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APPROVED 4/6/16 Tony Blake: The centralized employment location is kind of going away and there’s 323 much more of a mobility attitude towards work and there’s a lot more work from 324 home. I see a difference generationally. 325 326 Paul Guthrie: I commute up here to these meetings. I come up Old 86, and Old 86 327 is a steady stream with few breaks at the hours coming up to this meeting, coming 328 from North of Hillsborough, or from the interstates. And in the morning it’s the 329 reverse. And 54 is the same wa y, and it will get more serious and less of a way to 330 involve the jobs closer to home. 331 332 Craig Benedict: Another thing that I mentioned that the previous model did not do, 333 when you get to the edge of the model there’s nothing left. So Alamance County was 334 not actually in the model. 335 336 Tony Blake: There’s such a thing as a platoon employment as well, where they work 337 12 or 24 hour shifts 3 days a week and then that allows them to live a lot further out. 338 But this begs a question; the rural buffer around Chapel Hill seems to me to be too 339 inflexible to allow to build some office space close enough for people to work and not 340 have to commute. So I was wondering if there was a way for Chapel Hill to grow 341 slightly and trade rural buffer like kind in certain areas for another area in the county 342 further out. If you developed 30 acres up along Old 86 or New 86 and was in the rural 343 buffer, could you take that same chunk of land somewhere and move it to the fringes 344 of the rural buffer and just allow the rural buffer to breathe? 345 346 Craig Benedict: Well, the whole concept of the rural buffer is an urban growth 347 boundary with a low density ring around it, so that there would be efficient use of the 348 expansion of the public resources and infrastructure in a confined area instead of 349 urban. This concept, the idea with these urban growth boundaries was to expand… 350 What’s happening with a UGB that’s institutionalized is the affordable housing 351 issues. The supply is so short, the demand’s still there, you get the cost of land and 352 therefore the cost of housing goes up. We’re doing some analysis now that shows 353 that if somebody pays $100,000 an acre, like one of the last subdivision that came 354 through off of Whitfield, right outside the rural buffer, the building program is they’re 355 going to charge 6 or 7 times that for the house. So you’re going to see a house up at 356 $600,000-$700,000 or more because that’s the way the formula works. They’re not 357 going to put $100,000 house on a… 358 359 Andrea Rohrbacher: Well, you could get a loan on it. The house value has to be 360 30/70 for the bank to give you a loan on it. 361 362 Paul Guthrie: The rural buffer was created on the European model. The European 363 model was to have a rural area designated of which you did not grow into. Well that 364 assumes declining or stabilized populations. We don’t have that. So, that’s what 365 makes it a difficult way to manage, and it causes some real problems. The one that.. 366 every time we’ve got the development in here who wants to put septic tanks in and to 367 work in some communities once upon a time where the biggest single health problem 368