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do not know what the Planning Staff would do - start over on a new job. The framework is there in the present document. The questien of the technical nature needs to be clarified and 2 don't know what suggestion of the framework of the committee would be, but the technical committee suggest to me that it is not just us somebody needs to lend some tech- nical assistance to developing the amendments." Chairman Garrett stated, "the committee as proposed by Norm Gustaveson was two member from this Board, two members from the Planning Board, and the Planning Staff." Commissioner Gustaveson stated, "or two members appointed by this Board or two members appointed by the Planning Board." Commissioner Whitted stated, "so it is a misnomer then necessarily to call it a technical committee." Commissioner Gustaveson inserted, "the point of that was that is would be a committee that would really, you know, that would refine a document." Commissioner Whitted stated, "but they could use some technical folks like we had at the Carolina Inn." Commissioner Gustaveson suggested, "the work would be done by the committee as suggested." Commissioner Finney stated, "let me ask .one question._What.:are we going to do? Are you going to give the committee and say are .you going to come up with .a document and bring it before us and then we go either up or down with it or are we going to sit here and peck it to death." Commissioner Gustaveson stated, "I think the point is that we have been through two public hearings where a lot of questions were raised. We had one meeting with some technical experts where a whole series of other questions were raised. Some were answered and 2 would hope that anybody who serves on this committee would have heard of that give and take and I think this Board has raised a lot of questions about it. The charge to the committee really should be one, Z think, at least should be on the Agenda is to start anew - to come up with some new amendments to try to reach the objectives that we are concerned about or to take ~. the present framework as proposed in the present set of amendments and to refine those with a kind of technical refinement both in language and in concept." Commissioner Pinney replied, "you have still not answered my question Norm. Is this thing going to come up and we vote it down in one block or are we going to set here and Kassel over it,.every sentence, like we have done before?" Chairman Garrett stated, "what 2 would like to see, and I do not know if it can be done or not, but something that worked very effectively on the Land Policy Council was we had something called the Wording Committee and all they did, was to refine the document and present, after the big policy questions, a series of alternates and then the full Council could choose. You either take 10 percent slope, or you do away with slope, you have 100 feet setback, 200 feet, or no setback, and you present those clearly defined alternatives for the full policy force to vote on. Now that's the way I would like to think is the way out of the problem. There may be five different points of view here and I don't know how if two members of this Board serve on the technical committee and they come back with their opinion and, maybe, three other people here who don't think that is the right way to go, that's the difficuli~I see." Commr~ssioner Pinney stated,."or there may be a Minority .Report or a Majority Report from the Technical Committee. I still feel that since this is the Board that is going to have to make the "cold turkey choice' that we are the ones that should be revising.: it or doing what you want to with it." Commissioner Gustaveson added, "no, 2 think that the one policy decision is that to what extent is the presently recommended amendments within the ballpark as far as the objectives that we would like to reach and it seems to me that if that is decided, then the committee would have that as a pretty clear policy decision; and I think secondly and one of my concerns, and 2 indicated that at the meeting that needs to be worked on, is not only some of the technical questions whether its lot size,