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Mr. Collins agreed. Another change may occur when a water/sewer service area !with the various utility providers is established. There is a gap between what our transition areas show and what the various utility providers indicate they would like to see for their 20 year service areas. The point could be argued that the utility providers should match up with the transition areas instead of the County extending out to their proposed boundaries. At any time, an applicant may come into the office and ask to have the Land Use Plan or the Comprehensive Plan amended. They may have specific ideas in mind and things may have happened, like the adoption of the Master Recreation and Parks Plan or the issuance. of a Natural Areas Inventory, and you begin to see -that perhaps an amendment like this may be okay. There are certain goals that are contained in the Comprehensive Plan that could be achieved if something like this is developed. What happens in the process is that all the work put into updating the plan is wasted. As things change and new information is available it affects thinking as well. Commissioner Marshall indicated that she felt these was not enough flexibility in the Plan. The way the plan is proposed the people who have the resources to put together a huge amount of acreage have an advantage. This then breaks down the expectations that people have built up about the plan as well as the credibility of the Board itself. Where water and sewer is available, development can be controlled by way of the Land Use Plan. It is important to work out the meaning of integrity and how to maintain it. Steve Yuhasz commented that he thought that to some extent the County failed to anticipate properly the growth that will occur within Orange County at the time the Land Use Plan was adopted. This was pointed out at the time the Land Use Plan was ~i~.,.a discussed, Some of the difficulty in maintaining the integrity o£ the Land Use Plan '='~ is a result of adopting a plan that is overly conservative initially. If abetter job could be done in anticipating where the growth is going to occur and then include that data in a Land Use Plan, the integrity would have a better chance of being maintained. Chairman Carey pointed out that Gollins mentioned changed circumstances in the County rather than changed circumstances in that particular area and questioned the intent of this statement. Collins stated that there have been changing conditions in this area. This property has very little chance of continuing in its agricultural use. The property does have some development limitations in terms of soils that are unsuited for septic tanks. There is the presence of alluvial substandard sails in the flood plains and along Stony.Creek which limits the extent to which the property could be developed. Collins stated he felt that sometimes too much emphasis is placed on whether ar nat conditions have changed in a specific area, when sometimes there are larger issues to look at such as what is going on in the Caunty as a whole which may justify a change. The Master Recreation and Parks Plan is a good example even though there is a specific site recommended here. The school and perhaps even the Environmental Impact Ordinance that was discussed earlier would cause changing conditions. Barry Jacobs asked if under the proposed Water and Sewer Policy an R-1 development would be allowed in this area, and if a water line passed by it, would he be allowed to take advantage of the opportunity to tap into that line. Collins answered that if there was a water and sewer line extended by this development to serve a public purpose, such as a school, or to an emergency situation,