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MAY-10-1994 14:47 FROM ORANGE CTY COMMISSIONERS TO PLANNING 10 7 1 Comprehensive Land Use Plan regarding open space needs to be handled by a 2 small area planning group. No amendment should occur until such a plan has 3 been completed. He mentioned that the Cooperative Sanctuary has stressed 4 environmental education aimed at the golf course management industry. This 5 program receives endorsement and financial support from the U.S. Golf 6 Association, Club Managers Association and the PGA Tour. The standards 7 established by the Cooperative Sanctuary program needs to be applied as the 8 minimum standards for all new golf course construction. A copy of his full 9 statement is in the permanent agenda file in the Clerks office. 10 11 John Hartwell made reference to when the water and sewer policy was 12 initially established. He pointed out that this policy was intended to 13 discourage the extension of water and sewer to other areas. At that time the 14 Board of Commissioners had reservations about whether water providers could 15 be prevented from allowing tap on's, even with stipulations, if the lines were 16 already in place. He suggested that the current prohibitions be maintained. 17 If cluster development is allowed in the rural buffer it will be necessary to 18 provide water and sewer. 19 20 Lester. Ray, an orange county dairy farmer, commented that his family 21 has farmed in the county for 7 generations. He spoke in opposition to the 22 open space category. The average age of the orange County dairy farmer in 60 23 years old. This indicates that much land will change hands in the next 10 24 years. Thera is not currently an option for preserving farm land. The 25 transfer of development rights and the purchase 'of development rights needs 26 to be studied and implemented in the county. 27 28 Bob Hall, an Orange County resident, spoke in opposition to this 29 amendment. The definition of Open Space is vague and must be more clearly 30 defined. He stated that the zoning districts being presented do not actually 31 apply to the University Station request. He indicated that some of the 32 language in the proposal uses words like "may" be rather than "shall or must" 33 be. This proposal offers incentives for heavy development in areas where that 34 type of development should not happen. He read from the Concept page (pq. 35 3.2) as follows. "To minimize existing energy efficient and land consuming 36 patterns of rural sprawl, the land use element is premised on two basic 37 strategies: Creating activity nodes and maximizing in-fill development. The 38 in-fill development is premised on the desirability of encouraging development 39 to occur first within the corporate limits of the town, then where 40 appropriate, within the areas surrounding the towns in the transition area 41 from rural to urban. "To achieve this goal requires a combination of 42 incentives and disincentives to development activity, which include but are 43 not limited to allowing higher densities and intensity of land use within the 44 urban and urbanizing areas and allowing only low intensity uses outside of 45 these areas. " In his opinion the county Commissioners have a legal basis to 46 reject this avAmidmont. A copy of his complete statement is in the permanent 47 agenda file in the ClerkFs office. 48 49 Genie Kamirues spoke about the addition of a land use element category 50 of Open Space Development Area. She feels that an open space development 51 plan must exist to protect the land. She asked that 508 buildable land be 52 protected as open space. The preservation of a wildlife corridor to link