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r. 1 • [ MEMORANDUM t To: Hoard of County Commissioners From: Alice Gordon MAC- , I Subject: Joint Planning Project Questionnaire Date: November 19, 1985 Attached is a summary of the responses to the questionnaires which I were retoreed at the end of the Joint Planning Project Public Forum an November 13, 1985. A total of 51 questionnaires were returned of which 43 were from the planning area. Those 43 were scored by Alice Ingram and Alice Gordon, andit is a summary of those 43 questionnaires which is attached_ Additional questionnaires returned later will be scored soon. In the summary you will find the following information far each possible answer to a question: the total number of people from the planning area who chose that response (on the line for the answer) plus the sub-totals for each of the three major categories of respondents in the following order: Chapel Hill (Town), CH: ETA (Chapel Hill's Extraterritorial Area),and JPA (the Joint planning Area which is outside the ETA but within the JPA boundary). The latter information will be found near the total, usually to one side. For example, in!questian number 2 about the rural buffer, 36 people from the 4 planning area thought that there should be a permanent rural buffer. Of those, Ili were from the Town of Chapel Hill, 6 were from Chapel Hill's ETA, and 12 ware from the Joint Planning Area. These sub-totals are helpful because they can show differing patterns of response from the different areas. For example, in question 19 about changes in residential land use, a majority thought that affected property owners should have a major voice in deciding changes. That opinion was'even stronger in the JPA as shown by the fact that every single person from the Joint Planning Area chose that response. Although I have not had time to study the results of the questionnaire, i can nevertheless say a few things about the responses at this point. It generally appears that the citizens from the planning area who responded agree on the 1 ' following issues. They generally believe there should be a permanent rural buffer around Chapel Hill, that environmental constraints should be used to restrict building in some cases, that there are problems with water resources and septic tank systems,and that they would protect potential reservoir sites in the same manner as existing reservoirs. They tend to believe that water and $ sewer extension should direct development, that there are problems with the road systemjin the area,and that neighborhood preservation is more important than transportation efficiency. They tend to agree that population projections show too much growth, that the maximum density for the lowest density • • residential areas should be i-2 units per acre, and that changes in residential land use should be made by a majority vote of the governing body but only after signatures of a majority of the affected property owners have been obtained. They also believe that once commercial areas are designated those commercial uses should be limited to those particular areas for 10-20 years. (These responses tend to indicate that these citizens wish to have a great deal of stability in the land use plan and zoning regulations.) They agree strongly that a system of recreational areas and parks should be designated in the area. They suggest a number of uses for the 1-40 interchanges, but the ones with the highest number of responses were commercial uses and office/institutional uses. Finally, the respondents were primarily homeowners who live in single family dwellings. 1