are very very different things that are happening on the same night tonight so I just wanted to air my concerns. It <br /> 207 would definitely be a setback to me to have that as residential only, I purchased it to build the school on and I've <br /> 208 been struggling for 20 years to try to get a school on it and I've been in conversations with Orange County for 20 <br /> 209 years about how to build a school on it and believe me it's not easy to build anything in Orange County without going <br /> 210 through lots of red tape. If you are a very large building company and you have lawyers and you have architects and <br /> 211 you have designers and you have site planners and you have lots of money to work with you can get things done but <br /> 212 as a small mom and pop operation that I have it's very very very difficult to get anything done so I just want to assure <br /> 213 you that there aren't going to be all these things popping up on the east side of that street. There's no water and <br /> 214 sewer there, it's almost like it's impossible to build there the land doesn't perk well and we don't have water and <br /> 215 sewer. It's probably going to be sitting there for a good many years still. Ok, that's all I have to say, thank you very <br /> 216 much. <br /> 217 <br /> 218 Craig Benedict: Michael Harvey, can you confirm that these rezonings would facilitate him being able to do <br /> 219 something on his property besides the Settler Point district two. <br /> 220 <br />