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1133 L Clarke and Reign D. Clark <br />803 Sawmill Rd. <br />Home Phone (919) 732 -2644 Cedar Grove, North Carolina 27231 <br />Email sawmM803 @AOL.com <br />August 30, 1999 <br />Orange County Planning Board Members <br />Planning and Inspections Department <br />306F Revere Rd. <br />PO Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Dear Planning Board Members, <br />We are writing you to express our concerns regarding the rezoning of the Ernie McBroom <br />Property on Sawmill Rd. Our concerns are as follows: <br />1. Safety <br />2. Noise <br />3. Roads <br />4. Pollution <br />If Mr. McBroom were to create a landscape recycling center as his request for rezoning states, we <br />feel that neighborhood safety would be a concern. There are approximately eighty -three houses <br />on and associated with Sawmill Rd. The majority of these-houses are, at on.the-first half mile of <br />the road west of the McBroom property . Mmiy taf-t$ese "'houses 'have children that wait-for-and <br />and <br />disembark the hoof us .flail Children wait by the roadside at the end of his/her driveway for <br />the bus. Can we assure their safety with an increased number of large tonnage trucks traveling <br />speeds of 45 m g hng at <br />ph, which is the posted speed limit. How can we be assured that debris will be <br />properly secured on these trucks. <br />Sawmill Rd. is a quiet residential neighborhood and the noise that would be made by heavy <br />machinery such as chippers, shredders, .bulldozers and large trucks coming and going would no <br />longer guarantee quiet in places where - people seek it most - -the rural countryside:. According to <br />OSHA, the dBA level for the type of equipment required for a landscape recycling operation <br />would be above what is considered harmful (100- 110dBA) for those working the equipment, <br />which in turn would give the residents near by a constant sound equivalent to the sound of a <br />