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8 <br /> Detailed Narrative <br /> How the proposed amendment is consistent with, or carries out the intent and <br /> purpose of the adopted Orange County Comprehensive Plan , or part thereof <br /> Well over half of Orange County's population is clustered within the Towns of Chapel Hill and <br /> Carrboro.' It is within these towns where we find the County's most significant tree-related <br /> challenges and needs. These include <br /> • the increasingly disruptive noise pollution created by industrial tree processing <br /> equipment, <br /> • the countless tons of wasted natural resources from tree maintenance and tree removal <br /> services, <br /> • the rising costs of tree ownership compromising the goals of flourishing and equitable <br /> canopy coverage, <br /> • the challenge of attracting, training, and providing local jobs to highly skilled arborists, <br /> • the need to increase tree and tree-care literacy among local property owners, and <br /> • the challenge of providing responsive emergency tree services to south Orange County <br /> population centers. <br /> We, at the Treeist, are uniquely positioned to help meet these needs, but we have outgrown <br /> our current headquarters at the outskirts of Carrboro. We have therefore purchased an ideally <br /> located 10-acre parcel off Millhouse Road, bordering the county landfill. Although located <br /> within the Rural Buffer, the requisite rezoning of this parcel is congruent with the neighboring <br /> parcels and with the County's development directives. Observing how the Treeist's track record <br /> and future aspirations align with the County's own mandated goals and objectives, we argue <br /> that fidelity to the 2030 Comprehensive Plan favors our rezoning needs. <br /> 1. Noise Pollution <br /> The Orange County Comprehensive Plan aims to preserve and promote the tranquility of our <br /> neighborhoods by restricting operations that create noise and dust, such as the wood <br /> processing operations of sawmills and mulch grinders. While well-intentioned, these inflexible <br /> zoning restrictions actually have the effect of bringing the noise of wood processing directly into <br /> our neighborhoods. <br /> ' Comprehensive Plan, p. 5-21: The "population is not evenly distributed throughout the County. Density is <br /> focused in the southern section of the County with fifty-seven percent of the population residing within the <br /> Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro." <br /> 1 <br />