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} • • • • 3 •t - - • Q$`' • the land use map not divide areas into two densities--e high or urban, and low, or suburban--hut leave all residential areas that are likely to be part of Carrboro in the future in one zone. The density in that zone--the transitional residential zone--will be determined on a case by case basis by applying the natural constraint system to each tract. • The Board also requested that a policy be adopted to allow relief from the natural constraint system for land within 500 feet of arterials. The Board's intention was to increase the density above the natural system limitation in this corridor in order to make masa transit feasible. - -• The Board is working with the understanding that they • - _ -.will have the ma3or responsibility for preparing the land use - ordinance amendments to effectuate any policy adopted. The Board has assumed that other policies in the existing ordinance would be applied, such as incentives for a mix of housing styles in developments, and for clustering. . • - - • _ • Rural Buffer The Board supported the concept of a greenbelt or -buffer around the transitional areas. The Board desired that the buffer be a meaningful one with very low densities developed with clustering so that one has a sense of substantial wooded areas. (The reference to tract in the Board's motion does not mean large minimum lot size, -such as one acre, but rather large presubdivision tract sizes, such as ten or twenty acres.) The Board concluded that one and two acre minimum lot sizes would not achieve a sense of separation of urban areas, which is what is ultimately being sought. The Board recommended that an inventory of lands in the rural buffer having aesthetic value or environmental sensitivity be prepared, and that those which are particularly pleasing or sensitive be preserved by the local governments. The Board considered purchase and TDRs as methods most likely to achieve preservation. The Board supported the classification of the Duke Forest lands as Resource Protection, understanding that the purpose of the classification is Conservation. Water and Sewer Extension • The Board recommended the continuation of the existing system of having developers pay for and construct their own water and sewer systems. The Board did not support extending water and sewer at public expense into neighboring areas to steer growth. However, they also indicated that they intend to reexamine this policy. The Board recommended that developers be allowed to have water and sewer. (forced mains) service in the watershed. The Board recommended that the public sector extend lines if neceaaary to alleviate septic system failures. The Board would probably support limiting newer service in the rural • • V - 2 -