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265 <br /> Approved 8.7.24 <br /> 803 <br /> 804 Aadra Bhatt: Oh, yes, sorry. My name is Aadra Bhatt. I live on Labrador Lane adjacent to the planned <br /> 805 subdivision. Sorry, thank you for clearing that up. As I was saying I couldn't really speak <br /> 806 any more eloquently than my neighbors, Dan Eddleman, Ralph Warren, Laura Streitfeld <br /> 807 and the Rapps have already done. So, I just would like to share two major points with <br /> 808 you. I'm a microbiologist by training, and I've submitted my written comments via email to <br /> 809 the board. I'm really concerned about the risk for potentially contaminating our ground <br /> 810 water for existing residents who already live there, while managing the sewage that is <br /> 811 generated by the 300 units that are being proposed to be put up. According to the <br /> 812 presentations at the neighborhood information meeting in April, as well as meetings with <br /> 813 H4D at our neighbor the Warren's home, we shared the seed of the idea that we all found <br /> 814 so charming and wonderful. The proposed development was initially conceived by a <br /> 815 group of well-meaning individuals as an intentional community for 34 locals. Along the <br /> 816 way they've been advised to go big to spread out the cost of construction and <br /> 817 infrastructure, and as it stands today, the proposed project has been moved to a <br /> 818 subdivision with we learn today of maybe a 55-age limit. But that proposes to house 300 <br /> 819 or more residents. When asked who would purchase the remainder units, one of the <br /> 820 investing members has shared that they anticipate more buyers coming from individuals <br /> 821 around the country. So, I'm not sure whether this plan really addresses the needs of <br /> 822 aging members of the Orange County community. I want to stop here and I want to just <br /> 823 close up with some numbers. The times the word senior appears is in the application <br /> 824 packet is 52. The times that the word senior appears in the Fiddlehead developers' <br /> 825 website is 0. The number of senior services that the planning department will actually <br /> 826 hold the developer for putting on to Fiddlehead Corner is 0. The number of times the <br /> 827 Orange County Advisory Board on Aging refers to this development as affordable is 2. <br /> 828 The total area of farmland in Orange County threatened by proposed changes to the <br /> 829 unified development ordinance, the comprehensive plan, the future land use map, and the <br /> 830 zoning map is more than 53,000 acres, thank you. <br /> 831 <br /> 832 Anna Hatcher: Good evening, my name is Anna. I live on Morrow Mill Road at 5802, and this is Chelsea, <br /> 833 my next neighbor, 5811. So, up until today we heard about this age restriction, I was <br /> 834 against all of this project because it had like, we're going to get all the low-income <br /> 835 darkness of Durham right in my back yard. I don't want to have any teenagers selling <br /> 836 drugs to all our kids which live in our expensive, fancy houses, okay? Today when we <br /> 837 heard about 55-plus, I would say I probably will welcome this project with a few <br /> 838 restrictions, no, few adjustments, which we will ask to review and add to the list of <br /> 839 concerns. As it's going to be a community of 55-plus, we will need to have traffic lights, <br /> 840 we will need to have walking paths. We already have an issue of the people on the <br /> 841 bicycles which are extremely, you know, impacting our traffic and there is not really like a <br /> 842 side, or a pass for them to drive safe. So it has to be in the first 3,000 feet on Morrow Mill <br /> 843 Road when they get off Highway 54. It has to be at least in the requirements to the <br /> 844 developers to manage it somehow, maybe widen the road and have a narrow pass for <br /> 845 bicyclists because it's a problem on this road already. And these people are going to be <br /> 846 out to ride. I also have 77-years-old grandpa in my own house and I'm not sure that we <br /> 847 will have challenges with all the bicycles, which we love so much to ride in our street. <br /> 848 Another concern which I have is they want to put the entrance and access, the main one <br /> 849 on Morrow Mill Road. I'm against this entry and exit as the main one. I think it has to be <br /> 850 on Gold Mine Loop because there at least it's slow, less traffic and they can safely enter <br /> 851 and exit. If this enter and exit is going to be on Morrow Mill Road, first of all people just <br /> 852 take off from Highway 54, and they are already on high speed at my mailbox. And we <br />