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<br /> 437 This is why actually we moved here and relocated from Durham to Hillsborough a year ago. Now
<br /> 438 one thing that I wanted to ask this, this board and anyone that is responsible for approving or
<br /> 439 thinking about or considering this is that the accountability is there. One of my concerns is 1
<br /> 440 actually, our house,we volunteered to use our well for the water test to see if there is a draw down
<br /> 441 effect. We were part of the neighbors, and at that time there was another neighbor that wanted to
<br /> 442 as well, and I was glad that they did use our well. My concern is that they used the minimum
<br /> 443 requirement,the minimum that is required by North Carolina, and in looking and researching
<br /> 444 usually it's actually suggested that four to six existing wells be used, and especially North Carolina
<br /> 445 actually states that they recommend more observation wells if there is heterogeneous aquifers,
<br /> 446 and so right now we're actually researching even in our own home where there is water
<br /> 447 fluctuations, and we're planning to hire a plumber to see what that's about because after being
<br /> 448 there a year that was not the case. The other thing is, the concern is in researching the parent
<br /> 449 company for Forestar, DR Horton,there was a complaint for injunctive relief and civil penalties in
<br /> 450 Baltimore, Maryland. The department had issued a complaint for injunctive relief and civil
<br /> 451 penalties for the unpermitted discharge of pollution in violation of sediment pollution, so my
<br /> 452 concern is not what's done, it's how it's done. I don't have the expertise to really keep them
<br /> 453 accountable, and I just hope that people keep them accountable. The project that they propose is
<br /> 454 great. My concern is, and having and actually lived in a town home and gone through the process
<br /> 455 where the developer,the builder, and then, you have separate entities, and my question to them
<br /> 456 during the first meeting was who is going to make the builders accountable to or keep that plan
<br /> 457 that you propose? It's a great plan I think, but who is going to actually follow every step of the
<br /> 458 process to make sure that plan results in what you propose? And that's my only concern, and
<br /> 459 also the traffic because right now we have a private road, and we don't have any kind of a
<br /> 460 stoplight, and so it is very treacherous to try to get out. Thank you for your time.
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<br /> 462 Lamar Proctor: All right. Thank you. I don't see an agenda item, but I just want to check, Robert Medred.
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<br /> 464 Robert Medred: Robert Medred. I own the 13.5 acres that this property surrounds me on three sides. I have
<br /> 465 owned that property for 27 years. I was a friend with the Browns, and I watched over it while she
<br /> 466 lived there. I have a question about the diagram of the map. My property has a 1-acre notch
<br /> 467 taken out of the southeast corner. That map,from what I can see because the printing is so small
<br /> 468 up here, it looks like that notch is taken out well away from the southeast corner, so I question
<br /> 469 that. My other question is, I think, based on my walking on my property that I see engineering
<br /> 470 tape on my property,so if there is,we're going to have a problem with that, and I really don't want
<br /> 471 to pay for another survey to prove that they're on my property. I have had surveyors trespass on
<br /> 472 my property. I have had Raleigh State engineers trespass on my property, so I'm not too
<br /> 473 impressed with what is really going on to date, so I'd like to talk to the developer and get more
<br /> 474 information, and I'd like to know what kind of buffer is going to be put to keep people off of my
<br /> 475 property. Is there going to be a fence put up or how is that going to work. I am surrounded. 1
<br /> 476 don't know if I can stop it, but I really don't want it. Not much I can do, but I'm the most affected of
<br /> 477 anyone in this room, and so I would like to be taken seriously on this, and that should do it. Thank
<br /> 478 you.
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<br /> 480 Lamar Proctor: Thank you. Peter Childers.
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<br /> 482 Peter Childers: Peter Childers, and I live on Morrow Mill Road. So,this presentation and development is a cookie
<br /> 483 cutter for the one we heard last month. I think that the people look familiar. It's the same
<br /> 484 developer possibly,and the presentation was cookie cutter. The board approved that one.This is
<br /> 485 the one by White Cross that last month that you guys approved, so I don't know how you're going
<br /> 486 to really not approve this one, but in any event, I have lived long enough to see what creeping
<br /> 487 densities do in destroying quality of life. I have lived through it, seen it, and I've observed it, and
<br /> 488 this is a very nice presentation, but the densities to me are too high. The developer already can
<br /> 489 do 1-acre lots without changing the zoning,and that's what I would approve the 1-acre lots, not
<br /> 490 these half-acre lots where there is barely room to plant a tree. Density presents all sorts of
<br /> 491 problems to communities, and it destroys communities,traffic, more schools, more this, more that.
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