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Approved 10/2/13 4 renovate a barn, they would not have a problem with that. I think how this topic resonates on the board and other 163 people. I want to address the sprinkler system, my home is sprinklered and it is real simple. I wish there was a 164 way to say if the house was more than 2,000 square feet, it had to be sprinkled. Under the Telecommunicating 165 section shall not be considered a home occupation, maybe we should be put in there that if you have employees 166 who telecommute, they are working for you but stay in their home, and they will not be considered employees on 167 site. The events per year limits, you need to be careful because if you had a time during the summer where every 168 Saturday 15 cars show up, that is starting to hit that impact limit. You could spread the impact of that over a period 169 of time. We did touch on the fact that the Orange County sign limit was much bigger than the Chapel Hill one so we 170 need to think about that. 171 172 Paul Guthrie: If the sprinkler does not pass the minimum requirements for the sprinkler system, you will not get a 173 permit. You need to have a separate unattached generator. 174 175 176 Agenda Item 8: Hillsborough/Orange County Central Orange Coordinated Area– To receive information 177 on the Central Orange Coordinated Area Land Use Plan and next steps. 178 Presenter: Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor 179 180 Tom Altieri: Reviewed abstract. 181 182 Tony Blake: Does zoning match the land use along here or is there effort to get that to happen? 183 184 Tom Altieri: In some cases it does and in others there may be an effort to make that happen. The town and county 185 need to come together on the joint land use plan and then the town needs to adopt its zoning classifications that 186 would correspond in the blue areas. Those would need to be acknowledged by Orange County and our Unified 187 Development Ordinance. 188 189 Paul Guthrie: You mentioned a couple of criteria that went into the thought pattern. One was the water supply and 190 the cost to serve development. How much did those two categories enter into the discussion as you cut up the 191 region between Hillsborough and the county and the second question was who was assuming the largest cost 192 burden. 193 194 Tom Altieri: In terms of water supply, the position of the town was they want to try to hold the line. You also asked 195 about the cost. 196 197 Craig Benedict: Any consideration of the development cost to the un-served areas in terms of how you negotiated 198 with Hillsborough. We looked at the existing lines and wanted to fill in those existing areas as far as water supply. 199 As far as sewer, there are sub basins that flow into the Eno so we looked at sewer sheds. What would be the ease 200 of extending sewer south? One other major consideration was transportation issues. 201 202 203 Paul Guthrie: How much did developed cost go into that discussion? 204 205 Craig Benedict: Hillsborough’s water sewer fund is very fragile. Their biggest water user went out of business 206 shortly after the new reservoir was put into service so that put a major strain on them. They will still need to expand 207 their reservoirs so they will not lose the permitting process they went through. It is managed around total water 208 capacity and an efficiently run sewer system. 209 210 James Lea: If the urban service area will not be expanded, what is the reason to go forward with Phase II of the 211 reservoir? And what will be the impact around the reservoir? 212 213 Craig Benedict: They think there are undeveloped properties that will need those water supplies. Hillsborough 214 purchased all the land around the Phase II during the previous permitting process. 215 216