DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A developer is planning to build thousands of housing units and retail space on vacant land along US-70. It's going to be called Durham Gateway at Brier Creek .

A nearby family is trying to fight those plans.

"I think it's deeply frustrating," said James Stewart IV. "We all have communal concerns that weren't listened to."

The Stewart Family has lived on a 30-acre plot of land for decades. It's quiet and peaceful, even though the busy Brier Creek shopping center is right up the road.

James Stewart III says his parents purchased the lot and cleared it themselves.

The first home was built here in the 1950s, another house went up in the 1980s, and soon a massive development project to go up all around the land.

The Stewart Family has several concerns.

"We woul

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