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He asked that they not unfairly load that burden onto the backs of those people in the watershed with undeveloped land, thereby giving OWASA customers a free ride but to _ --~~~. meet this water quality challenge with a just and equitable-solution for all the citizens of Orange County without proposing a "taking of land". The Homebuilders Association encourages the Commissioners to review the alternative water quality proposals thoroughly before this drastic moratorium measure is taken. There are other . good ways to protect the water without imposing such inequities." He also stated that he understood there is an issue with respect to the tax base. That issue is that if all of the land is dawn-zoned into larger lots, he believed that the tax base would be appreciably eroded, and, therefore, if the same cost of government services were to be applied to a smaller tax base everyone's taxes would have to go up. CARL FTALTER5, a dairy farmer from North of Efland, stated that Duke University has been a good neighbor to Orange County, as has Duke Hospital. He does not believe that Duke should be zoned as a special interest district. He suggested that a special district tax be instituted if the citizens want that land to be rezoned as PID so that money can be generated to purchase that land. He stated that he fears that this will set a precedent which would allow this kind of rezoning to take place on other land in Orange County which is privately owned. He stated that he lives in the $ack Creek watershed. He believes that Alamance County will eventually ask far the same restrictions into their watershed. Any proposal used to limit growth in the watershed should use good reason and policies already proven. He suggested researching other alternatives to salve the problems of quality water. He mentioned that large acreage farms will eventually be impossible to own in Orange County if this current path continues. He indicated that the proposals he brought to the Commissioners were ignored and he believed that they were solid, indepth proposals. :. ~., BARRY SZOSTAK stated that equity on this issue was the only concern that he felt the Commissioners should be considering at this time. These property owners re:> should be allowed to develop their land. ALOIS CALLEMYN distributed a letter to the Commissioner which is incorporated herein by .reference and may be found an pages _ of these minutes and in the Permanent Agenda file in the Clerk's office. He spoke in opposition to these suggested interim development standards. ROY STROUD spoke in opposition to these interim development standards. ALLEN SPALT, a member of Protect Our Water, spoke in support of this proposal. He stated. that the concerns on both sides of this issue are real concerns. There are no people who will. suffer more from the degradation of the public water supply than the people who are least able to protect themselves. This is a much more complicated issue than land ownership, although land owners do have legitimate concerns which need to be addressed. It is possible that they need to be compensated but that compensation must came from us. He also pointed out that whenever a zoning decision is made, or D.O.T, builds a highway, changes in peoples land values are arbitrarily made. Most of the benefit of I-40 going through Orange County is being reaped by speculators who bought up the land. zf we want compensation, we could request it for both gains and losses. Much of the negative, angry feelings being expressed here tonight seem to be coming from the belief that people who support a proposal like this are not neighbors but rather people from an enemy camp. He agreed that some of the consultants that have been hired are probably not the appropriate ones. However, the consultants who did the OWASA study are not some foreigners. They are from the Triangle area. They were as surprised as anyone when they found that the