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Commissioner Jacobs asked what happened to the Adams Tract. John Link said that David Stancil has a commentary on the history of the Adams Tract for Monday night's work session Commissioner Jacobs said that he would wait. Commissioner Gordon would like to talk more about the school capital issues. Chair Brown would like to put the school capital issues on a work session and everyone agreed. John Link pointed out that the third item on the agenda for Monday night is "Fallow Upon Board Retreat." The school capital issues can be addressed at this time. Chair Brown asked about flipping the greenway money over to the purchase of the Adams Tract David Stancil said that Carrboro wants the County to defer the discussion of the funding of the Adams Tract until they can talk with the Board of County Commissioners. Comprehensive Plan & Unified Development Ordinance: This item was under tab 7. Craig Benedict made this presentation. The Comprehensive Plan Land Use Committee has been meeting since May 2002 and they have had six meetings. He made reference to the booklet, page 11, Growth/Challenges/Benefits of Tools, and he described each. He made reference to page three and read Growth Management Tools for Consideration. The CPLUC is ready to bring this information to the public for an open meeting by February 24tH and discuss some of the growth management tools with the general public. The decision the staff would like today or on February 4th is approval to put a public hearing ad in the paper, with the addition of this open public meeting. Commissioner Gordon said that she needs time to review this. She suggested a work session to help the Board understand this and not bring it out to the public too soon. Commissioner Jacobs said that there was an additional concern expressed by some of the members of CPLUC, that they wanted to be the ones to go out into the community instead of the staff because it would be an easier way to get the community to buy into it. He thinks this is something for the Board to decide. He does not oppose it, but he would like to hear the reasoning. The CPLUC could be invited to the work session. Commissioner Halkiotis gave a cautionary note and said that many well-intentioned efforts have gone up in flames because of the need to be rushed. He would like to hear both sides of the argument if there is a difference of opinion in who should make the presentation to the public. Chair Brown said that she feels that she has seen this plan a lot and it has not changed much since last year. She thought this Board agreed to the general principles. It is clear that this is going to take some rezoning. John Link agreed that the content has not changed much in the last few months. He made reference to page three and the first bullet, Reduced Residential Densities in Rural Areas. He asked if there has been any discussion on how to work with citizens in northern Orange on this subject when there is no requirement to do it. The last time the County downzoned was because of watershed protection. Chair Brown would like to have a meeting with the CPLUC and have them to be ambassadors in the communities.