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August 19, 2010 Mr. Jonathan Marshall Cabarrus County -- Commerce Department P. O. Box 707 Concord, NC 28026 -0707 Dear Mr. Marshall, The purpose of this letter is to propose an offer of repurchase of a parcel of land lying along Shimpock Road from the County. The land that I wish to buy back from the county is a small, irregular shaped parcel (estimated at 1.31 acres) that was originally bought by the County from my father, Everette A. Mesimer on 12/3111986. This is land that I actually thought that I already owned, but during research into the tax valuation of my adjacent homestead property, discovered that my homestead property lines did not extend all the way to Shimpock Road. After making this surprising discovery, I conducted additional research with my elderly mother, and found an envelope tucked in the back of a file cabinet drawer that contained a copy of the original purchase contract wherein the County bought 2.7528 acres of land from Everette known as Parcel 54A of the Coddle Creek Reservoir Project. The history behind why the County wanted to buy this irregular shaped parcel was because a certain, undetermined length of the original Shimpock Road (at the point of where the original roadbed connected with Mooresville Highway) would be covered by water from the new Coddle Creek Reservoir Project. The County Engineers knew that Shimpock Road would have to be moved west of its original location, and hence, this was the reason for the purchase of 2.7528 acres off of the original land parcel of 9.79 acres owned by my father, Everette. Everette and Helen Mesimer, my parents, subsequently in March, 1987, deeded the residual 7.04 acres of land to me in order for me to build a house on the property. Four years later, in 1991, ground was broken on the Coddle Creek Reservoir Project. Dam construction and land clearing was conducted over the next two years, and road construction to movefredirect Shimpock Road out of the new lake basin area was performed in 1993. Evidently, the original plans for redirection of Shimpock road at some point during construction /development changed, and the new roadbed was not built as far west as the boundary line of the land purchased by the County from my father. In Section 6 of the Original Offer to Purchase and Contract signed by Fletcher L. Hartsell, there is a provision that "in the event that Buyer ( Cabarrus County) determines that all or any portion of the subject property is unnecessary for public use ... and is, therefore, excess property, Buyer hereby grants Seller, or their heirs ... a first right of refusal to repurchase all, or any portion of such "excess" property, at the rate of $2,906.13 per acre." Page 11 Attachment number 2 F -6 Page 115