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35 <br /> From: Andrea Riley <br /> To: ULSM <br /> Cc: Buckhorn Study;ocbocc(cbamail.com;cmatthews;John Dempsey; Fiona Johann; Beth B.;Jared Cates; Patricia <br /> QQonnor;Matt Cartmill; Kaye Brown; Lib Hutchbv <br /> Subject: [EXTERNAL MAIL!]Re: Request for more public input opportunities for BAP <br /> Date: Sunday,May 23,20214:38:05 PM <br /> Fantastic letter, Tim, as usual. Thank you for writing and for sharing! <br /> Andrea <br /> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 11:34 PM tbspru<tbsprun.aol.com>wrote: <br /> Dear Orange County Commissioners, <br /> The BAP proposed by the Orange County Planning Department and Mebane City Council is <br /> currently in need of much more consideration of comments and input from the public. <br /> Comments at the first meeting held by the Planning Department indicated numerous issues <br /> relating to environment, social justice, and suitability for any planned projects for a rural <br /> setting. If Mebane and Orange County continue along their course of building to fill the tax <br /> coffers in the absence of any thinking beyond what is minimally do-able from a basic <br /> engineering viewpoint, without significant consideration of concerns and ideas from citizens <br /> and others, the County will wind up with an industrial corridor composed of a concrete <br /> jungle full of nameless buildings, few trees, and avoidable environmental costs. <br /> Development of the Buckhorn area has been"planned"by the Mebane and Orange County <br /> Planning Departments for more than 15 years,but with basically no public input. This is an <br /> important change in land use that will impact Orange County residents far into the future. <br /> The fact that a school is located in the middle of planned industrial warehouses and <br /> commercial properties and that 70 percent impervious area is planned for a major water- <br /> supply watershed is clear evidence that no care about real planning has taken place. Please <br /> require more public input opportunities for meetings and require production of a real plan <br /> and vision beyond the badly inadequate current form of the BAP. <br /> Tim Spruill, Efland <br /> Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS <br />