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Approved & T23 110 baseball fields . . . . I love baseball , I used to grow up watching my third cousin play for the Yankees . I think we need more 111 baseball fields and tennis courts . However, I do have concerns about the noise and I also have concerns about the 112 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 113 proper safeguards , something to deflect the noise , whether it is trees or whatever. I just want to make sure that we are 114 aware that there is a community that is very peaceful and we get along very well together . It is a very diverse community 115 and we want to make sure that anyone that wants to join our community , fits in . Thank you so much . 116 117 Marian Adamson : My family was drawn to Hillsborough by the lovely people and the great programs . We 've bounced 118 around from various programs and now I have a son who does baseball at HYAA and my husband is an assistant coach . 119 1 have another son who does tennis with the Orange Tennis Club . He told me today that the good thing about tennis is 120 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 121 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 122 took my entire family Monday evening really late because it was the only time we could find available . I know that HYAA 123 is losing some of their fields and we really love that baseball program . On top of that , I have 4 children at the Expedition 124 School , a charter school in Hillsborough that will feed into Triangle West High School if it is able to have a location and 125 we have loved our charter school . The commitment of the people there to our students , the great teaching staff, my kids 126 have really flourished at this charter school . We need options for people of all locations and backgrounds to have places 127 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 128 our family would be a huge proponent of this . It would mean that my children would be in the same area instead of 129 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 130 the community . I am so glad they are putting in these beautiful neighborhoods in Hillsborough and Orange County but 131 we really do need the schools and the support system and the recreational activities to support these wonderful 132 developments going in . Thank you very much . 133 134 Henry Nadworny : Lawrence Road neighborhood resident since 1998 . 1 am very happy with it . The growth is not 135 something I ' m happy with the planning and positioning of where these projects lie and I think it is stopping the properties 136 more than they accommodate . I think there is plenty of other choices that could be made more wisely . I have not 137 researched available properties , but I believe in the area , there are larger potential positioning . . . . requirements for the 138 project, I am not that familiar with whether they need the water or whether it needs the sewer or not . I ' ve heard different 139 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 140 lanes . What those turning lanes accommodate , I still don ' t agree with , that that is not going to stop the flow of things 141 because you have so much going into this , not just at school times but weekends and at night and they are going to 142 stagger the drop off. . . I just don ' t see that flowing . With other projects like the 76 townhomes on the other side of me 143 going in , and the studies that were done through Covid to say , we saw this many cars , I don ' t think those figures are 144 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 145 historical homes being attacked that people have purchased in this area knowing the zone is residential and now all of a 146 sudden , we can just try and change that by saying it' s not residential anymore , we are going to put a business in there . 147 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 148 years . I see not having water pressure anymore , I see runoff issues , I see water collection flowing into the drinking water 149 , so now we are going to have tennis court runoff, all the runoff on this . . a I heard walking trails , I don 't see walking trails in 150 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 151 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 152 and killing the area around it. What about the two historical sites that I don ' t see anybody addressing that they are going 153 to need to lose road frontage . I don ' t know if you are voting on this tonight . . . . I don ' t agree , thank you . 154 155 Amber Bickford : I am a STEM professional , a mother of a 12 -year-old , and a resident of Orange County . As a STEM 156 research professional , with 25 years ' experience in biotechnology , I can assure you that our 21 st Century needs STEM 157 education at the high school level . We need critical thinkers , creative thinkers , problem solvers , and people that work 158 collaboratively . These are skills that are needed to address the many critical challenges of the 21 st century , including 159 climate change , and sustainability, something that is very important to this community , as you well know . Why not here in 160 Orange County where the Lawrence Road project directly addresses the UDO and aligns with the greater community' s 161 ideas ? On April 5th , you heard Joey Webb , West Triangle High School Leader, explain to you the innovative academic 162 programming that he has led at multiple schools . You learned that West Triangle High is committed to the social and 163 emotional well being of the student body and the willingness to collaborate with the broader education community . This 164 is the benefit of charter schools in your community . Steps from here where we sit tonight as a charter school here in