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Approved 12.7.22 386 Adam Beeman: If you guys want to go forward and give them approval,you are allowed to give them conditions and 387 negotiate some conditions and give and take that everybody has to agree to. There is that opportunity if anybody else is 388 interested, you already know my position and I am going to stick with my position there is nothing, nobody is going to 389 change my mind so I'll let the rest of you guys debate. 390 391 David Blankfard: Should we let the public speak? 392 393 Adam Beeman: Ok, I didn't know if you guys wanted to debate or discussion on our end before we let the public speak. 394 That way maybe the public can understand where most of everybody stands. 395 396 Steve Kaufmann: Do you actually live in that area? 397 398 Adam Beeman: I do, I'm less than 10 minutes from that spot. I drive by there all the time. When I first came in 2008 a 399 Mebane Shrubbery sign was there and they had moved and that was last thing that was on that property and there has 400 been nothing there since 2008 since I've lived here, nothing. 401 402 Delores Bailey: With you being there that long, and you knowing exactly what it could do,what did you expect as a 403 neighbor of this spot? What did you think might go there? 404 405 Adam Beeman: I would like to see the industrial stuff. I would prefer to see some sort of manufacturing or something go 406 on because there is a Dollar General. There's not on Orange County's side, if you rode down coming into Caswell and 407 past this property, I think I passed 2 houses within a half mile of the place and if you go down 49, it's another half mile 408 before you hit residences. It really gets sparse out there, it's tobacco fields, soybean fields there is not a lot of density so 409 when they say they had to reduce their parking because the numbers didn't work,they're competing with Dollar General 410 and the other gas station with is 4/10 of a mile up the street. I don't see that store,just like White Cross, you guys all 411 were against the Dollar General rezoning in that White Cross property. To me, I don't see it any differently. There's 412 people there serving the need. 413 414 Delores Bailey: So light industrial you imagined would go there. 415 416 Adam Beeman: Yeah, down on 86 you see Happy Wax and what used to be the old forms place,that type of thing that 417 doesn't require a whole lot of staff, there's a building there and it's just kind of out there doing their thing. That's 418 something that I would envision or same concept with Efland where the gentleman wanted to put in some smaller 419 storefront with some storage space so a contractor up in my neck of the woods could rent a space and have something. 420 That would be more beneficial to the people in my area than another Family Dollar or another discount dollar store, 1 421 don't personally see the need for it and I don't see it being helpful to the County. I don't see it being in harmony with the 422 County. Like in White Cross it would take away any future availability for any other future land so that they could get that 423 spot. So you're taking away industrial space for a Family Dollar, I don't see it. You can never convince me that's 424 pushing the County forward and that's going to make us, it's the first thing people are going to see when they come in 425 out of State. People come down all the time from Virginia driving down 86 coming into North Carolina and they are going 426 to roll right Family Dollar and say welcome to Orange County. 427 428 David Blankfard: Don't you think competition would be good. 429 430 Adam Beeman: Again, there's not that many people out there. I did some work for the Dollar General, someone 431 crashed their car into the service and they were without power for 2 days, I had to replace the panel,there was maybe 432 150 a day that go past that store. I just don't see 2 stores, its wasting resources, my opinion. Everybody else can have 433 a completely different view but that affects me, it's right up in my corner of the woods and I just don't see it. 434 435 Doug Burr: I'm Doug Burr with Elkin and Associates and I certainly appreciate all the comments. This is a little bit 436 different, and I hear you, it is a Family Dollar but it's a Family Dollar and Dollar Tree which is something that cannot be 437 offered, Dollar Tree in and of itself, I'm sure most are familiar with it. It caters itself a little bit differently than Dollar 438 General and Family Dollar so it allows more gifting, gift wrap,seasonal, school supplies and that kind of thing. An 439 offering at that single price point, half the store is Dollar Tree and half is Family Dollar. This is an opportunity for them to 440 come into markets like this that are very rural. It's a large company,they have a significant amount of stores that do a