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E. ill <br />Home Builders Associat <br />20 N! Colony Place + Suire 780 • pu; ham, Nwr <br />Mr. Moses Carey, Jr,, <br />Orange County Board of <br />Post Office Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Dear Mr. Carey: <br />Chair <br />Commissioners <br />*t r <br />F A A $ r * * *rt * +t *t rr <br />,r+ <br />^� <br />TO:_ <br />DEPT, <br />FM it <br />rROM.1, � r� <br />CO: FAX <br />Post•It'r':ind fax [a171114r91- memo 7671 <br />January 28, 1991 ... <br />Thank you very much for your letter of January 11 <br />1991. We <br />concerning <br />are the <br />interesteduinythislmatter initiatives for <br />represented by Mr, Larry arroll, co- chairdofrOurbOrange <br />County Legislative ComM -ttee at the hearing On Thursday. <br />DENSITY BONUSES: y <br />Our reaction to the concept of density <br />great! A Voluntar ra ram that allows a eveloper is apply <br />his own creativity and to receive an appropriate to <br />be very beneficial to efforts to provi aable reward uusing <br />RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: g� <br />undThe redefinition of recreational service areas is <br />erstandethedbenefitptottheaptrivatee. We further <br />of this public service, our support osec this or of the provision <br />conditioned on being allowed to actively proposal is <br />ordinance drafting process that must toilow. Specificall�e <br />We find that part1czpation at the public hearing stage is <br />often too late in the process to allow adequate alternative proposals, analysis of <br />representative of the HsA and we would request be included nthettaskaforce that <br />sets Out to write these rules. <br />AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE LAND: <br />The proposal that the County be authorized to buy land <br />for, amonr� other reasons, protection of the watershed is <br />PO zn the sense that it proposes expending public funds <br />for a public purpose. On the other hand, the funds to be <br />expended will be raised from an entirely different group than <br />the group that receives the benefit. The County should <br />assist in the designation of areas where public ownership of <br />land is beneficial to the quality of the water supply and <br />facilitate the purchase of that land at fair market value by <br />OWASA. A review of the tax roll will reveal that one of the <br />if not the -- major users of OWASA does not <br />Property taxes that would be used to help pay any the <br />fund this proro gram. <br />FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMUNITY SEWER SYSTEMS: <br />Any progress in allowing alternative methods of sewage <br />treatment is applauded and the imposition of a requirement to <br />�' <br />M E M o <br />rl <br />NO. PAGES <br />PAGES <br />