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M <br />Orange Water and Sewer Authority <br />400 Jones Ferry Road <br />OWASA P.O. Box 366 <br />Carrboro, NC 27510 <br />(919) 968 -4421 <br />COMMENTS TO A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING OF THE CARRBORO BOARD OF <br />ALDERMEN, CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL, AND ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF <br />COMMISSIONERS ON: <br />PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT AND JOINT <br />PLANNING AREA LAND USE PLAN REGARDING RURAL BUFFER <br />RECOMMENDATIONS OF ORANGE COUNTY'S RURAL CHARACTER STUDY <br />COMMITTEE <br />Phillips Junior High School <br />Chapel Hill, North Carolina <br />August 30, 1990 <br />Presented by Lois T. Herring, Chairman <br />Board of Directors <br />Good evening. My name is Lois Herring. I chair the Orange Water <br />and Sewer Authority Board of Directors, and am speaking tonight <br />on its behalf. <br />OWASA congratulates the Rural Character Study Committee for its <br />tireless work to build a consensus around a challenging set of <br />issues. We especially commend the Committee's educational <br />efforts of the past year to reach out and touch so many members <br />of the County's rural community. <br />OWASA's comments tonight do not address the issues of <br />agricultural, natural, or visual resource protection that <br />received much of the Committee's attention. Our comments are <br />directed at the water and sewer aspects of the proposed <br />amendments. <br />In short, OWASA believes that the recommendations for limited <br />extensions of public water and sewer service into portions of the <br />Rural Buffer may not be possible to implement. We think that <br />these issues should receive substantially more technical and <br />policy consideration before the Joint Planning documents are <br />amended. <br />The OWASA Board raises a number of questions that should probably <br />be addressed in further discussions by the Towns and County: <br />An Equal Opportunity Employer <br />