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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there you see families walking hand in hand with children on Davis Road especially because people are home now 224 and not able to go out and socialize. Folks cycle out there this is a great place to ride bikes and again that quality of 225 life that we’re used to maybe gone if this huge development comes to fruition so my pitch again is to remove any 226 service road, any development from encroaching down that Davis Road corridor and let’s leave Davis Road in as 227 much of the pristine condition as we can. My last question is once this large manufacturing and industrial 228 warehousing site is approved, will residents be notified about the potential new owners of these facilities and what 229 sort of manufacturing and industrial plans do we have for these parcels are we looking at a rubber tire plant, a swine 230 pig manufacturing site, pharmaceuticals what are we really approving here? It’s quite nebulas in my mind and a little 231 frightening so I’ll stop now and just take any questions if need be. Thank you. 232 233 David Blankfard: Thank you. 234 235 Randy Marshall: How far is your development from 86? 236 237 Clare Brennan: 1.75 miles, it’s right the Ode Turner fork, go left at the fork. 238 239 Randy Marshall: Ok, so you’d have to go 1.7 miles down Davis Drive from 86 to get to your development? 240 241 Clare Brennan: Correct. 242 243 Randy Marshall: Thank you. 244 245 Hunter Spitzer: My question was if we do not approve this Land Use Plan amendment, can this area still be rezoned 246 in the following amendment or would it be passed to the Board of County Commissioners? The one for the Research 247 Triangle Logistic Park if we don’t change our land use map? 248 249 Tom Altieri: Any rezoning needs to be consistent with the Land Use Plan. If it is not consistent with the Land Use 250 Plan then the Land Use Plan needs to change concurrently. So the answer to your question is no. 251 252 Craig Benedict: I can add on to that. North Carolina State Law allows rezoning to proceed and independent and if 253 the rezoning is approved in an area such as this then we would have to, as Tom said, go back and change the Land 254 Use Plan. 255 256 Hunter Spitzer: So it would be inconsistent but because our Land Use Plan didn’t agree with this, it wouldn’t 257 necessarily stop it? 258 259 Craig Benedict: That’s correct. 260 261 Jared Jurkiewicz: My name is Jared Jurkiewicz; I live down Davis Road as well just past the New Hope Subdivision. 262 I’m actually in the Windsong Subdivision, which is a tenth of a mile from them. I am also the president of the 263 homeowners association for the Windsong Subdivision representing approximately 15 households on this call and I 264 would just like us all to go on record saying that we oppose making these changes here all of us are extremely 265 concerned about the detrimental effects it will have to our community, to the traffic on Davis and to the overall 266 lifestyle of the area. It has been summarized by Franklin and several others beforehand that many of us moved out 267 here specifically because it was a rural area and we wanted to be outside of the city. We did not come here to 268 suddenly have a massive manufacturing facility and warehouse district pop up in our back yards. A lot of us are 269 incredibly unhappy about this and I don’t know if it is true or not but I know it has been discussed among people here 270 as we feel like this is being snuck in and hidden with the things such as the signs that are unreadable on the road 271 unless you stop and endanger your life to read them. That the stuff is being done very under the table and sort of an 272 underhanded fashion and it is breeding a lot of resentment with the residents of this area. I can that’s true for my 273 entire subdivision, it’s come up in our homeowners association meetings several time now and as Franklin said, it 274 really feels like, even though the statute said or the creed said that Hillsborough residents come first, it feels like we 275 are all coming last. That this corporation, which is from out of state, is getting more preferential treatment than the 276 2000 + citizens that live here and that’s pretty much my entire comment. Thank you. 277 278 11