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091 "Planned Unit Development (PUD) has its clustering, ' a zoning technique that differs lfrom the normal t of Euclidean grid pattern in that buildings are grouped in certain areas, and the remaining lance is left open for other purposes." Rather than use Orange County's Planned Development ordinance to employ the true clustering essential to meeting the public needs underlying the PD tradeoff, Scotswood 's developers merely resubmitted a single-family subdivision proposed about six years ago, and attached a shopping center and multi-family area to it. This does not satisfy the intent of the ordinance. . . .more efficient use of energy.. . Although the energy shortage has faded from public consciousness, the need for conservation of resources has not lessened. The inefficient use of land, necessitating more extensive roads and driveways and curbs and gutters and sidewalks means the inefficient use of energy and other resources. ...reduction of the costs of continuing maintenance responsibilities... Scotswood serves to increase, rather than reduce, continuing public costs that will directly result from the development., These include an increase in the level of sheriff's patrols until such time as Hillsborough annexes the development, as Sheriff Pendergrass noted; intensified fire protection requirements; a strain on an already-crowded school system, as several citizens pointed out at the November 25, 1985 public hearing; pressure on a clearly stressed Hillsborough water system that makes imperative further public expenditures to provide reservoirs and wastewater treatment facilities. In his memorandum of January 6, 1986, Marvin Collins, Orange County's Planning Director, notes that under current circumstances "it is impossible for the Planning Staff to make an objective evaluation of the impact of Scotswood or other developments" on the county's and Hillsborough's water supply. The director further states that as-yet unanswered policy questions regarding that water supply must be addressed even "in order to be able to develop staging plans for new developments." Under the circumstances it would be foolhardy to commit limited resources toIScotswood. Meanwhile, despite all the costs and problems to be generated byithe project, the developers offer nothing to help the community; at-large, either in funds to ameliorate impacts or land for thelsiting of additional needed public facilities. (See also 7.4.2 ) To the contrary, the developers have responded in a less than satisfactory fashion to concerns such as those raised by the county's Recreation Advisory Council. After hearing an analysis at the November hearing that found the active recreation area at Scotswood to be too small and poorly located, the developers obligingly moved the recreation space to a better site, then virtually negated this improvement by actually decreasing the already-minimal proposed park area from 7 to 5 acres.