Agenda - 06-06-2023; 5-b - Zoning Atlas Amendment MA22-0004 – Parcel Located off Lawrence Road and US 70A, in Eno Township

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176 DRAFT 440 Tennis is one of those as well as pickleball.This is a great opportunity for us to have some good change and change 441 does come. This is a great opportunity to advance everyone's lives by having athletic endeavors to get together as a 442 community and offer ways that are good health incentives. I hope that you will consider this and accept this as a great 443 way to improve Orange County. 444 445 MOTION BY Lamar Proctor to allow anyone who signed up to speak on April 5t", and their name was not called, be 446 allowed to speak if their name is on the list. Seconded by Statler Gilfillen 447 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 448 449 Matt McDermott:The home in which my wife and I have lived in for 24 years, borders Lawrence Road and is within 450 1,000 feet of the proposed development. My comments tonight go to the subject of equity, specifically with respect to the 451 well water demands necessary to support all facets of the proposed development. In other words, all recreational spaces 452 but not the charter schools which as the applicant has proposed, will be serviced by public water and sewer. I have not 453 seen, nor am I aware of any daily well water consumption projections.Why is this important you may ask? Because the 454 daily lives of those of us neighboring the proposed development site, depends dearly on our wells remaining viable in 455 terms of providing ongoing potable water. Further, no hydrogeological study has been conducted in an attempt to 456 determine if there are any present or foreseeable concerns with respect to supporting the well water demands, not only 457 at the proposed development site but our neighboring ones as well. My strong suspicion is that none of this has been 458 investigated as any state statutes, ordinances or otherwise do not demand this of any conditional rezoning applicant. 459 Here is where the equity issue makes itself abundantly apparent,we have no safety net.We currently have no access to 460 publicly provided water unlike the applicant who ultimately will, and God forbid if any of our wells run dry as a result of a 461 significant increase in well water demands, should this proposed development be accrued. Some of the older wells, 462 those which are shallow in nature, in the neighboring area are already encountering periodic flow and water quality 463 problems/perc challenges.Arguably,we are being asked to simply accept the increased probability of a well failure as a 464 part of this proposed development. For many in this area,who simply do not have the means,the cost of addressing a 465 failed well would be financially catastrophic.That ask of us, patently, is unfair. It speaks to my initial equity comment.We 466 have an online petition against the rezoning, can I provide that to you? 467 468 Beth Bronson:We have an online public email address that you can send it to. 469 470 Drake Edwards: I have lived here for 10 years, I am a physician at Duke. I have a 2-year-old son, my wife and I drive on 471 70A and stop at that 4 way stop at Lawrence Road. I wanted to talk about a story from 8 years ago. I was visiting my 472 brother and sister-in-law up in DC, my sister-in-law is an Army doctor and was stationed at Walter Reed at the time. My 473 brother-in-law, like most brother in laws when you go visit them, had a project for me,which was to go into an empty 474 building and paint every wall in the place and move way too much furniture for an entire weekend. Full disclosure, my 475 brother-in-law is Joey Webb, he is going to be the director of West....Charter School. I saw him take that empty building 476 and turn it into a place that gave opportunities to kids that just didn't have opportunities to learn and enrich their lives and 477 1 saw him to get kids to take the AP exams that they would have never had access to. He sent this young girl to a 478 Harvard computer science course and put her on a pathway to a life that she would have never had without that school. 1 479 saw him work with his community to have a symbiotic relationship where both the neighborhood and school could thrive 480 together. I think that this community having Joey Webb in it and starting this school is like winning the lottery. I spend a 481 lot of my time dedicating my life to serving this community, my sister-in-law has put her life in danger to serve our military 482 and worked so hard and I know that Joey Webb shares that same passion for his community. Thank you for coming here 483 a second night in a row and you have missed two bedtimes to be here,and I know a lot of parents have been in the 484 same situation and I don't get a lot of bedtimes with my son, so thank you for taking the time. 485 486 Rob Minton: I live off of Lawrence Road in the Wyngate community and one thing I would like to add is that we had over 487 700 petitions against this project. In addition to that, the neighborhood I live in and have enjoyed all these years, is quiet. 488 This will be completely ripped apart with this project.They are talking about numbers anywhere from 800-1200 students. 489 The traffic congestion will be inconceivable, I don't think you can really plan these things. The comments made about the 490 stress on wells is well taken. Unfortunately, as mentioned previously, I don't hear any hydrogeologic study that has been 491 done at all. I also hear a lot of athletic enthusiasts and I am one. I love tennis and baseball as well. I just think it doesn't 492 need to be in this area. Better sites would encompass at least 4 lanes, that would be more reasonable. This,with 2 493 lanes,just doesn't make sense. With that, I appreciate the time that you have given me to say my piece but it is a big fat 494 no for me.