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34 <br /> This plan goes against the Efland/Mebane Small Area Plan, the Orange County 2030 <br /> Comprehensive Land Use Plan and the Parks and Rec yearly reports. These are the <br /> documents that local home buyers had available to them when choosing where to invest their <br /> hard earned income while buying homes. All of the aforementioned plans make it clear that the <br /> area NORTH of West Ten was slated to be developed into an industrial zone and I assumed, <br /> perhaps naively, that Orange County and Mebane City would stick to these plans in fairness to <br /> local land owners. <br /> The BAP will make it very easy for developers to extend industrial zoning into rural residential <br /> areas. Creating a rural industrial zone that none of the neighbors signed up for. What baffles <br /> me is why both Orange County and Mebane are looking to extend this industrial area before the <br /> land that was previously slated for this type of development has been used to its capacity. I <br /> could image in 20 years if or when all that land is actually developed that city and county alike <br /> might want to venture outside this area, but why now when there is so much open land <br /> available in previously industrial slated growth areas? <br /> I ask that instead of the BAP as it is currently stands that Orange County and Mebane City <br /> come together and create a binding land use plan that encompasses the original industrial <br /> growth area, south of highway 70 and north of West Ten Rd, as seen in the 2030 <br /> comprehensive land use plan. This would provide Orange County residents with assurance that <br /> both Orange County and Mebane City must be in agreement before any more properties are <br /> annexed to Mebane City and rezoned for industrial use. I would also ask that all the building <br /> "recommendations" currently listed in the BAP be made requirements of any developer looking <br /> to build. A binding joint land use plan would mean that those of us in the area can count on our <br /> elected officials to have a vote instead of the City of Mebane simply annexing our neighboring <br /> lots to be rezoned to industrial sites. <br /> This is already happening in the area; as an example I give you 6016 West Ten Road. It was <br /> recently annexed into Mebane and then rezoned to M-2. Many neighbors argued against this, a <br /> city council member used you, Orange County, as an excuse for why this rezoning happened, <br /> all the while this rezoning was never brought to orange county, meaning area citizens had no <br /> elected representation in the matter. This is why I am asking for a BINDING LAND USE PLAN <br /> as an official policy document adopted by both Orange County and Mebane City, encompassing <br /> the original industrial development area indicated on both the Orange county and Mebane city <br /> land use plans. I ask for this so that your constituents are not repeatedly left in a grey area of <br /> non-representation by elected officials. Thank you for your time. <br /> Aimee Tattersall said she has lived on the west side of Squires Road for 35 years. She <br /> said her neighbors on the east side are within 300 feet of Area B. She said her neighbors <br /> received a letter dated October 28, 2020 that felt threatening, about property being in the study <br /> area. She read the opening paragraph of the letter, and then read the following statement to the <br /> Board: <br /> Are you Commissioners are aware of that letter? The Mebane planning board discussed the <br /> plan on November 9 and the city had a public meeting on November 10. The planning board <br /> approved the plan without, to my knowledge, any planning board member actually looking at <br /> the land from Squires Road or any of the other roads off West 10. (and neither have any of you <br /> since Medline started construction). Did anyone from Piedmont Triad Regional Council <br /> actually walk any of the roads, rather than relying on GIS maps? <br />