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7 -F 208 MINUTES OF THE ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />July 14, 1969 <br />The Board of County Commissioners of Orange County met in adjourned joint <br />session with the County Planning Board at 8:00 ofclock P.M. on Monday, July 14, <br />1969, in the Courtroom of the Courthouse in Hillsborough for the purpose of <br />holding a Pulbio Hearing on the re-zoning of a four hundred and fifty-three <br />acre site in Chapel Hill Township which is currently owned by Fiber Industries, <br />Inc. <br />Members Present: Chairman Carl M. Smith and Commissioners Harvey D. Bennett, <br />William C. Ray and Henry S. Walker. <br />Members Absent: Commissioner Ira A. Ward. <br />Also present were Charles Johnston, Chairman Orange County Planning Board, <br />Robert Strayhorn, Preston Hogan and Clarence Sockwell, members of the Orange <br />County Planning Board. <br />Chairman Smith called the meeting to order. <br />Chairman Smith read a letter from Earl Hubbard, Executive Director of the <br />State Board of Water & Air Resources Commission. <br />Chairman Smith stated that he was in receipt of a petition which rocuested <br />that the public hearing be adjourned to a date to be set in the fall of the year. <br />Chairman Smith advised the audience the Planning Board and the Board of Commissioners <br />had jointly considered the request made in the petition and had decided to deny <br />same. <br />Chairman Smith asked Norman Long, County Zoning Officer, to read the request <br />for re-zoning to be considered. <br />Norman Long, County Zoning officer, read the application for re-zoning of <br />a four hundred and fifty-three acre tract described as parcel #4 on tax map 16A <br />in Chapel Hill Township from residential to an industrial zone. <br />Chairman Smith turned the chair over to Charles Johnston, Chairman Orange <br />County Planning Board, to conduct the public hearing. <br />Chairman Johnston called upon Richard Sahlie, Chief Engineer of Fiber <br />Industries, Inc., to explain what his company was proposing to construct at their <br />site in Chapel Hill Township. <br />At the conclusion of Mr. Sahlie's remarks, Chairman Johnston advised the <br />audience that the Board had decided to allot 1:15 minutes to proponents of <br />the re-zoning proposal and 1:15 minutes to opponents of the re-zoning proposal. <br />He requested each side to select its Chairman. Chairman Johnston was advised <br />that J. S. Dorton would act as Chairman for the proponents and that B. B. Olive <br />would act as Chairman for the opponents. <br />Chairman Johnston introduced J. S. Dorton, Chairman of the proponents. Mr. <br />Dorton was the first speaker for the proponents. <br />The.following persons spoke for the proponents of the re-zoning proposal. <br />James Johnson, former Director of Development of Duke Power Company. <br />Dr. Roy Lindahl, Chairman of the Chapel Hill School Board, read a resolution <br />of endorsement passed by the Chapel Hill School Board. <br />Paul Alston, Exeoutive Director of the Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action <br />Program, read letters and resolutions of endorsement prepared by the Orange <br />Community Action Agency. <br />Don Matheson, former member of the North Carolina State Senate, read and <br />delivered to the Chairman letters of endorsement from the Farm Organization of <br />the County. <br />Mrs. Quentin Patterson read letters of endorsement from the County Granges. <br />Horace Johnson, member of the Orange County Human Relations Council, spoke <br />giving his individual endorsement of the re-zoning proposal. <br />Roland McClamrock, former Mayor of Chapel Hill, spoke in favor of the <br />re-zoning proposal. <br />Paul Guthrie spoke in favor of the re-zoning proposal. <br />Bill Dorsett spoke giving the endorsement of the orange County Farm Bureau <br />to the re-zoning proposal. .