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comprehensive plan and incorporate those uses onto the county future land use map, there are <br /> state and county requirements to notify by first class mail. <br /> Commissioner Pelissier asked if it wasn't a little late by the second hearing, when people <br /> are actually notified by mail, to make any changes. She said she has some concerns about <br /> this. <br /> Town Commissioner Lloyd arrived at 7:18 PM. <br /> Tom Altieri said that step one, which is being worked on now, has included some <br /> notification and some community meetings and input. This first step is more germane to the <br /> town. The second piece relates to the broader white area. He said the attempt to break it up <br /> makes it more manageable and prevents an unnecessarily large scale mailing. <br /> Frank Clifton asked how much the white boundary would be changing. <br /> Margaret Hauth said it is a new boundary that has not existed before, but it is the same <br /> as it was when the agreement was adopted to start down this road five years ago. <br /> Frank Clifton asked about the specific impact on the people living in the white area as far <br /> as reviews, and approvals. <br /> Tom Altieri said it would be primarily the county and the town has no role in the white <br /> area. <br /> Frank Clifton asked about the notifications to the people in the white area and Tom <br /> Altieri said, in step two, there would be notifications in the white area with regard to any changes <br /> in land use or zoning. <br /> Frank Clifton noted that most of this area is rural and questioned how they would be <br /> notified. <br /> Tom Altieri said this process in general is outlined in the inter-local agreement between <br /> both boards. <br /> Craig Benedict said that the general understanding is that if this area does not remain <br /> rural around Hillsborough the impact of sprawl in that area would impact Hillsborough. He said <br /> that, if Orange County were to ever consider higher or lower density, the impact of the rural area <br /> is of common interest to Hillsborough, though not necessarily regulated by Hillsborough. <br /> Chair Jacobs said the white area on the map was at one point a fifty-year water and <br /> service area envisioned by Hillsborough and then recognized as not feasible. Margaret Hauth <br /> said not all of it, but a good portion of it. <br /> Chair Jacobs said this is vestige of older maps and older plans adjusted with a rural <br /> buffer to the south, watershed to the west and a differentiation between Durham and <br /> Hillsborough and the Eno River State Park to the east. This only left the north as an option for <br /> movement up. <br /> Frank Clifton said he wanted to make the point that many of these residents are quite a <br /> distance from Hillsborough proper. <br /> Commissioner Gordon said the key question is regarding what happens in the white <br /> area. She said the first step is to notify the people in the blue and orange areas, then it is stated <br /> that the people in the white area are to be notified if the zoning and land use are to be changed. <br /> She asked for clarification of what would change in the white area to necessitate notification. <br /> Tom Altieri gave an example, using the rural buffer, which has a zoning district that <br /> applies to it - "rural buffer". This enables the county to have a different residential zoning <br /> density in that area. He said the white area does not currently show up in the town's zoning, <br /> and if the county were to suggest that the density be different in the white areas, some zoning <br /> district would need to be created. This would be a re-zoning that would require property owners <br /> to be notified. <br /> Commissioner Gordon noted that this implies that the property owners might be affected <br /> in some way, which raises the question of whether they should be involved earlier in the <br /> process. <br />