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Approved 9/2/2020
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<br />my 40-year career at UNC and Duke, I’ve reviewed 100s of presentations and proposals, many worth 100s of 950
<br />millions of dollars per year and I can tell you this proposal contains a lot of smoke and mirrors. There’s a lot of 951
<br />meaningless rhetoric in the narrative, if you remove the rhetoric and look at the details, that are available you’ll see 952
<br />the County will spend more money than will be recouped in taxes and you’ll also find that the jobs that we all seek 953
<br />don’t actually exist and likely never will. No matter your perspective or goal, whether you’re a community member or 954
<br />a county official, if you look at it closely, it’s easy to see no one’s goals are met. Nobody win with this proposal, no 955
<br />matter how you slice it, dice it, look closely, this proposal is nothing more that lipstick on a pig. If you take the lipstick 956
<br />off and look at it, it’s still a pig. Thank you. 957
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<br />Franklin Garland: The reason (bad connection/unintelligible) it doesn’t fit, it’s not (bad connection/unintelligible). I’ve 959
<br />been here since 1973 from Pittsburg and previously (bad connection/unintelligible), settled here bought some land, 960
<br />bought a car. In 1981, I understand now was the first go round of establishing the EDD, I never knew about it. In fact 961
<br />(bad connection/unintelligible) I didn’t know about it until maybe 2 weeks ago, I can’t be sure I was ever notified. If 962
<br />that’s a valid point about knowing, everything that has happened, (bad connection/unintelligible) I’ve never received 963
<br />any notice. At the time, I’d probably said sure let’s put a waste, let’s put a dump out there that was 40 years ago. 964
<br />Things have changed and I know I am repeating myself a little bit but me just thank the residents of the area that has 965
<br />spoken so far and given you guys on the Board, we don’t want this. Most of those numbers came off your literature 966
<br />or the state’s literature not ours, okay. Observation or different things, we know how many cars are on Davis, I live 967
<br />on Ode Turner. I know how many cars are on Ode Turner. I really think that the guys that have presented for 968
<br />residents out here, the numbers and have said so (bad connection/unintelligible). Also, I want to thank the people 969
<br />from (bad connection/unintelligible) that gave us the projected numbers and models and let me put it even more 970
<br />simple, simulations that’s what they are simulations, they not real. We know what’s real over here, we sent out a 971
<br />petition it’s called save Hillsborough.com out there. Everybody’s welcome to go on there, we have people from 972
<br />Hillsborough signing we have close to 4000 or so by now these are our neighbors. This is actually getting effective 973
<br />by putting this (bad connection/unintelligible) not Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill is going collect money from that. We could 974
<br />have some other alternatives, let me suggest something, we could put a visitor’s center out there. Not a rest area, 975
<br />not a place to go to the restroom and gas up but a visitor’s center that has that presents for example, the artisans and 976
<br />farmers that have goat cheese that sell here. Jewelers, we have marvelous that could sell the wares at a visitor’s 977
<br />center of an on/off ramp (bad connection/ unintelligible) and they could sell local wines in there, have a wine tasting 978
<br />and that would bring revenue not only for the people that live here in this community (bad connection/unintelligible) 979
<br />you could have people providing … 980
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<br />Ellen Mayer: I live off David Road and I don’t have anything original after what everybody’s talking about. I’d like to 982
<br />thank the Mitchells for their talking about air quality air pollution and also noise pollution, which is very important. I’m 983
<br />one of the elderly, in my 70s, I’m also a bit upset that I believe his name was Frank, not knowing the difference 984
<br />between Raleigh and Hillsborough where they built things in Raleigh, I didn’t buy a house in Raleigh, I don’t want to 985
<br />live there. I want to live in rural community, I worry about my grandkids visiting and living here and breathing in this 986
<br />air from all these trucks that are polluting and also the safely. I’ll never get out as those trucks on Davis to Old 86, 987
<br />they’re 72 feet. There’s not going to be a light where they’re coming out and turning. They’re going to come out and 988
<br />I’m going to try to get in between them and sometimes winter comes to North Carolina and the roads are icy. We’re 989
<br />just asking for a disaster. Any where near the preschool with cars turning with little kids and trucks coming out, good 990
<br />luck. I appreciate you staying up this late, listening to us; I really hope you’re listening. This does not belong in this 991
<br />area or I don’t know where in Orange County for something this big belongs but certainly not a that intersection and 992
<br />on Davis Road which is a country road, I don’t care what officially it’s called. It’s a winding country beautiful road. 993
<br />Okay, thank you and have a good night. 994
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<br />Joseph Shore: So my name is Joseph Shore and I live on Old 86 between Davis Road and interstate 40. The 3500 996
<br />linear feet that the gentleman quoted earlier, the developer said it wouldn’t affect anyone but this is literally in front of 997
<br />my house so I’ll be directly impacted by this. I believe something like 16 or 17 homes on this little stretch of road that 998
<br />will be directly impacted by that so 16 families, once again he acted like it won’t affect anyone but obviously that just 999
<br />wildly incorrect. My biggest concern is with our home value. Someone mentioned this earlier but I have a proposal. 1000
<br />Like many people in the middle class, my home is my {inaudible} and I greatly fear that this development will make 1001
<br />my home significantly worth less than it is today. You would want to buy a home where there’s 18-wheelers on both 1002
<br />sides of my house. They’ll be behind my house and in front of my house, the noise traffic, the light pollution; it can 1003
<br />literally make my home worthless. So, my proposal is this, I think, and this is directly to you Michael Birch, if you’re 1004
<br />still on. The developers should create a 1 million dollar fund, it should be held in escrow for at least the next 5 years 1005
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