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• PAGE 11 j • 1 Mr. Collins agreed. Another change may occur when a water/sewer service area 2 with the various utility providers is established. There is a gap between what our 3 transition areas show and what the various utility providers indicate they would like 4 to see for their 20 year service areas. The point could be argued that the utility 5 ' providers should match up with the transition areas instead of the County extending 6 out to their proposed boundaries. At any time, an applicant may come into the office 7 ' and ask to have the Land Use Plan or the Comprehensive Plan amended. They may have 8 .- specific ideas in mind and things may have happened, like the adoption of the Master 5 Recreation and Parks Plan or.the issuance of a Natural Areas Inventory, and you begin 0 :..to see that perhaps an amendment like this may be okay. There are certain goals that 1 are Contained in the Comprehensive Plan that could be achieved if something like this - developed. What happens in the process is that all the work put into updating the . 3 . plan is wasted. As things change and new information is available it affects thinking 4 as well. 6 Commissioner Marshall indicated that she felt these wai not enough flexibility in 7 the Plan. The way the plan is proposed the people who have the resources to put 8 together a huge amount of acreage have an advantage. This then breaks down the 9 ' expectations that people have built up about the plan as well as the credibility of 0... the Board itself. Where water and sewer is available, development can be controlled 1 .. by way of the Land Use Plan. It is important to work out the meaning of integrity and 2.'• how to maintain it 3 - 4 Steve Yuhasz commented that he thought that to some extent the County failed to 6 Land Use anticipate properly the growth that will occur within Orange County at the time the Plan was: adopted:%.* This was pointed out at the time the Land Use Plan was '7: discussed. , Some of the, difficulrylin maintaining the integrity of the Land Use Plyn--.7 _V :.is`a result of adopting' i plan that is overly conservative initially. If a better job - 9 ? could be done in anticipating where the growth is going to occur and then include that in' a Land Use Plan,. the integrity would have a better chance of being maintained. • Chairman Carey pointed out that Collins mentioned changed circumstances in the . 3--" County rather than changed circumstances in that particular area and questioned the 4 .; intent of this statement. . • ' Collins . stated that there have been changing conditions in this area. This 7 . property has very little chance of continuing in its agricultural use. The property 8 does have some development limitations in terms of soils that are unsuited for septic 9 .. tanks. There is the presence of alluvial substandard soils in the flood plains and 0 along Stony Creek which limits the extent to which the property could be developed. 1 Collins stated he felt that sometimes too much emphasis is placed on whether or not conditions'have changed in a specific area, when sometimes there are larger issues to 3...nook at such as what is going on in the County as a whole which may justify a change. 4.2:1The Master Recreation and Parks Plan is a good example even though there is a specific site recommended here. The school and perhaps even the Environmental Impact Ordinance 6 that was discussed earlier would cause changing conditions. • • . - 8 Barry Jacobs asked if under the proposed Water and Sewer Policy an R-1 9 development would be allowed in this area, and if a water line passed by it, would he 0 be allowed to take advantage of the opportunity to tap into that line. 1 2 Collins answered that if there was a water and sewer line extended by this 3 . development to serve a public purpose, such as a school, or to an emergency situation, 4 . 5 6 7 3