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PAGE 12 d - - - - - - - - • 1 (subdivision with failing septic tanks), then this particular site could access a 2 public water and sewer line and maintain a density of one unit to the acre. 3 4 Jacobs stated that it would therefore not necessitate a higher density in order 5 to make available water and sewer: Collins agreed that it would not. The assumption 6 is that public water and sewer would be extended by this development for one of those 7 two purposes stated above.' 8 - - 9 Jacobs asked how the limits of this transition area were being defined stating 10 that already the adjacent property owner to the east has made it known that he would 11 like to change to a transition area. Jacobs asked how far the transition area along . • • :2 Old Highway 10 would be extended. • „ 3 _ „ . • .. . . 4 Collins stated that the railroad. spur that comes off the Southern Railroad and 5 runs down to Chapel Hill might be an appropriate dividing line. To the southeast is 6 existing residential development. .7 '8 Jacobs indicated that that'was at one unit per acre. He asked if conditions 9 change would other properties have an opportunity to change their Land Use designation _0 . and Collins stated that they would always have the option of making that request. _1 :2 3 ' : Jacobs asked when property is sold in this transition area if the new owner could request any zoning density from two units per acre to 13 units per acre.- Collins :4 -agreed with that statement. • 5 . _ • Commissioner Willhoit commented that the R-1 classification has to do with a lack of availability' of water and Sewer and' that water and sewer services' are.not expected 9: within the 10.to. 20-year' time.frame:...7 Therefore, one unit per acre becomes the density', ' -.. critetion because that is what is required in the absence of water andsewer... Be .0- stated• thatas water and sewer is extended and therefore becomes available it would . • l 'fseeti- to bei. candidate for. change becauie one of the basic criterion then of R1 no • ' , 2 . longer seems that the more basic question of how fax you go and at what 3 '. speed' has-to do' with the ability to provide urban services. The availability of water 4 "and' sewer should not be the only criteria that is used in making these decisions. One 5 • of the things that is of concern here is that the logical growth meet the land use 6 plan as it relates to the availability of urban type services. 7.. • .: --• •. '• • 8 : : In answer to a question about the placing of a sewer line so that it will not 9 disturb the wildlife trail, Collins indicated that the creek bisects the property in a 0 southwest-northeast direction. The property falls on both sides toward the creek. 1 One way to install the sewer lines and avoid the wildlife corridor is to have parallel 2 systems which would parallel both' sides of the creek, the wildlife corridor and the 3 development on either side flowing into it. Another way is to have the sewer lines 4 further away from the wildlife corridor.- This would depend on the layout of the 5 " roads. If the roads follow the natural fall of the land, the sewer lines could do 6 likewise. - - _ Jacobs asked what the minimum requirement would be and Collins stated that there was none and that it presently could not be required. The inventory just recommends 0 that a minimum requirement be considered but there is no provision in the ordinance to 1 require it. 2 3 In answer to a question from Commissioner Villhoit about water and sewer and the 4 designation of transition areas, Collins stated that one way is to say this looks good • 6 7 3