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I/ <br />Those communities were Durham, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Using this method they <br />arrived at an average travel time to each of the six facilities. He indicated that <br />they do have all of the exact times to each site from each community and he would be <br />happy to go over this information. <br />MR. CHRIS BEST asked how this matrix is different from the one presented at <br />public hearing? <br />MR. MCDOWELL stated that it is primarily different in that it is broken into two <br />different categories. One of those categories is Community Concerns and the other is <br />Engineering and Cost Concerns. We gave those equal rating and grouped them by <br />putting all like items together. He also indicated that the areas of Land Use and <br />Access were most heavily weighted. <br />CHAIRMAN CAREY asked to have the significance of the grand total figures and <br />relate those to cost and to the concerns the Commissioners voiced in the last <br />meeting, which resulted in including social, environmental and land use among the <br />criteria. <br />MR. MCDOWELL replied that those concerns were the reason they broke the matrix <br />apart. He indicated that they tried to develop two main criteria for review. One is <br />the environmental/community concerns and the other is the developmental, or <br />engineering and numbers, concerns. With regards to community concerns, the highest <br />total score is site 11. Under social and environmental concerns site 17 scored <br />relatively high. However, when you look at the breakdown it might not be a good <br />site. He stated that Site 11 was the best site foX community concerns. The best <br />Site from a development view was Site 9. However, he indicated that the cost <br />difference was not one of the most significant issues because it was only a 10~ <br />difference. He stated that you have to look at the overview of all categories to <br />pick the best site. <br />DAN EDDLEMAN asked when development concerns vs, community concerns would be <br />balanced. He stated that he could see that development concerns are off-setting land <br />use compatibility. He did not agree that they should have equal rating. He stated <br />that if the County decides to have an airport, they would want it to be in an area <br />compatible with Commercial/Industrial growth. The infrastructure impact would be <br />more compatible with a commercial-industrial use than with an agricultural or <br />rural/residential use. <br />CHAIRMAN CAREY stated that that concern was one of the reasons the Commissioners <br />ask that the category of land use and applicability to current and future land use <br />be included. The criteria as it has been applied gets at that. He asked the <br />consultants to explain haw it was applied. <br />MR. MCDOWELL indicated that they had three categories surrounding land use. He <br />stated that if the focus is on future land use that was planned to be <br />rural/residential it was simply non compatible. If it is agricultural/residential it <br />