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