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rlJ 1 Preserve Rural Orange has a significant grassroots effort underway to persuade the 2 University that building a new county airport would be an unnecessary, expensive, and wasteful 3 use of taxpayer dollars with additional untold costs of infrastructure and maintenance. We have 4 collected 1,800 citizens' signatures in a matter of weeks. Preserve Rural Orange feels we have 5 significant community support and request that the commissioners take action on this matter." 6 7 Chair Jacobs said that this matter would be referred to the staff. The County 8 Commissioners have not discussed the airport issue yet. The process will be as open as 9 possible. 10 Will Raymond is a citizen of Chapel Hill. He spoke about the transfer station siting 11 process. He said that now is the time to start deciding what the County's obligation is in terms 12 of managing solid waste. He said that the County has an obligation to take care of the trash in- 13 County. He said that the County has a finite ability to take care of trash in the community and 14 there should be a decision to live within the means. If the community is going to generate 15 waste, then the community needs to manage it. He said that there have been some missteps 16 with Olver. He said that the answers coming back to the Board of County Commissioners from 17 Olver are not suitable to the Board. He said that the specific criteria weighting was unclear to 18 the community. There was also some confusion about the community input, process: He said 19 that he is encouraged by the airport group and by the Hillsborough and Rogers Road 20 community, in that they have not made the "us vs. them" issue yet. He thinks that the 21 community can work against the natural tendency of us vs. them and make this a collaborative 22 process. He said that tonight should be the night that the County Commissioners should start 23 thinking about siting the next landfill. He suggested siting either an incineration site or a new 24 landfill. He thinks that it should be a new landfill. 25 26 Sara Shields read a prepared statement: 27 This is a request to reconsider acceptable standards of land use in rural farm areas of 28 the county for all organizations, including civic and churches, in keeping with the. rural 29 character. 30 31 ISSUE: 32 1) The development and use of these types of lights is not appropriate for rural areas of 33 the County where farm operations could be disrupted or where individuals could be 34 prevented from making reasonable use of their property. I live in the County to avoid 35 this type of intrusion. These types of lights are more suited for an urban 36 environment. 37 2) With the special events and recreational activities at the church there has been an 38 increase in the amount of noise generated by the church, affecting our ability in 39 making reasonable use of our property. 40 41 REQUEST: 42 43 We have lived in Orange County almost 30 years, since 1979. We have lived at 1600 44 Jimmy Ed Road in Northern Orange County for 11 years. We have 15 acres of pasture land 45 with our residence, barn for our horses, and a riding ring. 46 Recently erected athletic field lights shine into our residence creating a disturbance. 47 There have been occasions when the lights were on after 9 p.m. and we were told that they are 48 entitled to be on until 11 p.m. or later, if a game is in progress. Recent activities at the church 49 are extremely noisy and negatively impact our ability to make reasonable use of our property.