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1.56 Tom Alfieri From: Dara D. Mendez [ddhall@email.unc.edu] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 4:39 PM To:~ CompPlanUpdate Subject: The Orange Counfy Comprehensive Plan ~, ATT2294141.htm (14 KB) Dear Comprehensive Plan Coordinators, I, Dara Mendez, request that the Orange County Comprehensive Plan include specific plans and recommendations for solutions to the issues raised by the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) and the Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER). The Rogers- Eubanks communities are vital to the development of Orange County and have been forced to live with a landfill that collects the gargage of ALL. Orange County residents. The community would like remedies for the following issues: 1) Ending the 35 year burden of hosting of solid waste facilities by the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood; 2) Providing funding for provision of safe, public, regulated drinking water and sewer service to all households in the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood; 3) Providing funding for other basic municipal services to residents of the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood including, but not limited to paved roads, paved sidewalks, stormwater drains, street lights, public bus service (including covered bus s.tops), emergency protection services (i.e., fire, police protection, .ambulatory and rescue squad). As a resident of Chapel Hill as well as a public health activist, it is important that the needs and concerns of this community are implemented into a plan that should be comprehensive. In Orange County's attempts to create a comnprehensive plan, this plan should not exclude any community but should treat all communities equally. Sincerely, Dara Mendez Dara D. Mendez, MPH Doctoral Candidate NRSA Predoctoral Fellow Department of Maternal and Child Health UNC School of Public Health ddhall®email.unc.edu 2000 Baity Hill Drive Apt 210 Chapel Hill, NC 27514