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60 Input from Community Meetings Community meetings to discuss the possible expansion of the Buckhorn Road EDD were held on March 12 and April 23, 1996. Notices of the meetings were sent to about 200 property owners. Twenty-seven citizens attended one or both meetings. A summary of their comments is attached. Most of the comments related to effects on the existing residential character, and the extension of water and sewer service. • Some of the group supported expansion of the EDD and the rezoning of their property. • Some of the group did not want to see any change to the residential character of the area, and indicated that they would support changing the Land Use Plan designation to allow only residential use. • , Others were not opposed to non-residential development, but wanted some assurance of when development would occur before rezoning the property. They did not want to lose the potential for residential development if it would be a long time before non-residential development would happen, • There was considerable discussion about water and sewer extension. Several believed that the County should extend water and sewer to the area in order to attract business. A summary of comments and questions from each meeting is attached. Water and Sewer Buckhorn Road is the approximate boundary between Haw Creek and Upper Eno Watersheds. The east side of Buckhorn Road is in the Upper Eno Watershed, and service by the Efland sewer system would maximize gravity flow. The area on the west side of Buckhorn Road would best be served by the Mebane sewer system for the same reason. Only the area on the east side of Buckhorn Road is proposed to be included in the EDD at this time. The possible inclusion of area on the west side of Buckhorn Road will be considered at a later public hearing, after coordination with the City of Mebane on cooperative planning issues. Inclusion of the area between the I-85 and West Ten in the EDD could result in more efficient and cost-effective sewer service. Four intermittent streams in the EDD on the north side of I-85 converge on the south side of I-85 near West Ten Road. If sewer service is provided only on the north side of I-85, then as many as four pump stations could be required to convey wastewater to a discharge point in a gravity section of the Efland sewer system. If sewer service is planned for both the north and south side, then gravity lines could carry wastewater from throughout the district to a single pump station in the vicinity of West Ten. A system which relies on gravity flow to the greatest possible extent, minimizing the number of pump stations needed, would be more cost effective, even considering that the gravity lines would need to be extended underneath I-85.