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14 1 labeled, occurs when Afro-American neighborhoods are kept just outside of a town's 2 boundaries, resulting in a low level of service, reduced access to infrastructure, and limited or 3 no political voice in land use and committee decisions. He said that they are requesting that 4 their recommendation from the Rogers Road Enhancement Task Force be included in the 5 Orange County Comprehensive Plan, and that the plan include specific recommendations and 6 actions to: 7 1. End the 35 -year burden of solid waste facilities in the Rogers- Eubanks neighborhood 8 and the Rogers Road historic area; 9 2. Provide public funding for provision of safe drinking water and sewer service to all 10 households in the Rogers- Eubanks neighborhood and the Rogers Road historic 11 area; 12 3. Provide funding for other basic municipal service to residents of the Rogers- Eubanks 13 neighborhood and Rogers Road historic area, including, but not limited to paved 14 roads, paved sidewalks, storm drains, street lights, public bus service (including 15 covered bus stops), and emergency protection service (such as fire, police 16 protection, ambulatory, and rescue squad). 17 18 He said that in looking at the Comprehensive Plan and the inter - territorial jurisdiction 19 plan, the plan that was implemented in the 1800's specifically has a boundary between the 20 neighborhoods. He said that this plan excluded water from coming into the historic area. He 21 encouraged the County Commissioners to look at these papers. 22 23 Fred Black chairs the Community Action Network and also participates with the Orange 24 County Comprehensive Plan Coalition. He said that this has been an amazing process but also 25 a very difficult process. He said that since the second draft on May 2 "d, it has been hard work to 26 delve into it. One of the goals has been to help the coalition educate itself so that it could 27 educate the community and encourage them to participate in this process. He has concerns 28 that enough time has not been built into the schedule to allow the thorough review, study, and 29 evaluation that a plan of this magnitude requires. He asked the Board to consider how else to 30 receive input from people who are going to be hard pressed in the summer to pay attention to 31 this plan. 32 Ruby Sinreich said that she is still trying to learn about the plan. She agrees with all of 33 the other comments before her. She has two main concerns. One is about intergovernmental 34 cooperation. She does not see any evidence of this in the creation of the plan. She was the 35 Chair of the Chapel Hill Planning Board until about a year ago, and she did not even know about 36 this plan. She said that if the plan proposes doing intergovernmental cooperation, it needs to 37 model that in the creation of the plan. In addition, planning in a vacuum is not useful when the 38 borders are obviously contiguous. Her other concern is land use. She said that we have to 39 envision a future where gas is not cheap. She is very concerned when she sees disconnected 40 areas of development such as the economic development districts. This is not how 41 communities grow and it does not reinforce the support of land use. She is concerned that the 42 EDDs will encourage more sprawl. She would like to see how transportation and other 43 infrastructure will support economic development districts and wherever there will be growth and 44 activity. 45 46 Robbin Taylor -Hall read an email from the Simpson Efland Heirs: 47 "The late Simpson Efland left six heirs. Siblings Ann E. Gandy and Mack P. Efland, Jr., 48 were his Administrators. Both have power of attorney to dispose of the land. 49 Mack Efland and I hereby request, representing the heirs, that water critical be removed 50 from this property and that water and sewer be brought to land in the Efland Small Area Plan. 51 It is the intention of the heirs to effect an orderly disposition of the land holdings.