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APPROVED 4/6/16 acres a year to fulfill that need. But 273 acres in Chapel Hill or Carrboro is something 461 equal in size to Southern Village. 462 463 Patricia Roberts: I think Southern Village is 300. 464 465 Craig Benedict: And the 3 acres per unit, we did some minor subdivision analysis a few 466 years ago and even though the density might have been 1 per 2 on the average 467 because the soils was more near 3 and we haven’t done that recently but, it’s 3 or 4. 468 The 35 percent multi-family which was the assumption, even with that about how many 469 people would be there and how many acres you would need in an urban area, and I 470 did 5 units per acre and that’s probably a very small single family lot. Probably the net 471 acres would be up into a light townhouse density. But still 82 acres is a lot, plus the 472 273.. and that’s per year. And this is Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough, all that 473 stuff. Mebane has some room, it’s not all zoned yet. Hillsborough’s growing. But you 474 just see how these numbers are different to accommodate with available land area. 475 476 Tony Blake: On the previous slide that times 3 acres, that’s essentially what you’re 477 assuming is the carrying capacity of the land? 478 479 Craig Benedict: Yes. 480 481 Tony Blake: Yeah, these numbers make sense for the development that’s going out in 482 Pittsboro… 483 484 Craig Benedict continued to review abstract 485 486 Paul Guthrie: Are we paying close attention to what Chatham County is planning? I 487 think it’s going to put real pressure on the southern border of Orange County. All 488 the way across. 489 490 Craig Benedict: They’re (ie Chatham Park) going to try to do the jobs and living in the 491 same place but, we’re getting closer to Chatham County wants to talk again but, I don’t 492 know what type of change or coordination we could affect with Chatham. 493 494 495 Tony Blake: Well you know, they’re changing RTP as well. They’re starting to allow a 496 lot more residential in RTP and some real density. And that may very well mop up 497 some of this… 498 499 Craig Benedict: And why is it so important now? This is that million people that want to 500 come to the triangle in the next 20-30 years.. Where are they going to live, how are 501 you going to provide, how will it affect the quality of life? The biggest thing that hits us 502 first is traffic, there’s taxes, there’s other services, there’s quality of life, there’s all that 503 other aspects that’s all wrapped into here. But, you have to make changes based on 504 found data. Now, a lot of the money that we’re spending, whether it’s from sales or 505 transit tax is much based on the transportation needs. So if we get this and have an 506