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043 JPA DRAFT MINUTES 4-17-86 PAGE 4 that the Planning Staffs of Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro felt that high density uses should be within 500' of an arterial to provide access, reduce the length of trips and reduce traffic through lower density areas. He indicated the remainder of the transition area lay in the Bolin Creek basin and stated that this area was being designated Twenty Year Transition. While this area has been experiencing some growth pressures, they were not as intense as in the Ten Year Transition areas. He mentioned the County's current land use policy of clustering development in transition areas to reduce urban sprawl and stated the policy would probably be carried over into Joint Planning. He mentioned that the Ten Year Transition Area would be the focus of current development proposals and that only after the area had begun to fill up would development be channeled toward the Twenty Year Transition areas. He mentioned one means of implementing phased development in the transition areas was through the formulation of a Water and Sewer policy. Roger Weldon, Chapel Hill Planning Director, began his presentation noting that the Chapel Hill Planning Board would be considering the revised plan at their April 29th meeting. Weldon noted that the Chapel Hill Planning Board's main set of concerns deals with the rural buffer. One of the recommendations of the Chapel Hill Planning Board was for low density, the highest to be one unit to two acres, with wells and septic tanks; no extension of water and sewer and no package plants. He continued that the Board supports mixed use at the interchanges and the areas where there is to be new development. There is strong support for the protection of the University Lake Watershed and also support for the I-40/New Hope Church Road Interchange being considered part of the rural buffer. These were the preliminary recommendations from the Chapel Hill Planning Board from the first draft of the plan and hopefully by the end of April will be sending their recommendations forward to the Chapel Hill Town Council. Andy Dobelstein, representing the Carrboro Planning Board, noted the recommendations sent to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen. The Planning Board did recommend that Carrboro join with Chapel Hill and Orange County in Joint Planning. He also noted that his Board gave consideration to the Calvander Industrial Node and recommended that the node be developed as a planned industrial development. He indicated that this meeting was his first awareness that the configuration of the node was going to be changed. He noted that there is lack of support or lack of agreement for the planning in that area from the residents. He continued stating that planned industrial development would have much better control than just industrial uses.