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village type developments. One advantage of this is that there can be clusters of dense development so that the environmentally sensitive areas can be preserved. She described some areas on a map. She pointed out prime and secondary conservation areas to be protected. She asked where else in the Northern Transition area could you have property that is more environmentally sensitive than this. She said that this is precisely the property that village mixed use zoning is designed to protect, by putting high-density development someplace else. She said that the importance of the stream buffers is enormous. She said that the developers will tell you that their storm water engineering systems will take care of all problems. She referred to recent history and said that we should be skeptical. She reminded the Board that the developers and the Town of Carrboro would not be responsible for the engineered solutions after they are built. The engineered solutions are not self-sustaining and the maintenance is the responsibility of the homeowner's association. She would hate to trust Bolin Creek to such a group. She asked the Board to please consider wisely where village mixed use zoning should go. If you mess up Bolin Creek with Winmore, it cannot be un-built. Rick Faith distributed a handout. He lives near Homestead and Rogers Roads in the Northern Transition Area. He asked if Winmore was really the village that Carrboro wants. He also asked if Winmore would be the village that Carrboro could be proud of in the years to come. He believes the answer to both of these questions is no based on density, walkability, and commercial viability. He said that downtown Carrboro is significantly less dense than what is planned for Winmore. He pointed out some places on a map. He said that the lot sizes were smaller than the requirement for Habitat for Humanity homes. He said that one rule of thumb for walkability is that people are willing to walk % mile. He said that there are not many people living within a % mile walking distance of Winmore's business area, and there are not many businesses within that % mile. He said that the people will have to drive a lot. He showed the flood plain of Bolin Creek. He strongly feels that Winmore will not fulfill the dreams of our community for a new village. It will not have the feel or the walkability of Carrboro or of Southern Village, and it possesses a difficult tradeoff between commercial viability and environmental responsibility. He urged the boards to reject Winmore at this time and wait for a proposal for a village that will meet expectations. Mark Gill is a resident of the Northern Transition area. He spoke about the storm water runoff of the proposed Winmore project. He gave a PowerPoint presentation. He spoke about heavy metal pollutants and said that there would be a heavy metal depository right next to Bolin Creek with lead, copper, zinc, and cadmium. Rich Kaufman lives in the Northern Transition area. He said that he sat beside someone on a plane who is the wife of someone who is on the board of directors of a large university. He spoke to her about this situation and she said that he was wasting his time and that the public meetings were only for show and that the agreements have already been made behind closed doors between the developer, the city, and the university. He hopes she is wrong. He went over a few facts. He said that the Northern Transition zone is in a water crisis. The schools in the Northern Transition zone are over capacity. He cannot understand why we are putting high density next to Bolin Creek. The university is five miles from the proposed high-density area of Winmore 1 and 2. He said that no one would be walking this far to the university. He said that the politicians in Carrboro were willing participants in the joint planning agreement. He said that these same politicians broke the agreement of joint planning and this is a breach of public trust. He said that by annexation, you have undermined the longstanding joint planning agreement and have rendered the Board of County Commissioners irrelevant in this process. He said that this is bad planning, bad politics, and a bad example for the community. He said that in order to protect the environment and the children (over capacity schools) we must maintain low-density zoning. Stephanie London is a resident of Northern Transition area. She said that zoning decisions are among those that most directly affect the quality of local residents' lives. It affects property taxes, road and school crowding, environmental issues, water supply, the value of property, etc. She said that the residents in Highlands and Camden are outside of both Carrboro and Chapel Hill. They do not get to vote for elected officials of either town. They do get to vote for the Board of County Commissioners. She urged the towns to keep the Board of County Commissioners in the loop for planning decisions for Winmore, including the right to vote on zoning. She said that Alderman Mike Dorosin recently disputed the notion that people we can vote for may be more interested in our concerns than the Board of