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Approved 113107 oQ4 Sam Lasris asked about the difference between areas 3 and 4 and if area 4 would maybe get water and sewer extended someday and if area 3 would definitely get water and sewer extended. Craig Benedict said yes and that the water supplies available in the near future would be enough to service undeveloped areas in 1, 2, and 3. Another reason to have area 3 outside of the ED is that it may be a future transfer of development rights receiving area. Bernadette Pellisier asked how it was decided which areas went to whom. Craig Benedict said that there was a micro-scale analysis of the existing water lines and sewer systems with the consultant and the Town of Hillsborough to examine the most efficiently serviced areas. Brian Dobyns (?) made reference to the portion related to Hillsborough's boundaries and said that it looks very well planned out. He was stunned when he saw the rural buffer because he had no idea that a rural buffer was ever intended as part of this plan. He was unable to come to the November 20"' public hearing, but he looked at the draft minutes, and after the presentation, (and he read), "Commissioner Gordon asked if the Planning Board had looked at this, and Craig Benedict said yes, that at every meeting of the Planning Board there are reports on various advisory boards." He said that he then looked at the November 1" advisory board report from Craufurd Goodwin and it said that they met and reviewed the task force report and there will be one more public hearing. Later in the same minutes, on page 13, Craig Benedict says that the Hillsborough-Orange County Strategic Growth Committee did an elaborate study that will be presented on the 20th. He said that, in his reading of Commissioner Gordon's request, the Planning Board had looked at this more extensively. He asked if other members of the Planning Board felt this same way. Brian Dobyns made reference to the Executive Summary about the rural buffer, (and he read) "this area was formally identified as Town primary service area in the Water Sewer Management Plan Boundary Agreement." He said that this is not accurate, but only a portion of that area was part of Hillsborough's strategic service area. Much of the land to the west and some to the east of the Eno was not part of the primary service area. As a landowner within area 5c, he got a packet in the mail prior to the November 20th public hearing (four days prior). Only at that time did he have any idea that there was a rural buffer. He said that the speed at which this is moving forward is astounding to him. He questions the need for a rural buffer. He cannot possibly support this at the speed with which it is being requested. He also has questions about what would go past the rural buffer. Craig Benedict said that the discussion of the Hillsborough sphere of influence went beyond Hillsborough's primary service area. He said that Craufurd Goodwin has been on both task forces concerning Hillsborough, and he could attest that conversations happened over the last two years. Three of the lines had been discussed and agreed to as part of the Principles of Agreement. Brian Crawford said that he was never aware of these discussions. Craufurd Goodwin said that he thinks that all Commissioner Gordon was asking was if the meeting that they are having now happened yet, as the Planning Board. Jeff Schmitt said that he presumes that the Phase I context means that any of the lines are still proposals and are not definitive. Craig Benedict verified that the lines were conceptual. The intensities and densities have not been established yet. When the lines are defined, then there will be land use plan changes. 6