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Craig Benedict said that this plan is in two phases. The first phase is the master plan on jurisdictional issues. Phase two would be the different planning areas around Hillsborough and what would be the exact use. Summary - Stay Within Water Constraints - Define a Firm Service Area/Annexation Line - Minimize Residential Growth to the North - Adjust Land Use Plans - Execute Interlocal Agreement Commissioner Gordon asked if the Planning Board has looked at this and Craig Benedict said yes. At every meeting of the Planning Board, there are reports on the various advisory boards. Commissioner Carey asked same clarifying questions about the map with interlocal agreement recommendations and Craig Benedict answered. Judith Wegner asked what is the rationale for the urban service line within which occurs the likelihood of public water and sewer and are there characteristics of the central Orange rural buffer that would lead it not to be serviced by public water and sewer? Craig Benedict said that the urban service line is all that could be serviced by existing public water supplies that Hillsborough has at this point. There are a lot of critical watershed areas along the western portion -Upper Eno, Seven Mile Creek -and there are a lot of holdings of environmental lands to the south. These areas have less development potential and would be for lower density. Renee Price-Saunders asked about the possibility of increasing the capacity from 3 million gallons a day to 4.5 million gallons a day. Margaret Hauth said that the Town owns additional land around the existing West Fork reservoir, and if the spillway is raised, along with other improvements, the capacity can be increased. This is a capital expense that the Town has planned far. Commissioner Gordon asked clarifying questions about the urbanizing areas and Craig Benedict answered. I n general, the areas that will be developed first are the ones closer in to the urban area. Michelle Kempinski asked for clarification on what is coming back to the Planning Board. Craig Benedict said that tonight's item is the booklet with statistics, etc. and boundary lines. What will not be part of the determining factor in the next couple of months is land uses in the area. He said that the areas noted as Hillsborough Urbanizing and Orange County Urbanizing are also potential areas for transfer of development rights (TDR}. Several other clarifying questions were asked by the Planning Board members and answered by Craig Benedict. Commissioner Gordon made reference to phase 1 and 2 and said that she did not see anything about phases in the materials. Craig Benedict said that the abstract has a disclaimer that it is packaged less any specific land uses within the area. Phase 1 will be the boundaries of the different jurisdictions and who has planning authority over each one. Commissioner Gordon verified with Craig Benedict that the approval for this meeting is only conceptual approval of the boundaries. She would like the Planning Board to mull this over in a thorough way. Public Comment Chris Borst said that some of these boundary lines need tweaking, especially on the north side.