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Perdita Holtz continued presentation. 56 <br /> 57 <br />Tony Blake: Is there a distinction between wholesale and retail? 58 <br /> 59 <br />Perdita Holtz: Yes. 60 <br /> 61 <br />Tony Blake: Is there a reason why wholesale is not included in the retail section here? 62 <br /> 63 <br />Perdita Holtz: It’s not included in the retail section because wholesale is a completely different use type. The 64 <br />Hillsborough EDD uses what’s called NAICS numbers to classify uses, and that’s something that was done quite 65 <br />some time ago now. 66 <br /> 67 <br />Tony Blake: I was just wondering why wholesale was excluded from EDH-4 and 5. 68 <br /> 69 <br />Perdita Holtz: Wholesale is on page 38 of the packet, it is being proposed for EDH-5. 70 <br /> 71 <br />Perdita Holtz continued presentation. 72 <br /> 73 <br />Craig Benedict: Just to add on, one of the things mentioned earlier, a discussion that we planned to bring public 74 <br />water and sewer under the interstate and those monies for that come from Article 46 sales tax which is just allocated 75 <br />for economic development purposes. So, part of what we’re doing here is to set up a land use program for, primarily, 76 <br />non-residential uses so when we use the money for public water or sewer it matches that. We don’t want to spend 77 <br />economic development monies for tax base and jobs and have it turned to single family residential which, in some 78 <br />cases, the way the plan is now may allow that. We’re being a little bit more prescriptive, we know Hillsborough has 79 <br />recently approved some large residential projects within their jurisdiction so it’s not like we’re excluding residential, 80 <br />but in an area with interstate access and visibility we’re priming it for economic development uses. 81 <br /> 82 <br />Tony Blake: Is there a requirement for the property owners to connect to this water and sewer or is it just being kind 83 <br />of laid in there? 84 <br /> 85 <br />Craig Benedict: Yeah, it’s just going to be laid in there. We’re not going to touch every parcel that’s in there. We’re 86 <br />just going to get it under the interstate, which would take a developer a year and a half to two years and when we 87 <br />show a piece of property on the south side of the interstate they say, “Where’s the sewer?” and just getting it to the 88 <br />south side and having somebody be able to tie into that with their own sewer extension might take four to six months 89 <br />- the time it would take them to build the building. 90 <br /> 91 <br />Tony Blake: Are you planning when you wrote this sewer in to run fiber optics and stuff? 92 <br /> 93 <br />Craig Benedict: Presently not. 94 <br /> 95 <br />Lydia Wegman: And this is all outside of the rural buffer, right? 96 <br /> 97 <br />Perdita Holtz: Yes. It’s all within the primary service area for water and sewer. 98 <br /> 99 <br />Lydia Wegman: Is there a percentage like no more than 25% could be multi-family? 100 <br /> 101 <br />Perdita Holtz: Yes. 102 <br /> 103 <br />Perdita Holtz continued presentation. 104 <br /> 105 <br />Tony Blake: So that’s the plan, to extend the service road or come off of that service road somewhere? 106 <br /> 107 <br />Perdita Holtz: Yes, and likely improve the service road. 108 <br /> 109 <br />Tony Blake: Have you had any contact with the people around this area about the re-zoning? 110 <br /> 255