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Extra - Territorial Jurisdictions (ETJ's): Land outside of (but adjacent to) the corporate limits <br />of a municipality where the municipality assumes land use planning and development permitting <br />authority. These are envisioned to be areas which, over time will become part of the <br />municipality's corporate limits. <br />Growth: A natural increase, as in size or amount, particularly in relation to housing and <br />population. <br />Growth Budget: A Growth Budget is an important policy planning tool for organizing a large <br />body of key resource data to use as a basis for making tough decisions regarding growth and <br />balancing demands on resources. Development of a growth budget would involve assessment <br />and tracking of resource availability /quality for land, water, and air with an eye to examining the <br />limits on amount and rate of use of these resources so that their quality and intrinsic values are <br />maintained /not impaired. It would also examine the impacts of growth/development on other <br />resources such as transportation and sewer infrastructure. This resource assessment would then <br />be used as a basis for developing a budget that would be a means for allocating these resources, <br />guided by knowledge of limitations to growth and of what is required for growth in this area. The <br />budget would be most successful /rational if developed on a regional scale, with broad input and <br />participation. <br />Hamlet: A hamlet is a rural configuration of houses and small commercial enterprises and <br />community services, developed in keeping with the current community character, located at any <br />one of the five existing Rural Community nodes (centers) in the County (Caldwell, Carr, Cedar <br />Grove, Schley, White Cross). Hamlets would not have access to public water and sewer lines, <br />and development of these centers as hamlets is not meant to encourage extension of urban <br />services tothese areas. <br />Inclusionary Zoning: Inclusionary zoning is a technique applied to new housing developments <br />in which a certain portion of the units being constructed are set aside to be affordable to low- and <br />moderate - income home buyers. This technique may by applied to both rental and owned units, <br />and single- or multi - family housing projects. Inclusionary zoning ordinances can be either <br />mandatory, requiring developers to build a specified number of affordable units, or voluntary, <br />based on development incentives, such as density bonuses which allow a developer to build more <br />units (at a higher density) on the same site in exchange for the inclusion of a number of <br />affordable units. Inclusionary zoning ordinances generally contain provisions defining income <br />eligibility requirements, criteria used for determining the pricing of affordable units, restrictions <br />on the resale of affordable units (to ensure that new owners do not turn around and resell the <br />units at market rates), and provisions for the payment of fees in -lieu of construction. <br />Infill Development: Development that occurs on undeveloped lots in existing town <br />neighborhoods or developed areas, which may or may not be of higher density or scale than the <br />surrounding neighborhood. <br />Living Wages: Wages needed to cover the costs of living that families of different sizes must <br />meet to be self - sufficient. This number varies depending on the size and composition of the <br />family. <br />110 <br />