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<br /> 551 Beth Myers: My name is Beth Myers and I am a resident of Cedar Grove, I like on 86 at the intersection of 86 and Efland
<br /> 552 Cedar Grove Road so very close here. I am about 2 miles south of the proposed project. I would like to say that I am
<br /> 553 strongly opposed to it. As we've mentioned there is already a Dollar General in the area within walking distance of this
<br /> 554 proposed project and I don't see this bringing any benefit to the County or to our rural neighborhood and we do want to
<br /> 555 keep it rural. I am a farmer, I sell to Carrboro Farmer's Market and I really appreciate the rural area of Northern Orange
<br /> 556 County and I really want to keep it that way. This project, other than I really don't understand the business aspect
<br /> 557 behind it, they are competing with the Dollar General,they are absolutely not going to be bringing in new customers they
<br /> 558 would simply be halving the existing customers between the 2 stores and there is already a gas station across from the
<br /> 559 existing Dollar General. If you travel further south on 86 there is the Farm and Garden which recently reopened and they
<br /> 560 have gas,they have a lot of local products that we talked about,food,things like that. There are some amenities in the
<br /> 561 area and again I want to say I am strongly opposed to it. Thank you.
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<br /> 563 Leah Cook: Hi,thank you for your time, my name is Leah Cook and I live in Cedar Grove as well. I live on Allison Road,
<br /> 564 I'm 1,000 feet within this proposed project. I am a farmer as well. I am here to say I am strongly opposed to this project
<br /> 565 for a lot of the reasons Beth just specified. It makes no sense. We've got a Dollar General just over the Caswell line.
<br /> 566 So to have a Family Dollar and a Dollar Tree, I didn't know it was Family Dollar and Dollar Tree and then the gas station,
<br /> 567 it makes no sense. It is a waste of space. I am also concerned about the water table in our area, I farm. I sell at
<br /> 568 Carrboro Farmer's Market and Weaver Street. I am concerned about light pollution as well and I'd like to ask these
<br /> 569 gentlemen if they truly understand where their food comes from. It doesn't come from Family Dollar. It doesn't come
<br /> 570 from Dollar Tree its farmers so to answer your question earlier yea you can get canned stuff there, eggs, milk. You can
<br /> 571 get that at Dollar General,you can get that at the Triangle Grocery Store, you can get a pizza up there if you are in a
<br /> 572 pinch. You can get gas but you can't get real food so thank you for your time.
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<br /> 574 John Thomas: Good evening and thank you for your time. Leah and I actually, she's my partner we farm together and
<br /> 575 we have about 30 acres on Allison Road and we are very close to this. I am opposed to this. I don't see the value add
<br /> 576 for the same reasons that have been stated as far as we already have multiple stores in the area that will offer what this
<br /> 577 offers except for possibly Christmas wrapping. You are 12 miles to Yanceyville from this area, 12 miles to Hillsborough
<br /> 578 from this area you are 5 miles or so from the store at the corner of Walnut Church Grove Road and 86 which is a pretty
<br /> 579 nice store it's just been rebuilt that is much nicer than this. We offer jobs,we pay a living wage to our employees,we
<br /> 580 pay$15 an hour to our employees,they are part time employees, I guarantee you nobody in this store will make$15 an
<br /> 581 hour probably like the manager. The volume of traffic in the area is already increased and it is already a dangerous
<br /> 582 intersection with the Dollar General and the way 49 and existing gas station is,to add 1 more thing in that mix and this is
<br /> 583 going to be almost right on the curve where this gentleman knows there is a Welcome to Cedar Grove sign, it's just going
<br /> 584 to make it worse. Again, I am opposed to this and don't see the value add and as Leah noted, so what's going to
<br /> 585 happen is you're going to run farmers out. We also work and what we've done in the past is we work as an incubator
<br /> 586 farm some of our employees have gone on to farm themselves in the area to produce stuff. We sell, like Leah said,we
<br /> 587 sell at Carrboro Market,we sell at Weaver Street,we sell at restaurants in the Chapel Hill Carrboro area so I'm against it.
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<br /> 589 Mimi Locathetis: My name is Mimi, I live in Cedar Grove as well, neighbors with these guys. I am vehemently opposed
<br /> 590 to this project. For the reasons stated previously there is no fresh food there,this creates food desert conditions for low
<br /> 591 income rural communities, it's about 50% higher in these sort of situations. Just the health of our community. I can
<br /> 592 barely get out of my driveway now with the traffic,this is just going to be one more thing making everything dangerous.
<br /> 593 I'm glad it was brought up about notifying people in this area for these sorts of projects, 1,000 ft. is not nearly enough for
<br /> 594 a rural community cause there are plenty of other people who are going to be affected by this that live in this area and
<br /> 595 they don't even know about it yet. So, hopefully,we'll start talking a little bit more and let them know and if this does go
<br /> 596 forward and to the Board of Commissioner meeting hopefully there will be a little bit more of an outrage but is not the
<br /> 597 right project. I can think of a million other things that could go in this space but I'm also worried if this does get rezoned
<br /> 598 once this fails,what then happens. It's just like opening a Pandora's Box of stuff we don't need. This is one other thing
<br /> 599 we don't want in our community.
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<br /> 601 Celia Rice: I recently bought property in this area, I'm on Route 49 right across from this store is going to be located. 1
<br /> 602 bought this property as a rural property. I intend to live there, I'm in the process of building a home, I have a neighbor
<br /> 603 right behind me, he's not within the 1,000 ft. of notification so he was not notified and I would like to state that the
<br /> 604 distance should be definitely increased for a rural community. I'm also concerned mostly about the traffic. I have
<br /> 605 property as well in Caswell County and have been driving on 86 for the last 15 years,the traffic has exponentially
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