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something happens to my community I want to make sure I know all the rest associated with the type of development 111
<br />and also any type of safeguards that are applied that we may not be aware of. Whenever I hear about tennis courts, 112
<br />baseball fields…. I love baseball, I used to grow up watching my third cousin play for the Yankees. I think we need more 113
<br />baseball fields and tennis courts. However, I do have concerns about the noise and I also have concerns about the 114
<br />lights. I just want to make sure that if they are going to have baseball fields and tennis courts that they are going to have 115
<br />proper safeguards, something to deflect the noise, whether it is trees or whatever. I just want to make sure that we are 116
<br />aware that there is a community that is very peaceful and we get along very well together. It is a very diverse community 117
<br />and we want to make sure that anyone that wants to join our community, fits in. Thank you so much. 118
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<br />Marian Adamson: My family was drawn to Hillsborough by the lovely people and the great programs. We’ve bounced 120
<br />around from various programs and now I have a son who does baseball at HYAA and my husband is an assistant coach. 121
<br />I have another son who does tennis with the Orange Tennis Club. He told me today that the good thing about tennis is 122
<br />that it is a great sport for people who are not tall. It is really happy for me that he has finally found a sport that he is really 123
<br />happy with but we’ve been working with one of their private coaches and it’s been a struggle to get tennis court time. I 124
<br />took my entire family Monday evening really late because it was the only time we could find available. I know that HYAA 125
<br />is losing some of their fields and we really love that baseball program. On top of that, I have 4 children at the Expedition 126
<br />School, a charter school in Hillsborough that will feed into Triangle West High School if it is able to have a location and 127
<br />we have loved our charter school. The commitment of the people there to our students, the great teaching staff, my kids 128
<br />have really flourished at this charter school. We need options for people of all locations and backgrounds to have places 129
<br />to go to school, places that work really well for their children as this charter school has for me. I just wanted to say that 130
<br />our family would be a huge proponent of this. It would mean that my children would be in the same area instead of 131
<br />having to go to all different locations and driving all over, we would be in one place and that is a beautiful thing to add to 132
<br />the community. I am so glad they are putting in these beautiful neighborhoods in Hillsborough and Orange County but 133
<br />we really do need the schools and the support system and the recreational activities to support these wonderful 134
<br />developments going in. Thank you very much. 135
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<br />Henry Nadworny: Lawrence Road neighborhood resident since 1998. I am very happy with it. The growth is not 137
<br />something I’m happy with the planning and positioning of where these projects lie and I think it is stopping the properties 138
<br />more than they accommodate. I think there is plenty of other choices that could be made more wisely. I have not 139
<br />researched available properties, but I believe in the area, there are larger potential positioning ….requirements for the 140
<br />project, I am not that familiar with whether they need the water or whether it needs the sewer or not. I’ve heard different 141
<br />things change as this went on. From the meeting last week to this week, I hear now they are going to pay for the turning 142
<br />lanes. What those turning lanes accommodate, I still don’t agree with, that that is not going to stop the flow of things 143
<br />because you have so much going into this, not just at school times but weekends and at night and they are going to 144
<br />stagger the drop off…I just don’t see that flowing. With other projects like the 76 townhomes on the other side of me 145
<br />going in, and the studies that were done through Covid to say, we saw this many cars, I don’t think those figures are 146
<br />correct. I don’t have the knowledge to tell you that you are wrong with thinking that a turn lane will take care of it. I do see 147
<br />historical homes being attacked that people have purchased in this area knowing the zone is residential and now all of a 148
<br />sudden, we can just try and change that by saying it’s not residential anymore, we are going to put a business in there. 149
<br />What give you the right to say that that’s okay for me and not you and you’ve changed things that have been in place for 150
<br />years. I see not having water pressure anymore, I see runoff issues, I see water collection flowing into the drinking water 151
<br />, so now we are going to have tennis court runoff, all the runoff on this…I heard walking trails, I don’t see walking trails in 152
<br />there, I just see them taking all the trees out . It was a walking trail and park facility and made for everybody to have fun 153
<br />and go play tennis and all, that would be great, but you are stuffing a school on top of it and you are into the watershed 154
<br />and killing the area around it. What about the two historical sites that I don’t see anybody addressing that they are going 155
<br />to need to lose road frontage. I don’t know if you are voting on this tonight….I don’t agree, thank you. 156
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<br />Amber Bickford: I am a STEM professional, a mother of a 12-year-old, and a resident of Orange County. As a STEM 158
<br />research professional, with 25 years’ experience in biotechnology, I can assure you that our 21st Century needs STEM 159
<br />education at the high school level. We need critical thinkers, creative thinkers, problem solvers, and people that work 160
<br />collaboratively. These are skills that are needed to address the many critical challenges of the 21st century, including 161
<br />climate change, and sustainability, something that is very important to this community, as you well know. Why not here in 162
<br />Orange County where the Lawrence Road project directly addresses the UDO and aligns with the greater community’s 163
<br />ideas? On April 5th, you heard Joey Webb, West Triangle High School Leader, explain to you the innovative academic 164
<br />programming that he has led at multiple schools. You learned that West Triangle High is committed to the social and 165
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