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larger lots, and OWASA sewer requirements as keeping the price so inflated that ordinary families cannot afford to live there. Ms. Inna Deng asked for clarification regarding the possibility of sewer being provided for residents near the site of the current landfill. Chair Brown indicated that there were no plans to provide sewer to this site. There are proposals in the benefit package to address the need for water. That is in the process of discussion at the present time. Mr. Daniel Swartz, who lives across from this property, commented that the Chapel Hill Northwest Small Area Plan is a good one. If the plan is adopted, he wanted to know if current residential use would continue to be allowed. He was assured that residential uses are allowed in all zoning categories. Mayor Rosemary Waldorf thought that Ms. Deng was referring to a discussion and suggestions that were made several months ago. Those suggestions were not acted upon by the boards who had the authority to make a determination on this issue. There was a recommendation by a special committee that water be provided generally in that area. The current status is that the Town of Chapel Hill has recommended that water be provided as a community benefit to residents of the historical Rogers Road area. She thought that the County and Carrboro had agreed to that as well. Chapel Hill has not indicated that the provision of sewer should be provided as a community benefit because there is no connection between the operation of the landfill and the need for sewer. Sewer and additional water are public services that would come to those areas as part of the pattern of orderly growth as other development occurs. Mayor Mike Nelson indicated that Carrboro's position was basically as Mayor Waldorf stated with one exception. They are still willing to discuss the issue of sewer but that dialogue has not taken place with the other governing bodies. They have supported water for that area. Chair Brown agreed that water for the historic Rogers Road neighborhood is being considered. She does not have knowledge of any plans for extension of sewer into that area. Council member Evans stated that except for staff there are only two elected officials who worked on the original Chapel Hill Northwest Area Plan. She is one of them and even for her it was before she was an elected official. It was widely approved and she stated that there were more people participating in the Chapel Hill Northwest Area Plan then even participated in Carrboro's plan. She expressed frustration regarding its delay but has decided that something good could come out of this. She indicated that in the Land Use Committee for the Shaping Orange County's Future Task Force, and in other meetings, there is concern about preserving the Rural Buffer and preserving rural land. One of the things that could be added to this plan, if there is agreement, is a component for Transfer Of Development Rights to the Greene Tract which is already designated as higher density area. In this way we could work to preserve the Rural Buffer and/or land outside of the Rural Buffer. This could actually improve the plan. Amelia DeLoatch, a resident of Northwood Drive, asked what would be allowed in the Employment Campus. The Employment Campus, as it is described in the plan, describes a land use category that would be new to Chapel Hill's plan. It would include uses that would allow employees to stay at their work place for the duration of the day. It would include office and flex space uses as well as other supporting uses. Alderman Spalt stated that there is an opportunity for preserving the Rural Buffer as well as for enhancing it and possibly additional lands beyond the Rural Buffer. The time that it will take to work this out would mean that the Carrboro plan would have to be delayed by several years. He stated that there is not time for that. He hoped that there would be a way, after the plans are adopted and put into place, to explore the idea of Transfer of Development Rights in relation to the plans and the rezoning that will take place. He does not want to see the plans delayed but it is something that would be wise to explore.