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40 61 sliding scale,if someone has small lots that are freestanding all by themselves,there is a sliding scale that allows them to remain 62 at the 12%level. 63 64 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Some of those lots may require the house,just because of the way it perks, to be at the back of the lot 65 which means that a lot of their impervious land will be taken out by the road and driveway and that means the house is getting 66 smaller. 67 68 Craig Benedict: We have been able to analyze the lots and have done typical plans but take a look at a typical one acre lot and 69 how much can be done with the driveway or a two acre lot. We are conscious that the driveway can eat up a lot of space on this 70 and we will be working to have a better scale but here you could have a miniature barn on here plus a house, plus a driveway. 71 Michael,if you could work with Gienn and Jennifer to get more a scale for this. The numbers are right but the scale is skewed. 72 73 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: I am concerned about those properties where there has to be a long driveway to get to the house and what 74 are the negatives to allow somebody a higher level of imperviousness. 75 76 Craig Benedict: We have a 1994 line for the watersheds. The 1994 line was something the Board of Counry Commissioners 77 designated. All they had to do in 1994 by state rules was to put a one half mile buffer around Lake Ben Johnson and half mile 78 buffer around Corporation Lake. The rest of this dark blue outline was a decision of the Board of County Commissioners. They 79 decided in 1994 to preserve the buffer,these reservoirs that weren't here yet, West Fork on the Eno, also, Lake Orange, and 80 another ghost reservoir known as the Upper Eno above McGowan Creek. They also put a buffer around a future reservoir 81 known as Seven Mile Creek. They didn't,in 1994,have good definitions to explain how this line was created. There were holes 82 in the definition. 83 84 Larry Wright: What wouldn't have run up? 85 86 Craig Benedict: The ghost reservoir known as the Upper Eno above McGowan Creek. 87 88 Perdita Holtz: Larry,if you look on page 49 of your packet,those resenroirs are shown. 89 90 Craig Benedict: On page 49,the old blue lines were bubbling around where these points of the reservoir came out but if you try 91 to protect that there would be missing spots there. In October when we had a meeting with the Board of County Commissioners 92 and this board we spoke about some of the controversy that was coming. It was a decision of the Planning Board to get the 93 Comprehensive Plan out of the way and move forward with the development of the UDO and make the definitions better in the 94 UDO. Then I went to the Board of County Commissioners in November 2007, I explained the issue with the watershed lines. 95 They said we know it is an important issue,do it by sectors based on some small area plan interest and then bring it forward. In 96 October, we explained this is what is required and this is what we have done extra. The direction we got from the Board of 97 County Commissioners in October was to make the definitions be about as close as you can get to what the 1994 line was, 98 which is what our proposal does. It is almost exactly the same as the 1994 line with about an 8%difference. (Explained 99 sections on map). If you look at the new definitions,we have almost redefined the 1994 lines with a 92%match. 100 101 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Everything in the dark blue line is critical or is it critical and protected? 102 103 Craig Benedict: Critical has a higher level of protection than protected. 104 105 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Beyond the blue line there is also a protected line out there? 106 107 Craig Benedict: Yes. 108 109 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: How far does that go? 110 111 Craig Benedict: This map shows everything outside the critical,this is all protected. Only the white areas are unprotected. 112 113 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Is there a page or section that describes the difference between protected and critical? 114 115 Craig Benedict: The definitions we have for protected are in our zoning code and we are not changing those because we are 116 saying protected areas as designated by the state watershed,levels 2,3 and 4. We can dig up that reference for you. We can't 117 really change what the protected classification is. 118 119 Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Essentially,the difference in density? 120