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00046 1e 2, 2 3a 4. The Board thanked the architects for their presentations S• and asked that this item be returned to the 4th Monday meeting for 5. discussion of the proposals thus far. 7• Ms. Onie Evans said she was interested in the Museum as it 8• was now in the Old Courthouse. She said the Old Courthouse needs 9. repair work. She suggested the Board consider extending the New 10. Courthouse toward the Board of Education and also asked the Board 11. consider the Firestation across the street as courtroom space rather 12. than using the Old Courthouse. 13• Agenda Item E-6: Upper Eno Watershed 14- Commissioner Barnes gave the history of the University Lake 15• Watershed moratorium :and noted that the Town of Hillsborough had 16. requested some provision of protection for its watershed. Commis- 17• sioner Walker protested that the County had no zoning ordinance for 18. that area of the Eno watershed which extended into Cheeks Township 19• and that this consideration of a moratorium on development in the 20. Upper Eno Watershed would extend zoning into an- area which doesn't 21. desire zoning. The County Attorney, Geoffrey Gledhill, said this 22. was a temporary action,pending permanent action and "if you place 23• a moratorium on all subdivision in the Upper Eno Watershed and the 24. amendments `incorporating the recommendations of the Water Resources �5• Task Force Report% are adopted by the Board [of Commissioners/ then �0• the zoning ordinance will replace the moratorium where it :exists and 27° if unzoned it the moratorium/ will no longer exist." 28. Mr. Ben Lloyd spoke at length. in opposition to extending the 29* moratorium into Cheeks Township. He expressed concern at the pre- 30• vention of industry locating in that area. `Commissioner Gustaveson 31• told Mr. Lloyd that the issue is the protection of the water supply 32• for the Town of Hillsborough; that the Board of Commissioners was 33* in favor of industry locating in Orange County and had encouraged 34• industry; however, the point was to set standards so that industries 35. locating in the watersheds would not pollute or endanger the drinking 36. water for the Towns:;of Orange County. 37• Commissioner Gustaveson went on the record saying the Board 38. was not opposed to industry locating in Cheeks Township; the Board 39. 40.