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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will probably increase along Old 86 to New Hope Church Road as people bypassing go another to the interstate. I 391 think that is something that should be considered also considering the narrower parts of Old 86 out here as well as 392 cyclists and just people just trying to get out of their driveways. I am also concerned because I know that this is a 393 long time coming people have not heard that this has been in motion for many many years but the world we live in 394 now is not the same world we were in when this was thought of and I think it would behoove us to really take a step 395 back and consider the footprint that we are looking at leaving with this industrial complex. Many businesses are 396 opting to work from home options that may be permanent. They are finding that automation can make smaller 397 spaces for warehouses and not as big warehouses are needed. So I think it’s frivolous at this point to consider such 398 a big industrial impact when we’re very clearly seeing that in two or three years from now the same resources may 399 not be necessary and so I think that’s really important to consider that what we’re doing here will have a lasting 400 effect. I have a question to be considered for later, are there plans to consider that is there a pivot that can be made 401 if we realize that this is not going to be fruitful. So that’s where I’m coming from. I appreciate you taking my 402 questions, thank you. 403 404 Matthew Kostura: Just a couple of comments. First there have been a lot of question about what might go in here. I 405 think it’s pretty clear what going to go in here, a very large warehousing distribution center, manufacturing is probably 406 not in the cards here. You are really talking about the big impacts is traffic and with all due respect to Randy about 407 asking where people live on Davis Road, 1.8 miles away, whatever. Last I heard cars move they are going to be 408 coming down this way and a point that I want to make is that for everybody out here on Davis Road, all the 409 comments about the biking and the walking and such are true and here’s the reason why, in 20 years’ time since I’ve 410 been living here based on North Carolina’s own annual average daily trip data, the traffic on David Road has not 411 increased one bit it’s been stuck around 800 trips a day. So this is not a road for us, it’s a driveway. We don’t view it 412 as a road it’s our driveway that we come home to. Now at the top of it, you’re going to be putting the traffic bog of 413 basically four years’ worth of trips on this road, four years 3000 trips. That just doesn’t make any sense. Secondly, I 414 want to go back to Melissa Poole’s question because I think it’s really important. It seems like this rezoning is 415 backwards. How I interrupt Tom Altieri’s commentary is basically this way, we can rezone it because in the future we 416 have it marked for rezoning. So we can rezone it now. That’s basically how I’m interrupting this, I think it’s true but 417 it’s really just as a way, an ad hoc way to say, we’re going to get this way in that is critical for this development. They 418 need a second egress from that site and that land is for that. Oh and by the way, they’re putting a 300,000 square 419 foot building there too. Right next to a bunch of homes, which they are free, to sell to anybody who wants to come in 420 and put up fence. It seems to me, I really want to address that issue of how this lays out because it seems to me like 421 this a very ad hoc exercise. I really like some explanations on how that works out because it seems to me what 422 you’re justifying a present change because the future overlay that’s going to occur. Really, that cuts back to Melissa 423 Poole’s comments. Thank you, I’m done. 424 425 Adam Beeman: I am just wondering if we can just get past this first amendment, a lot of the problems and questions 426 would be addressed and answered in Mr. Harvey’s presentation over the rezoning of the MPZ-CD. We’re going 427 through stuff that they will get answers to once Mr. Harvey give his presentation. I don’t know if there is a way we 428 can vote on this first amendment and move along but a lot of the stuff will be answered once we get to that next 429 presentation, I believe. 430 431 Gerald Scarlett: I will speak specifically to Item 8 let it be known that I am not in favor of any of this. I have been here 432 for 65 years; my family has been here for over 200 years. When you look at your map, West Scarlett Mountain Road 433 is my driveway. It’s a half a mile long and I personally maintain all of it, all the expense and all the work. What I 434 would ask of the Board is that you recommend to the County Commissioners that Item 8 not be approved. I’d like for 435 all this to go away but I’ve been fighting this stuff since Interstate 40 took part of my property so I know how some of 436 it will turn out but we do not need to approve Item 8. If you look at that map, the change that you are making, I know 437 it’s not yet a rezoning, seems to be just because the Town wanted to do it and we want to match that. I think we 438 need to make everything as hard as possible for anybody to do anything in that section other than the R1. Part of my 439 reasoning for that is if you look at my driveway, that is the beginning of the Rural Buffer. My property is in the Rural 440 Buffer. There are a lot of things I cannot do with my property that people on Davis Road can because I’m in the 441 Rural Buffer. Some of my tax money has been spend over the last couple of years to put up signs that say ‘Entering 442 the Rural Buffer’. Some people love it, I personally don’t, it rubs my nose in the fact that I can’t do something on the 443 piece of property my family has been paying taxes on for 150 – 200 years but none of that matters at this point but if 444 you look at that map and you look at my driveway, it does not make sense to me that you have a Rural Buffer that 445 limits the use of property so that it has to stay the very rural, more rural than the rest of the County but I would have 446 14