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2A-The News of Orange County,•Hillsborough, NC, Wednesday, January 13,1999
Industrial park proposed '
between Old and New 86
By DeAnna Overmans
The News of Orange County
Boots Elam, of the. design firm
Elam, Todd and d'Ambrosi, on be-
half of the Law Offices of Arthur J.
Berk, brought a propcsal for an in-
dustrial park southeast and adjacent
to Hillsborough, between NorthCaro-
Tina Highway 86 and Old 86 and
north of Interstate 40, to the Hillsbor-
ough Town Commissioners at Mon-
day night's board meeting.
Elam described the park as amixed-
use, planned area development with
offices, retail stores, hotels, clean
manufacturing companies and hous-
ing.
Arthur Berk is the .trustee rt;pre-
senting the 347 acre plan, which is
not. yet named and still in its devel-
opmental stages.
Elam presented what plans are cur-
rently established and requested the
board consider annexing their park
into the town of Hillsborough.
The board directed the town staff
to start work on preparation of an
annexation feasibility study.
- Also attending Monday night's
meeting was Lieutenant Judy Jacobs
and the Fairview Community Polic-
ing Center Committee.
Jacobs is head. of the Community
Policing Program.
The committee brought before the
board a proposal for the Fairview
Community Policing Center.
"The center would serve as a com-
munity policing center, a satellite
office location for government ser-
vices [town and county], and would
have a meeting room that would be
openfor use by community groups,"
Jacobs explained.
Town Manager Eric Peterson
showed the board preliminary maps
of the layout of the center and the
location of the building on the
Fairview Park property.
Mayor Horace Johnson thanked
the committee for forming and pre-
senting the information about the
center and said that the board would
now move forward with presenting
the idea to the Orange County Board
of Commissioners.
The third and final report brought
before the board was presented by
Alison Weiner of the Chapel Hill
Land Trust Implementation Task
Force.
A Community Land Trust is a pri-
vate non-profit membership organi-
zation, made up of concerned citi-
zens,created toacquire and hold land
for future generations.
Weiner explained to the board that
the Land Trust would bring afford-
able housing to Orange County.
The board presented a Resolution
in Memory of Magnolia Satterfield
to her grand daughter Helen Chavis.
Mrs. Satterfield passed away Fri-
day, September 11, 1998.
In other business,: the board ap-
proved aproclamation proclaiming
the official recognition of Feb. 2,
1999, as Groundhog Job Shadow Day
in Hillsborough, approved Jack
Hughes for a second term on the
Planning. Board, approved the con-
sideration for a resolution to create a
capitol reserve fund, and approved
consideration of a position descrip-
tion for Police Lieutenant/Training
Coordinator.
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Attorney asks ,town
to annex 350 acres
By BEN EVANS
The Chapel Hill Herald
HILLSBOROUGH - A developer
wants roughly 350 acres of land adjacent
to Hillsborough annexed into the town so
it can develop the property for mixed
commercial and residential use.
The developer, an unnamed trusYrepre-
sented by the Miami law office of Arthur
J. Berk, is in the proress of purchasing
the land, which stretches south of Hills=
borough from Interstate 85 to Interstate
40 between Old N.C. 86 and N.C. 86.
The group plans to build a hotel, com-
mercial office space, light industrial fa-
cilities and single- and. multi-family resi-
dential homes, county officials said. On
Jan. 5, Berk sent a letter to Hillsborough
Town Manager Eric Peterson expressing
interest. in having the land annexed.
If the land is annexed by the town, any
development proposals would be subject
only to the town review process, which is
potentially simpler than the county re-
view process, town Planning Director
Margaret Hauth said.
Also, the property would receive town
services such as police protection, water
service and garbage collection and would
pay water-service fees half of those it
would pay if outside town limits.
Hillsborough officials have begun pre-
paring afinancial analysis of the income
the property could generate and the costs
of providing the property with town ser-
vices.
"What we have now is not nearly
enough to determine what the costs of
serving that area will be," I-jauth said.
Berk declined to comment on the plan..
"My practice is not to discuss my cli-
ents' business," he said.
Hauth said that once the town has re-,
ceived more information, it will prepare a'
report for the Hillsborough Town Board`
by March at the earliest. The board will
then determine whether to proceed with'
the proposal.
If the board decides to, proceed, the de-:
veloper world file a formal petition • for
annexation, which would result in a public
hearing at which residents could voice-
their opinions on the proposal.
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