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roads or developing a connectivity plan. These rural roads could see a change in their character as a result of this plan and it will be important to promote coordination between developers for the planning of bicycle, pedestrian, transit and automobile transportation routes. Also, increased incentives could be included in the plan to encourage developers to dedicate additional lands for park development and to ensure that the dedicated parklands would be interconnected. Its important to make sure that land is dedicated in such a way as to serve the entire community by having these lands be interconnected rather than having small five-acre parcels distributed throughout the area. He mentioned that this may already be addressed in Carrboro's Parks and Recreation Ordinance. If that is the case, he suggested that it be referenced in this document. The same idea could be implemented into the Office Assembly (OA) so that it does not result in many one-acre OA areas. Lastly, he commented on Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) . He suggested that there be support for statewide enabling legislation to allow the Transfer of Development Rights. This is an opportunity to implement the Transfer of Development rights program in an area which has all of the characteristics of a "receiving area", such as water and sewer and good transportation. Some of the TDR techniques could be implemented with this area being the receiving area. He stated that County staff would continue their review of the existing Town Ordinance. Finally, he mentioned that it is important that the County be brought in the process for informal review as soon as is possible in the process. QUESTIONS AND/OR COMMENTS FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS: Chair Gordon asked if the Ordinance could be annotated by strikethrough or bold type so that it would be easier to track the modifications. Town Manager Morgan stated that they have annotated changes in the past but the current changes are extensive and they had not attempted to do that. He indicated that they were available to Orange County staff to make sure that they clearly understood the changes. Chair Gordon referred to the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR's) and suggested finding a way that TDR's could be implemented without holding up the process of adopting these amendments. She suggested that there could be a reserve section that could be fleshed out at a later time. If the Ordinance were adopted with the higher densities put into place it could not be changed later, however, if a reserve section were included, then the reserve section could be fleshed out later. Alderman Gist stated that she was thinking along similar lines of creating a "bookmark" which would allow TDR's to be included in the plan at a later date. Mayor Nelson stated that he was supportive of TDR's as a concept and he felt that they could possibly work in this particular case. However, he also felt that it could be difficult to get community support in the Small Area Planning area. This is suggesting funneling density into an area where residents probably do not want more density. It would be possible to build that type of community support because it would in fact take density away from areas we want to protect and locate it where density could be better supported. If the Board of Commissioners are interested in pursuing this it will take a great deal of time to work with people in this area building that kind of support. Chair Gordon stated that she had made the assumption that this density would be created in the villages as a part of the plan.