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Approved 8/5/09 ~ ~ acres of commerrial maximum. Maybe part is not the type of uses or the amount of uses, it's just that we need fo make these nodes more community or more neighbofiood, and small. Mark Marcoptos: By that time something may have been built in the larger area. Craig Benedict: It's a rezoning which is a legislative derision. You might have the ability through the legislative to say `let's duster them near the intersection' so I think you might have some latitude because iYs a legislative derision. You do have the ability to duster the LG1s and NG2s. There is that possibility admittedly but I think you have latitude because of the legislative nature to fry to duster them with a tot of other poliries and push it more toward the center. Mark Marcoplos: ff you wanted to be thorough with this process, wouldn't we do the study first and then pass the ordinance we do the comprehensive evaluation. That way you'll ensure that nothing slips through the regulations that was built before the comprehensive evaluation and then you would have a full understanding of what was going to go on in that node and you would do it in relation to the watershed overlay which happened for presumably good reasons after the establishment of this node there just seems to me that would be the most thorough way to protect the water shed and to allow development that we all agree is appropriate, rather than say `go ahead and approve development and then we'll decide later on what that development might be. Judith Wegner. I have not understood the two (2) step practice in following the plan in where there is an expensive intensive study and then it is presented to the Commissioners in that there is some kind of later return to the topic to try to figure out what the Ordinance should be. I would think there is something to be said for thinking about it and how to implement it and then do it rather than a hiatus in the meantime. Now I understand the delay because I would think when we have small area study groups including Commissioners and ctizens, etc. when they come up an idea that it would make sense to try to say how to implement it, let's go ahead with that and deal with it. I feel I am missing something on that. Craig Benedict: I can give you a little background on that. When Small Area Plans (SAPs) are done, they are in a two (2) step process. The ideas of what needs to change in that SAP are put within a document. When it is brought to the Commissioners the future recommendations are embedded in there and the Commissioners have said they want to approve a blueprint first and at least get the SAP accepted or approved and then have a second process that talks about implementing those regulations (noted in the SAP document) through the land use amendment process. Does it take longer, yes. Can it be done together, yes it can also. Judith Wegner. Could they accept certain things and then hold on other things for more work. Craig Benedict: I think if it was very limited SAP focus topic and you wanted to put recent community involvement in and run with it and have the same hearing, it could work. Judith Wegner. We'll talk about it more but for some of the chinches with the speedway area, the discussion about possibilities of Conditional Use Districts, I just don't know if were a property owner in that area what I would think. I'd be in limbo. I wouldn't know whether it was coming back, what the implication may be, recommendations, what was expected to be next. I have to think from the Planning Board point if we are trying to implement the Comp Plan, these are areas That have real potential for impact within the County and having this kind of floating out there unresolved makes me uneasy.. t don't know when we go back to that. ft's confusing even though we try to trade all this for the dozens and the community I don't know what they think or the Planning Board or the community group that helped plan this and that may mean that we may be caught unaware when it move ahead certainly for trying to implement the Comp Plan. It would seem to me that there are the areas we've got some pressure. We should have some priority about what we're doing. Craig Benedict: When I got here ten years ago, I suggested bring both things together, hot topics, community involvement. They just don't want to know the good ideas, they want to know how you're going to do that. How it applies to their property. It's more of a leap and Orange County often does things in very incremental steps. There are two (2) ways to do it. I think there are definite merits with what you're suggesting in bringing things doser together. If we do a Small Area Plan (SAP) and then wait another year to do the implementation it could take three (3) years from start to finish. Judith Wegner: As we think about implementing the Comp Plan we have to think about what are the hot spots to deal with first. The water issues are profound if we foul this up and don't pay attention to what is streaming to University Lake or Cane Creek that will make a real difference to people so somehow we have to make a derision about what happens first and what we are going to do. Brian Crawford: Let me ask, the local citizens that are in the LG1 right now, the property owners understand the rules of the LC- 1 and what they are able to do. Confusion arises because of the seemingly inconsistency with the watershed. All you are trying 5