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Approved 8/9/2021 1 Harmony - Applicant's Plan is not in Harmony with properties in Holly Creek Farms or surrounding area. A lack of 2 Harmony will naturally decrease Property Value in Holly Creek farms as well as nearby residences. Rural Buffer Zoning 3 as stated in the UDO is intended to maintain or enhance existing nearby properties. Nothing in the Applicant's proposed 4 plan will enhance or even maintain existing Harmony. The proposed Cricket Field Park is not comparable to any other 5 businesses located in this Rural Buffer Zone. No other business in RB Zoning along Old Greensboro Highway is 6 comparable to the Applicant's proposed Cricket Facility. No other business in the Rural Buffer Zone has a finished 7 (Asphalt) Parking Lot and Overflow On Grass Parking designed to contain as many 71+ cars. No other business in the 8 Rural Buffer Zone comes near to generating the number of cars and traffic as the proposed Cricket Fields. No other 9 business in the RB Zone comes near to generating as many people that will be participating in the games or others 10 present at the Cricket Park. 11 12 The proposed application informs there are two cricket fields and games will be played during the spring, summer and 13 fall seasons. On any given weekend, one game will bring 22 players, 8 substitutes and up to 4 umpires. Present at the 14 cricket games for only one game may be up to 34 people plus innumerable spectators. If the Triangle Cricket League 15 has games on both Saturday and Sunday, there will be up to 68 team members plus spectators. If they use the second 16 field on any given weekend that will bring 136 people to our little neighborhood. In this case, it does not take a 17 seasoned Realtor such as myself to conclude that Property Value will be negatively affected. While Mr. Patil has an 18 expert Real Estate Witness that disagrees with my opinion, 1 believe the Board will clearly see how Mr. Patil's SUP, if 19 approved, will lower Property Value in Holly Creek Farms and the surrounding neighborhood. 20 21 The Triangle Cricket league presented an Application to change zoning and create a cricket facility in Chatham County. 22 The Chatham County Board in consideration of Noise, Safety and Harmony turned the Application down in February 23 2019. At any rate, the Burden of Proof should rest on the Applicant as stated in an article published by the University of 24 North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government. 25 26 1 ask the Board how can the appearance of beautiful farmland be improved by a cricket park?How does this benefit our 27 residents in Rural Buffer Zoning when team members for the most part live in Raleigh and Morrisville? 28 29 Mr. Patil in a letter written to the Planning Department claims he built his home on Holly Creek Lane to live here. 30 31 He wrote: I wish to emphasize that I purchased the property for the sole purpose of building a home for my family and 1 32 dream of living a quiet life and pursuing our simple joys and passions, including gardening of ornamental plants and 33 vegetables. The home he built was given a Certificate of Occupancy in early 2018. That very same year he rented out 34 the home. It has been rented ever since except for a time in April of 2019 in which he listed the home For Sale with his 35 Expert Witness Realtor, Virginia Ferguson. He took the home off the market and continues to rent out the home. 36 37 While any real estate opinion agreeably is speculative mine is based on the fact that I have lived on Holly Creek Lane 38 for 25 years, the fact that I have experience listing and selling homes in the Holly Creek Subdivision and the fact that 1 39 understand the harmonious country nature of Holly Creek Farms. I ask the Board not to approve Mr. Patti's Application 40 since it will lower property value 12- 15% or more and detrimentally affect Harmony, and General Welfare of Holly 41 Creek Farms. 42 43 Ms. Weidner said the parks and houses mentioned by Mr. Patil's expert are all in urban areas, not rural areas. The 44 analysis uses comparison athletic fields in Efland, Hillsborough, Fuquay-Varina, Chapel Hill, and others. None of these 45 parks are comparable as they are not located in rural areas or developed on lots smaller than 2 acres in area. For a 46 comparison to be viable, we need to look and parks developed in rural areas with rural densities. Ms. Weider said an 47 experienced realtor would never think to use these as comparable developments as they are not the same with respect 48 to the scope, size, and impacts associated with development in a rural area. Ms. Weider indicated the referenced parks 49 have different amenities and facilities that are inconsistent with Mr. Patil's proposal. Some of the referenced parks have 19