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~J~ that similar development should be on both sides of the road. - Robert Nichols, owner of property in Cheeks Township, expressed concern that a five-year update of the Plan is being done without citizen request. Planning Board Chair, Barry Jacobs responded that ~- the idea is to review the Land Use Plan every five years and this update had been to public hearing. Mr. Nichols continued expressing concern that such changes would degrade and make a difference in property values and asked the County Attorney how citizens would be compensated for decreasing property values. Geoff Gledhill, County Attorney, responded that in the Orange County Zoning Ordinance there is essentially no difference in the uses that are allowed on AR and R-1 designations. Mr. Nichols continued that there is a difference in the required frontage. He noted this would cause non-conformity. Gledhill continued that he felt this would not cause a difference in value lot-ta-lot. b. Z-2-88 Hillsborough Township Staff.,presentation was by Brad Torgan. The Hillsborough Township Plan, adopted July 5, 1988, made several changes in bath the Hillsborough Township Plan first adopted in 1981, and the Central Orange Area Study adopted in November 1983. These changes included the reclassification of an area west of Dimmocks Mill Road to the township line from Agricultural Residential to Rural Residential, changing an area adjacent to Highland Woods Subdivision -. from Agricultural Residential to Transition Area, and classifying the Little River Watershed, which drains into the Little River Reservoir in Durham County as a Water Supply Watershed. The boundaries of the ' ~ Upper Eno Watershed, as Well as the Water Quality Critical Area, both first identified in the 1981 plan, were redrawn based on more accurate topographical information. In addition to the changes in the plan, Duke Forest, first classified in the 1981 plan as a Public Interest Area, was reaffirmed as such in both the 19$3 study and the 1988 plan. One of the policies embodied in the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan is that commercial and industrial activity should be confined to activity nodes, generally focused on major intersections. When areas of the County were first zoned, the zoning category of Existing Commercial or Existing Industrial was used to designate those commercial or industrial uses outside of activity nodes. Several parcels, either on the south side of Old NC 10 or the west side of NC 86 south of Wildwood, were originally outside of adopted activity nodes. The boundaries of the nodes have since been changed to include these parcels. Based on that background, several proposals for rezoning are being made in order to bring the Orange County Zoning Atlas into conformance with the Orange County Comprehensive Plan.