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Commissioner Gordon said that it is to be commended that 75°~ of the proposal is open <br />space. <br />Commissioner Brown said that the County Commissioners need to understand what kind <br />of property taxes will come from this development. Tony Waldrop said that they do <br />expect that there will be property taxes on the buildings, but not on the land. University <br />buildings would be exempt. Commissioner Brawn said that they would have to work out <br />something about that because this is a huge development and will have a lot of impacts. <br />5. Discussion of Plans for Twin Creeks (Moniese Nomp) <br />Environmental and Resource Conservation Director Dave Stancil said that there are <br />three things to discuss: <br />Carrboro wants a public comment on this project and this could be in August. <br />Page 5 of agenda -issues about the master plan and if there are revisions the <br />County Commissioners want to make. <br />The conditional use permit for the project for Carrboro. The staff can prepare the <br />application over the summer for a CUP for a possible phase one of the park. <br />Chair Jacobs said that they could get public input first. They could also solicit County <br />Commissioners' comments in writing and put it on the agenda as a special presentation. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis asked for the rationale for Carrboro needing additional public <br />input. Dave Stancil said that since Carrboro is going to be reviewing the CUP, they <br />would need to gather additional public input. The other reason is that they talked about <br />having a community info session for other residents around the park that have not been <br />heard. <br />Commissioner Gordon said that it has been a year since the work group finished, so it is <br />important to move the process along. She would like to start the CUP process with <br />Carrboro on phase 1. <br />Commissioner Gordon said that she would like to know about the educational campus <br />and the use of smart growth design. The campus would accommodate two schools. <br />Since she has heard some claims that the schools were not located using smart growth <br />principles, she would like to know which of the smart growth principles that the location <br />of the schools would be violating. <br />Commissioner Carey said that he thinks that if Carrboro is making a decision about this, <br />then the County should acknowledge it and have a public input session. He also thinks <br />that if there are going to be significant changes after the Board comments, then the <br />Board should know these before the public input session because the public may want <br />to input again. <br />Commissioner Brown said that she is interested in intertwining the educational facilities <br />and park facility for commonality of use. This did not happen at all because they are <br />totally separate. She said that they could give up on this principle or look at it again. <br />She is also concerned about the smart growth principles. <br />