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Mr. Don Kuty, indicated that he was a member of the steering committee and participated in the facilitated process. He spoke about connector roads. Consensus was reached on prohibiting large developments from connecting through small developments. The current draft of the map has eliminated these connector roads and most of the text has removed reference to them. However, on page 78 a reference was left in the document. Mr. Roy Williford indicated that they intended to correct this to coincide with the other references in the Plan. JEF, a resident of the Calvander area, asked several questions. Mr. Williford responded that he was not able to say exactly how close to the 75% threshold Transition Area I was because it includes right-of- ways and other public utility easements. However, in general the figure is approximately 70%. Also, the plan which was accepted by Carrboro was written by the Facilitation Steering Committee. JEF then commented that he thinks the plan is moving in the right direction, but it still needs work. He referred back to the work of the Joint Land Use Planning Agreement from 15 years ago. One of their largest concerns was leapfrog development in the transition area. He wants to see that honored. He mentioned that when they were in the facilitated meeting they were not told that this plan abrogates the Transition Area I and II model. He believes in that model and he does not approve of this model. Those Ordinances should be incorporated within Carrboro as well as outside. He listed what he identified as six or more factual errors in this report. In particular, he noted Item 1.6 on page 58 pertaining to the creation of the business/office assembly areas. He felt that there were many inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the proposed plan. Carrboro Board of Alderman Gist pointed out that this is a Draft and those inaccuracies will be corrected prior to adoption. Mr. Stephen Dear, a resident of Stony Hill Road, agreed with JEF. He also pointed out that he, JEF and a group of residents of this area met recently and there was agreement among that group with the points that JEF has made. They do not think that the plan is ready for adoption. Ms. Carol-Ann Greenslade re-stated that she had been involved in this planning process from the beginning. She repeated that all decisions were made with the idea that there were two transitions areas. She is opposed to changing this portion of the plan. She also pointed out that she was opposed to having this zone be separate from the rest of the plan. She requested that the County remain the overseer of that area. She wanted to be reassured that the Ordinance would be considered for adoption by the Board of Commissioners. Attorney Mike Brough indicated that Carrboro would propose the adoption of the Ordinance and send the text to the Commissioners. If the County objects, then it would not be adopted until agreement was reached. That process has not been changed. The change that is being proposed is with respect to the floating zone concept. Presently, an amendment to the map can only be adopted by a joint public hearing of the Board of Aldermen and County Commissioners. This is proposing that this process would not be required of the floating zones. Once the concept is approved by the Board of Commissioners, Carrboro could act without the joint process for individual decisions on a particular portion of the property. There is a perception that the implementation of the floating zone is closer to an administrative process which is site specific. However, it is closer to the conditional use process which under the existing arrangement is already administered by Carrboro. It would still require a public hearing in the Carrboro area. Ms. Carolyn Miller, a Stony Hill resident, indicated that she participated in the facilitated meetings. She felt that it was a good plan but that it should be adopted at the same time that the ordinances were adopted. She was very opposed to this being adopted without the ordinance being adopted at the same time or before. She pointed out that there was supposed to be a 75 foot, undisturbed buffer between Stony Creek and Hogan Farm which was completly destroyed. There is no buffer left.