Save Hillsborough from Massive Trucking Warehouses
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Can you imagine Semis on This Road? We Cannot!
An out of state developer is attempting to rezone property in a residential Hillsborough neighborhood to allow for the construction of a massive (161 acre) Industrial Warehouse project in Orange County, NC. The main exit for the facility will be built on Davis Rd (pictured above) only 30' from someone's home. The County Planning Board has inexplicably voted in favor of this rezoning. Our County Commissioners will be voting soon, Sept 15th, 2020. 90% of all traffic leaving this development (at least 1,600 vehicles) will be exiting into a residential neighborhood, with potentially hundreds of diesel trucks per day queuing next to a preschool and church. The amount of NOISE and Diesel Pollution will forever change the lives of the dozens of residents living nearby. It's also in violation of a host of health and safety recommendations from the CDC and EPA, not to mention Orange County ordinances.
Approval of this rezoning will negatively impact a large part of our County and the Town of Hillsborough, just north of this development. Even if you don’t live near Davis Road (pictured), the spillover traffic will impact everyone in Hillsborough, as the massive increase in traffic will further clog the already congested Churton Rd as trucks make their way to I-85. The I-40/Old 86 intersection is set to become nearly impassable as minimal improvements are expected to be made at this intersection.
SaveHillsborough is a group of county citizens trying to prevent this. We need your donations ASAP to help with legal fees, traffic studies, environmental impact studies etc. The cost of fighting large Development is not cheap -- we need YOUR help!!!!
Your help will be invaluable to our cause and toward maintaining the integrity and beauty of Orange County, NC. Thank you!! Please visit our website www.SaveHillsborough.com for more information and ways that you can help.
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This is the sound of a refrigerated Diesel Truck WITHOUT the engine running. Imagine living 30 feet from 5-10 of these trucks, engines running 24/7 -- that's right, this facility will operate at ALL hours of the day, destroying the peace and quiet of everyone in the surrounding areas.
Environmental Concerns
The current site plan does not go far enough to protect neighbors from impacts, nor protect the water quality and quantity within Cates Creek and the Eno. The site contains nearly 6 acres of Natural Heritage Natural Area, which the design proposes to entirely cover over. The site also encompasses 2,500 feet of Cates Creek, a nutrient sensitive waterway. This area of the Eno supports several rare freshwater mussels and fish, including the state endangered Atlantic Pigtoe and Yellow Lampmussel, as well as the state threatened Eastern Lampmussel, Notched Rainbow, Creeper, and Triangle Floater. We must protect this critical conservation corridor, as it connects habitat in the Eno watershed to habitat in the New Hope watershed: the Eno-New Hope Wildlife Habitat Connectivity corridor. We need the County Commissioners to vote ‘NO’ on this proposal. Further, we believe the developer needs to address these concerns by ensuring better buffers between the warehouses and existing structures, preserving critical habitat and the wildlife corridor, and managing the stormwater from the site as a resource. They could do this by way of a green roof to reduce heating and cooling costs while still providing bird, bee, and wildlife habitat; and installing permeable pavement that allows water to soak into the ground and slowly be released into the streams. While development is important to our region and our communities, it must be done in a way that fits with existing uses and preserves our natural assets.
Please don't allow this to happen to our beautiful, peaceful town:
Thank you for your support!!
An out of state developer is attempting to rezone property in a residential Hillsborough neighborhood to allow for the construction of a massive (161 acre) Industrial Warehouse project in Orange County, NC. The main exit for the facility will be built on Davis Rd (pictured above) only 30' from someone's home. The County Planning Board has inexplicably voted in favor of this rezoning. Our County Commissioners will be voting soon, Sept 15th, 2020. 90% of all traffic leaving this development (at least 1,600 vehicles) will be exiting into a residential neighborhood, with potentially hundreds of diesel trucks per day queuing next to a preschool and church. The amount of NOISE and Diesel Pollution will forever change the lives of the dozens of residents living nearby. It's also in violation of a host of health and safety recommendations from the CDC and EPA, not to mention Orange County ordinances.
Approval of this rezoning will negatively impact a large part of our County and the Town of Hillsborough, just north of this development. Even if you don’t live near Davis Road (pictured), the spillover traffic will impact everyone in Hillsborough, as the massive increase in traffic will further clog the already congested Churton Rd as trucks make their way to I-85. The I-40/Old 86 intersection is set to become nearly impassable as minimal improvements are expected to be made at this intersection.
SaveHillsborough is a group of county citizens trying to prevent this. We need your donations ASAP to help with legal fees, traffic studies, environmental impact studies etc. The cost of fighting large Development is not cheap -- we need YOUR help!!!!
Your help will be invaluable to our cause and toward maintaining the integrity and beauty of Orange County, NC. Thank you!! Please visit our website www.SaveHillsborough.com for more information and ways that you can help.
WANT TO KNOW MORE???
This is the sound of a refrigerated Diesel Truck WITHOUT the engine running. Imagine living 30 feet from 5-10 of these trucks, engines running 24/7 -- that's right, this facility will operate at ALL hours of the day, destroying the peace and quiet of everyone in the surrounding areas.
Environmental Concerns
The current site plan does not go far enough to protect neighbors from impacts, nor protect the water quality and quantity within Cates Creek and the Eno. The site contains nearly 6 acres of Natural Heritage Natural Area, which the design proposes to entirely cover over. The site also encompasses 2,500 feet of Cates Creek, a nutrient sensitive waterway. This area of the Eno supports several rare freshwater mussels and fish, including the state endangered Atlantic Pigtoe and Yellow Lampmussel, as well as the state threatened Eastern Lampmussel, Notched Rainbow, Creeper, and Triangle Floater. We must protect this critical conservation corridor, as it connects habitat in the Eno watershed to habitat in the New Hope watershed: the Eno-New Hope Wildlife Habitat Connectivity corridor. We need the County Commissioners to vote ‘NO’ on this proposal. Further, we believe the developer needs to address these concerns by ensuring better buffers between the warehouses and existing structures, preserving critical habitat and the wildlife corridor, and managing the stormwater from the site as a resource. They could do this by way of a green roof to reduce heating and cooling costs while still providing bird, bee, and wildlife habitat; and installing permeable pavement that allows water to soak into the ground and slowly be released into the streams. While development is important to our region and our communities, it must be done in a way that fits with existing uses and preserves our natural assets.
Please don't allow this to happen to our beautiful, peaceful town:
Thank you for your support!!
Organizer
Joan Kalnitsky
Organizer
Hillsborough, NC
