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15 <br /> The CDM report did find that the water quality goal could be <br /> achieved through adopted land use plans and regulations (two-acre <br /> zoning) and the construction of a significant number of stormwater <br /> detention ponds. While the approach would provide for continued <br /> growth in the watershed, the high public and private costs <br /> associated with a system of 72 larger regional detention ponds or <br /> an indeterminant number of smaller individual-development- <br /> detention ponds and intensive on-going maintenance requirements <br /> were noted as disadvantages . In addition, there would be no way to <br /> convert back to a nonstructural control strategy if a structural <br /> program resulted in unsatisfactory watershed protection. <br /> [The proposed amendment incorporates descriptions of the basic <br /> strategies for protecting University Lake watershed as recommended <br /> by Camp, Dresser and McKee into the Joint Planning Area Land Use <br /> Plan. ] <br /> B. Amend Section V Joint Planning Operating Principles by deleting <br /> the following wording from the subsection entitled "Initial List <br /> . of Principles - University Lake Watershed" : <br /> NOTE: The Town of Carrboro supports low-density development in the <br /> watershed but proposes that it be accomplished through cluster <br /> development served by central water and sewer. <br /> [The existing wording is inconsistent with proposed restrictions <br /> regarding public water and sewer extensions into the watershed. ] <br /> C. Amend Section V Joint Planning Operating Principles by deleting <br /> the table which identifies the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan <br /> Categories and substituting the following: <br /> JOINT PLANNING AREA LAND USE PLAN CATEGORIES <br /> Major Land Use Plan <br /> Class Subclass Category <br /> Resource Protection <br /> Public-Private Open Space <br /> Suburban Residential <br /> Transition Urban Residential <br /> TRANSITION Transition I Office-Institutional <br /> Transition II Future UNC Development <br /> Retail Trade <br /> Light Industrial <br /> Disposal Use <br /> University Lake Watershed <br /> Resource Protection <br /> RURAL Public-Private Open Space <br /> Rural Buffer Agricultural <br /> CONSERVATION Rural Residential <br /> Retail Trade <br /> Extractive Use <br />