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130 Andy Dobelstein, representing the Carrboro Planning Board, outlined the recommendations sent to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen. The Planning Board did recommend that Carrboro join with Chapel Hill and Orange County in Joint Planning. The Board recommended that the Calvander Industrial Node be developed as a planned industrial development. There is lack of support and agreement for the planning in that area from the residents. Planned industrial development would have much better control than just industrial uses. He expressed concern for the protection of the rural buffer as open space. The Planning Board recommended that the rural buffer concept be developed in such a way as to provide for cluster housing which would make it possible to preserve the rural character and still allow residential development in the area. He asked that Duke Forest and UNC holdings be designated on the Land Use Map as conservation areas. The Board also recommended that water/sewer lines be permitted in the watershed with the justification that the watershed could be better protected by extending water/sewer lines into a watershed and controlling the development in the watershed by ordinance. (Copy of these recommendations are in the permanent agenda files located in the Clerk' s office. ) A statement was made by Pat Crawford representing Orange County Economic Development Commission. They are attached to these minutes. Kirk Pelland, Chair of Chapel Hill TAC, expressed support from the Chapel Hill TAC for Joint Planning. The unanimous recommendation is that the New Hope Church Road Interchange be designated as suitable for limited office/institutional use, but unsuitable for any type of industrial activity. He noted that a Ten and Twenty Year Transition area is suitable for more than residential use and the concerns expressed by the citizens seemed to focus on the industrial uses and the demands on water and water quality. The other recommendation from the TAC is that the County Planning Staff prepare for consideration a proposed description of lands which can be considered candidates for acquisition to form a system of recreation areas, parks and greenways. PUBLIC COMMENT Elizabeth Shoemaker, Calvander resident, presented the following statement: "I know that the Joint Planning Commission has worked very hard to plan the next twenty years for us for this area in order to benefit its citizens. You all deserve congratulations for this effort. I am sure that you have had your differences but the desire to cooperate instead of planning at cross purposes is clear. As a resident of Orange County for the past seventeen years, I thank you. However, when I wanted information about what was being planned for the Calvander node area in which I became a resident and homeowner last year, I found that the information I needed was in a hard to find box in the Carrboro Planning Department and it also cost $4. 00. I talked to other landowners in Calvander, many of whom were unaware of this plan, of this meeting and of what we are discussing here tonight. A few residents received maps in the mail, small and difficult to read. Many of us received no notice at all. I 'm aware that you are under no legal obligation to inform us of the plan. The