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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a few people and then the next thing I knew, I drove by and there were like 20 signs out. And then the meeting 335 happened a week later. So, speaking to David and Hunter and Melissa, welcome, the OCPB charge is that 336 ‘harmonious development, future needs, homes, homestead, wildlife habitat’ we have deer, we have endangered 337 bluebirds, we have many wildlife that are living in this neighborhood community. Whether or not we live 1.75 miles, 338 2.3 miles, we live on Davis, we live on Ode Turner, we live in this neighborhood. This is where we live now. We 339 didn’t live here 20 years ago this is where we live this is where our families are this is our harmonious development 340 we are your constituents we would appreciate you listening to what we have to say. I’m talking to you Hunter, I’m 341 talking to you Melissa, I’m talking to you David. Apparently, you weren’t here when we had this meeting two years 342 ago and they wanted to rezone yet again these same areas and that fell through and what Mr. Altieri described 343 earlier, the whole kit and caboodle was this is an example of the Town giving an inch and a developer taking a mile 344 because there’s a little bit of an extra parcel and that’s what they want to do. And we implore you to please put a 345 stop to it. Let us have our green area. Let us live our lives where we live it best. I do not need nor do we want to 346 have this traffic, this green space taken away, Thank you. 347 348 Jon Lorusso: Good evening, I don’t have a lot to say. I wanted to voice my opposition to this. I also live off Davis 349 Road across from the New Hope Springs Subdivision. I am against this I concur with previous speakers about the 350 signs. I almost got into an accident myself trying to read information off a sign. It does feel like this is being done 351 without the, no one voices their opposition. I came in from a meeting late tonight and I missed the meeting in July. I 352 wasn’t at the meeting a few years ago that the previous speaker mentioned. I don’t know how long in the process we 353 are but once it’s done you cannot undo it. You cut down a tree the tree is gone it’s not coming back you can’t just put 354 a new one there. If this is done, it’s permanent. It will change forever the place that we live. The phrase Not in My 355 Back Yard comes to mind. I don’t know how many of the County Commissioners live in this area if this was being 356 done on the other side of the County, I probably wouldn’t care but it is being done in my backyard like the previous 357 speakers have said, I didn’t move here so that I could live next to a giant manufacturing district. This is just not why I 358 moved here not why I live here. I would also like to reiterate what speakers said about the potential use. What’s 359 going to go on here? No idea. I think she mentioned a rubber tire factory, who knows? It’s really none of our 360 business right? It’s private property, they can do whatever they want. I am very upset by this and I really wish you 361 wouldn’t do this to us. That’s all I have to say. 362 363 Stephen Williams: I just wanted to voice my concerns and many people have already spoken on the topics I was 364 concerned about. I am wondering why the residents in this area haven’t be given any results as to if traffic studies 365 have been done on the impacts that this facility might have on traffic as well as green space. I spent one day this 366 week putting up my new mailbox because I am in the process of building on a property 3 acres that will border this 367 potential development and life others have said, as I was putting up my mailbox, bikers went by, people walking, 368 cars, it’s just unimaginable what the impacts will be on Davis Road to allow an entrance or exit to a facility of this 369 size. I am also confused as to why the 12 acres is so important. We keep saying that it’s, we’ll talk about something 370 separate but really they go hand and hands. I really thought it would have been best in the interest of everyone if this 371 had been addressed and then questions had been asked. There’s a major and no one has mentioned this, there are 372 major power lines that separate that 12 acres from the rest of this development. I don’t know if that has been brought 373 to anyone’s attention, I’m sure the planning committee is aware of that it just seems illogical that those 12 acres are 374 essential to them putting this development in. I concur the signs are super small, many people at the July meeting 375 voiced their concerns there weren’t many of us but there were a few there. I do feel like it’s absurd that we’re talking 376 about changing the zoning of a residential area with residents and people’s homes and lives that in and of itself 377 should say. What are we doing here? Why are we doing this? Are we doing this for money? I chose to buy land in 378 Orange County and pay the higher taxes because I wanted some space, I wanted 3 acres, I wanted some woods. I 379 didn’t know at the time that all this was going to be occurring or I would have changed my mind. I could have bought 380 in a different county and paid a lot lower taxes so I hope the planners here will hear our voices and as it’s been said, 381 we do the voting and I guess we’ll need to remember that when we vote again. Again, time is of the essence but I’m 382 hearing a lot of questions from people on the planning committee so we might want to direct the time to constituents 383 and residents if we want to save time and save those planning committee questions for when you guys meet at a 384 later time. Thank you. 385 386 Leslie Roberts: Thank you for letting me speak, this is Leslie Roberts and I live on Old 86 about a half a mile from 387 the Davis/86 intersection. I am opposed to this and I have some concerns that have not been mentioned yet. One of 388 them being that traffic on Old 86 is picking up quite a bit since I’ve moved here I’ve noticed and I think would be 389 erroneous to assume that the traffic will stay between this warehouse and 40 since 40 is right there. 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