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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 DR:.AFT MINUTES Steve Yuhasz is a land surveyor and attorney in Hillsborough. He asked about the overall density of development in the undeveloped parts of Hillsborough that will populate this area. He verified that the plan would be to use water from existing reservoirs. He asked if there would be any plan to develop additional water supply reservoirs. Craig Benedict said that this plan would support Hillsborough's interest to stay within its reservoir ideas. Part of the area has to do with Orange-Alamance Water System and he does not know what it will do in the future. Margaret Hauth said that the density will be different in different areas. This will be decided in the second phase. Commissioner Gordon said that if there is consideration given to going beyond the 4.5 million gallons per day, then this would be putting pressure on the rural buffer. John Macaulay lives on Queen St. in Hillsborough. He is thrilled with the cooperative planning between Hillsborough and Orange County. He is concerned about what appears to be a disconnect between the statement of common goals. He has seen very little information about goals one and two. The first goal is to preserve and enhance the core area of Hillsborough. He said that one of the primary detriments to the quality of life in Hillsborough is the high volume of traffic on Churton Street. He found it interesting that one of the logical reasons for emphasizing residential growth to the south was the fact that this problem is not going to get solved. He said that the Town of Hillsborough and the County have the power to solve this problem and it is a shame that the strategic plan is being run on the inability to solve the problem. He is also concerned about residential development to the north because I-85 and I-40 are south of Hillsborough. If there is no residential in the north, industrial development will move up there and the traffic from there will have to drive through Hillsborough to get to the interstate. He said that this is a great deficiency in the plan. The second goal is to preserve significant cultural and natural resources. He said that he not seen a clear statement in the plan of a commitment to preservation of natural resources. He would like to see this plan aggressively set out natural resource areas. He said that this plan will sell Hillsborough out to suburbia and it will turn into Chapel Hill. Chair Jacobs said that part of the derivation of the interest in working together was halfway to preserve and the confusion that arose over where and how Hillsborough could serve the 50- yearcircle that surrounds it. He said that this is a good attempt to try and bring some order and predictability for the way in which Hillsborough will grow. Some of this, because it is in Hillsborough's jurisdictions, is not within the County's purview to discuss as part of the public hearing. He said that some of the items on the maps, such as the Durham Urban Growth Area, have been on the maps for 20 years, and some things are new, such as Carolina North. He said that he thinks that the plan is highly successful in preserving cultural and natural areas in ways that have not been done before. He said that this does mean that there are going to be no more water supply reservoirs built in Orange County. He said that this has been generally assumed without being explicitly stated. He said that he cannot see, as long as he is on the Board, that there will be any more water supply reservoirs. A motion was made by Commissioner Foushee, seconded by Commissioner Carey that the proposed Phase One (as defined above) recommendations be referred to the Planning Board for a recommendation to be returned to the County Board of Commissioners no sooner than December 12, 2006. VOTE: UNANIMOUS 3. Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments: Text Amendment to Section 6.23 entitled 'Extra Requirements for Watershed Protection Overlay Districts' to align the text with the Zoning Atlas boundaries for the Upper Eno Watershed.