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- '7 --, designated as Rural Residential on the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. The proposed amendment to the plan would reclassify these sites to the 10-Year Transition Plan category. This amendment would apply to the Chapel Hill Township component of the plan. QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND PLANNING BOARD COMMISSIONER WILLHOIT requested and Stancil sketched out the boundaries of the Hillsborough service district. COMMISSIONER MARSHALL stated she felt it ironic that the next item on the agenda is to update the overall view of the Zoning Ordinance and details the process followed in order to bring organized planning to this process. Long before the airport people made their feelings known, there was a planning process in place. None of these changing conditions had been brought forth in August. Any changing conditions would have had to take place since August of 1988. Most people have said that they have bought their houses and are where they are because they believe in the planning process that Orange County has put into place. There is a need for the people to have a part in.this process. These new plans were in the works by August of 1988 and if the feeling was that this should be transition, it should have been brought to the people at that time. She also indicated that she was interested in the water and sewer policy becoming a part of this document because the water and sewer policy also says that approval of new development should not take place until it is known that the services can be provided. Hillsborough has an ambitiously carved out water and sewer area but it has not been done in conjunction with Orange County which has not had any input. The question of whether the Land Use Plan or what a municipality would like to do should take priority has come up in the past. Both Mayor Sheffield of Hillsborough and Mayor Gulley of Durham gave promises that they understood that the Land Use Plan was of uppermost importance. This assumes that all the people who are making plans, if this is approved, will follow them out. If the Land Use Plan is changed, it is changed even if the plans it was changed for are never completed. She stated that this ad hoc planning is very disturbing. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPEN FOR PUBLIG COMMENTS. MS. GWEN GAGEL of Rigsbee Road stated that the 10 year transition would not help their community. People purchased their land with the belief that it would stay zoned as it is. MR. PHILLIP SCOTT, owner of the property in question, indicated that there is access to one of the parcels and negotiation is underway for access to the other. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. A motion was made by Commissioner Marshall, seconded by Chairman Carey, to refer this item to the Planning Board for a recommendation to come back to the Board no earlier than August 1, 1989. VOTE: UNANIMOUS b. LUP-8-89 Land Use Element Text (Section 2.0 county-Wide Profile/Section 3.0 Land Use Plan.) The presentation was made by David Stancil. In summary this item is to receive citizen comment on the proposed text amendments to the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. Specifically, the sections of the Land Use Element that this amendment would update are as follows: (1) Section 2.0, County Wide Profile, and L