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I0 Mr. Voorhees said they had made it clear that the only way to do that was to work with the regional partners for shared planning and to explore cooperative and multi jurisdictional capital investments and operations, and to develop consistent year-round conservation and water shortage response stages. Mayor Chilton asked whether Durham saw land use planning as being one of the tools that would be brought to bear on water supply. Mr. Voorhees stated he would say that Durham's Board believed that there was an appropriate balance that growth management and growth planning must play in sustainability. He said when you looked at Durham's planning regulations and zoning ordinance, they contained smart growth principles and transit-oriented development components, and they continued to have an urban growth boundary that prevented utilities from being extended outside of that area. Mr. Voorhees said they understood fundamentally that all of the partners around Jordan Lake had its own philosophy and right to self-determination, so the challenge would be where to set thresholds to see a commitment to stewardship and sustainability that could also recognize all the jurisdictions' right to self-determination of land use policies. b) Update from UNRBA 8:20:33 PM Sydney Miller, TJCOG Water Resources Program Manager (attachment hereby incorporated as part of the official Minutes), stated there were three major water resources issues facing the Triangle region that were interrelated and related to growth and development: the Jordan Lake Nutrient Management Strategy, the Falls Lake Nutrient Management Strategy, and water supply. He stated that the series of droughts over the past 10 years had caused them to question the reliability of their existing water supplies and had spurred them to evaluate their rates of growth and their needs for future water supply. Mr. Miller stated that the same growth and development that was threatening the region's water quality was increasing their reliance on those same sources of water. He stated the answer to that challenge of development, water quality degradation, and water supply needs in the Triangle region was in a combination of better land use planning, low intensity development design, water reuse, water conservation, and a second intake facility on Jordan Lake. Commissioner Jacobs pointed out that all of the local governments represented tonight were contributing to TJCOG's development and infrastructure initiative, and Commissioner Cross and Council Member Harrison had attended a meeting that Mr. Miller had helped facilitate that involved many other entities where the two main priorities to work on over the next few years were transportation and water. He stated that group had discussed how much water did they have and how would they accommodate expected growth. Mr. Miller stated that group had identified the importance of a 50-year plan for the region, and similarly such a plan had already been a part of their process. c) Proposed Chatham/Orange Task Forces 8:28:19 PM Laura Blackmon, Orange County Manager (attachment hereby incorporated as part of the official Minutes), provided an update of the discussion at the last Assembly of Governments meeting, noting that the Working Group had been asked at that time to set up a 5