20210224 Ver 1_Public Notice Comments_20211018 (2)

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Westpoint
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Paul Bonner
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Comment
With respect: Have they lost their minds? The same reasons that made Eno Drive a bad idea until reason finally
prevailed in the 1990s, finally quelling several decades of ill-advised plans, also make the contemporarily
planned Black Meadow Ridge -- which still showed Eno Drive bounding the most recent site plan I've seen -- a
spectacularly bad idea.
It compounds all of the problems identified with Eno Drive, principally that it destroys irreplaceable natural habitat
in a critical watershed area. The highest and best use of this tract is obviously, as green space, conveniently
near town for visits by nature lovers and a legacy to our children's children, a jewel in Durham's landscape, or
what's left of it.
Also similarly to Eno Drive, while housing, like transportation, may be a priority, it does not need to be in this
location. We mustn't let the good of affordability in housing (or the specious, and, I suspect, cynical invocation of
it, now that $350,000 homes are being touted as "affordable") trump all other concerns.
Please do your clear duty and deny a water quality permit to the Black Meadow Ridge development.
Thank you,
Paul Bonner
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