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• • JPA DRAFT MINUTES 4-].7-86 PAGE 3 more rural buffer characteristics are observed. He explained the transition areas where urban development is expected to occur. These are areas which can be served by gravity sewer systems. One goal was protection of the Duke Forest holdings. Collins noted there is pressure for higher density development on Erwin Road due to, development of commercial centers in Durham County and those being proposed in the Durham Comprehensive Plan so the Transition Area was extended to address this situation. Collins noted that with the comments heard at public hearing, citizens group meetings comments and, other meetings held after the public hearing, several revisions have been prepared. One of the major changes has to do with the extension of the rural buffer area. The primary reason for extending the buffer outward is to continue to follow the drainage divide of the New Hope Creek basin. Land uses in this area are resource protection areas, low density residential development and agricultural preservation areas. The New Hope Church Road/I-40 Interchange is to go back to a rural buffer type area. At Blackwood Station it is now being recommended to delete the office . type uses, some moderate expansion of the retail use already there which would leave Blackwood Station much as it is now. At the NC 86/1-40 Interchange, it is being recommended for office uses nearest the interchange and high density residential uses farther from the interchange due to traffic noise. Because of a pending development application as well as the current plan, it is recommended that an office park type arrangement be at Homestead Road and Rogers Road. This would place equal distance between major activity nodes. He stated another change in the revised plan was the combination of the two nodes in the Calvander area. In the plan presented on January 14, 1986, a commercial/in dustrial node was shown east of Calvander on Homestead Road. The rural neighborhood node at Calvander which was designated in the 1981 plan was retained as a separate node. These two nodes were separated by high density residential. In the revised plan the high density residential was replaced with office/institutional and the two nodes combined into one. The other change was a breakdown of the urban growth boundary into 10 and 20 year periods to be consistent with the existing Land Use Plan. He indicated on the map the areas where gravity sewer service could be extended easily. Collins noted that a number of inquiries have already been received about development around the I-40/NC 86 Interchange and a great deal of development activity is occurring out Erwin Road. The feeling of staffs and Boards was that development would be increasing in this . area within the next ten years. He stated that the boundary of the ten year transition west of NC 86 paralleled Homestead Road 500 ' to the north. He stated