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The Treeist <br />1200 Hatch Rd <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27516 <br />www.treeist.com <br />Dear Mr. Stancil (and all others concerned about conflicts with the anticipated soccer complex), <br />I received your letter dated November 21, 2023 about our easement to Millhouse Rd and the <br />anticipated soccer complex. Your thoughtful articulation of the concerns allows us to plan in a <br />way that accommodates your aspirations for a future Millhouse Road Park. As neighbors, I <br />foresee a cooperative relationship between the Treeist and County that will benefit local <br />residents whom we both serve. <br />Your primary concern, as I understand it, is for the safety of those who would use the County’s <br />anticipated soccer complex. You are also concerned about the potential limitations that the <br />access road, as currently located, might place upon future designs for the soccer complex. <br />You ask that the County require us to “work with the County and the tower owner to re-route the <br />access easement.” You suggest that this re-routing should be done “sooner rather than later.” <br />Acknowledging the importance of concerns you raise, we are happy to work with the County by <br />limiting and adjusting our own development plans. We have done this by dedicating a portion of <br />our own land to accommodate the possibility that the County may one day wish to relocate our <br />access easement to the opposite corner of our parcel. By incorporating this limitation into our <br />site plans we have permanently constrained our own development options in order to increase <br />those of the County. <br />Our request is that the County avoid imposing further constraints or costs that go beyond the <br />accommodations which we have made. In particular, we would object to the County requiring us <br />at our own expense to construct an entirely new roadway to Millhouse Road in the prospect that <br />this may one day aid the County’s own development plans. In the remainder of this letter I argue <br />why such an imposition would be unwarranted and why our development plans are not at odds <br />with the County’s. <br />(Note to the reader: I apologize for this letter’s length; if, with our site plan accommodation, our <br />plans strike you as harmonious with those of the County, you needn’t read any further.) <br />Background <br />The aerial map below shows our current access road in white. This is a gravel road that runs <br />alongside the power lines to our property. The red line represents the approximate location of <br />the alternative access route that I believe David Stancil is suggesting. As shown, it would be <br />approximately 2,300 feet in length, which is nearly a half of a mile. The land it runs through is <br />currently heavily wooded. Both the white line and the red line cross Old Field Creek and its <br />133