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03 3 Susan Smith requested consideration of C-2 and C-3 together. (see pages Lq of this book) Susan Smith presented the item, reviewing each of the,/-,/ proposed districts and the requirements of each of the districts. Valerie Carter, President of the League of Women Voters of Chapel. Hill--Carrboro, reported that on May 5, 1953 at the annual meeting, the League of Women Voters adopted a study on water quality to reach a consensus on issues and actions that would assure and protect the quality of the drinking water. Regulations should be adopted at the local level to protect the water quality and water supply in Orange County. The League of Women Voters urged adoption of these land use plan text amendments .for identifying and regulating land development in the water quality critical watershed areas in Orange County. Lindsey Efland questioned the two acres standard and the provision for road frontage, stating .that most industries are located on at least ten acres of land; the requirements for screening large parking lots is unreasonable; restrictions on business should be reviewed because most businesses that come into our area are small, and we must not regulate the small businesses out of existence. Max Kennedy, local contractor, expressed his concern for those people who want to build homes or start businesses in Orange County: the goal is to provide adequate, reasonable, safe, and suitable housing and the wording of the documents seem to prohibit that; the 6% required of impervious areas is excessive; the language in 9.3 prohibiting public water and sewer services. Gordon Brown, resident of Chapel Hill, spoke in opposition: the land use plan assumes: (1) the 7-mile creek reservoir will be built, (2) technology will not advance through the years so that industrial land use would become compatible with good drinking water, (3) the economic needs of the township will not someday outweigh the interest of other parts of the County in terms of what it wants to do with its own land, (4) that planners are able to forecast the economic development in this particular areas over the next twenty years, (5) by locking off this area into a highly restricted mode of development that the land will increase in value. He made note of the fact that there are to be no lines in the water critical area and/or in areas where the minimum residential lot size is two acres. He made a legal comment, noting that the ony way to accomplish the task is to create a water quality critical area as a special area of concern or special overlay that is in a district in itself. Within the designated special overlay, that it would be appropriate for people requesting zoning or use consideration, to have to address concerns regarding water quality as is normally done under a special use or conditional use program and thus considered on a case by case basis. Margaret Holton, LVTV-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Task Force expressed concerns about the protection of the water supply and the actions that need to be taken now to protect the future of the water supply in Orange County. Once pollution has taken place, it is very hard to clean up so that development should take place away from the critical areas. She supports the recommendations. Mr. Efland asked if there was any consideration for underindustriai development as there is for residential development and if all developments would have to be serves: by underground power which would create problems with the power industry. Max Kennedy noted that in the study for West Orange, it states that the power plant would be "operated, and maintained by a public agency," and nupgtinnn if this creates a conflict.