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DR:.AFT MINUTES 4 ~; 1 Craig Benedict said that this plan is in two phases. The first phase is the master plan on 2 jurisdictional issues. Phase two would be the different planning areas around Hillsborough and 3 what would be the exact use. . 4 5 Summary 6 - ,Stay Within Water Constraints 7 - . Define a Firm Service Area/Annexation Line ' 8 - Minimize Residential Growth to the North 9 - Adjust Land Use Plans 10 - Execute Interlocal Agreement 11 12 13 Commissioner Gordon asked if the Planning Board has looked at this and Craig Benedict 14 said yes, that at every meeting of the Planning Board, there are reports on the various advisory 15 boards. 16 Commissioner Carey asked some clarifying .questions about the map with interlocal 17 agreement recommendations and Craig Benedict answered. 18 Judith Wegner asked about the characteristics of the land (could not hear her). Craig 19 Benedict repeated her question: What is the rationale for the urban service line within which 20 occurs the likelihood of public water and sewer and are there characteristics of the central Orange 21 rural buffer that would lead it not to be serviced by public water and sewer? He said that the 22 urban service line is all that could be serviced by existing public water supplies that Hillsborough 23 has at this point. There are a lot.of critical watershed. areas along the western portion -Upper 24 Eno, Seven Mile Creek -and there are a lot of holdings of environmental lands to the south. 25 These areas have less development potential and would be of lower density. 26 Renee Price-Saunders asked about the possibility of increasing the capacity from 3 million 27 gallons a day to 4.5 million gallons a day. Margaret Hauth said that the Town owns additional 28 land around the existing West Fork reservoir, and if the spillway is raised, along with other 29 improvements, the capacity can be increased. This is a capital expense that the Town has 30 planned for. 31 Commissioner Gordon asked clarifying questions about the urbanizing areas and Craig 32 Benedict answered. In general, the areas that will be developed first are the ones closer in to the 33 urban area. 34 Michelle Kempinski asked for clarification on what is coming back to the Planning Board. 35 Craig Benedict said that tonight's item is the booklet with statistics, etc. and boundary lines. What 36 will not be part of the determining factor in the next couple of months is land uses in the area. He 37 said that the areas noted as Hillsborough Urbanizing and Orange County Urbanizing are also 38 potential areas for transfer of development rights (TDR). 39 Several other clarifying questions were asked by the Planning Board members and 40 answered by Craig Benedict. 41 Commissioner Gordon made reference to phase 1 and 2 and said that she did not see 42 anything about phases in the rrraterials. Craig Benedict said that the abstract has a disclaimer 43 that it is packaged less any specific land uses within the area. Phase 1 will be.the boundaries of 44 the different jurisdictions and who has planning authority over each one. 45 Commissioner Gordon verified with Craig Benedict that the approval for this meeting is 46 only conceptual approval of the boundaries. She would like the Planning Board to mull this over 47 in a thorough way. 48 49 Public Comment 50 Chris Borst said that some of these boundary lines need tweaking, especially on the north 51 side.