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153 • and to be listening to each other. BOB STRAYHORN, member of the Rural Character Study Committee, stated that he recommends the changes being presented tonight to his friends who own property in the Rural Buffer. The changes will make it better for them to live with the Land Use Plan and what is happening in the RB. If this is adopted, it will remove most of the frustrations in getting through the process. He stated that there is no way to satisfy those people who want no rules in the RB or those that want no growth in the RB. This is a good balance with a lot of give and take. They tried to be sensitive to the concerns of the landowner. He hopes that the Committee will be allowed to bring this study to a conclusion and that it will not be given over to another committee. NOTE: The following three items are so integrally related to each other that they were considered together under one presentation. Following each item is a brief summation of each topic. The presentation and comments follow these brief summaries: 1. CONCEPTUAL GUIDELINES FOR THE RURAL BUFFER This item was presented to receive public input on the recommended strategy for the Rural Buffer, as adopted by the Rural Character Study Committee. 2. LUP-4-90 JOINT PLANNING AREA LAND USE PLAN 1111 This item was presented to receive public input on a proposed amendment to the text of the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan for Orange County, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro. These amendments are part of a three-part package, related to the recommended strategy for the Rural Buffer entitled Conceptual Guidelines for the Rural Buffer, and an amendment to the Joint Planning Agreement. The amendments to the text of the plan involve changes to the following sections: Section III. Infrastructure and Public Services Section V. Joint Planning Operating Principles Section VI. Future Land Use - JPA Section VII. Overview of Implementation Strategies These amendments all deal with one of the following issues: 1) Extension of water and sewer into a defined corridor for planned "Rural Villages" . 2) Development standards for lots in the rural Buffer. Currently, a minimum lot size of two-acres is required. The proposed standards would retain that standard as one of five permitted development options, adding others that provide for larger lots and/or environmentally-sensitive site design through clustered or planned developments. • 3) Creation of "Rural Villages", with a small scale commercial core designed to serve the village only.