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Lee: That is why I was careful to make sure exception clause was <br />added, so that whatever came out of this in terms of final wording <br />would have essence of exception clause in it. Intent here is to <br />preserve road frontage as natural open space where possible and <br />where it is not practical, it's not practical. <br />Curtis: Thinks landowner will perceive this as a loss. <br />Lee: Agreed intent of our group is to preserve rural character and <br />cutting down trees and planting grass isn't preserving rural <br />character. <br />Elio: When writing this up, would you add comments reflecting <br />Curtis' concerns. <br />Curtis: Would like for it to look like an incentive; right now <br />seems more of a disincentive. <br />Lee: Not intended to be either one, but a regulation, i.e., you've <br />got to preserve to the extent that you're able, the road frontage. <br />Curtis: His family owns two or three miles of road frontage and <br />will be directly impacted by regulation. <br />Lee: Understand and sensitive to your concerns. If you built an <br />open space option, this land could be part of the open space. <br />Elio: And where you would have high density probably, you would <br />not have any more rural character; maybe we should word this such <br />that where there is rural character this is where the 100 foot <br />buffer should be, but in the area where rural character does not <br />exist anymore, buffer would not apply. <br />Dan: Would be specific to yellow areas on map. Would not apply in <br />pumpkin and rust. <br />Lee: Actually way it is written applies to pumpkin and yellow; <br />could modify it to say it is just the yellow area and that pumpkin <br />is the existing 40 foot setback. <br />Elio: Curtis, is this more acceptable to you? <br />Curtis: Like it better. <br />Paragraph 7 <br />Lee: Intent here was to indicate this is the sending area for any <br />density shifts we want to do. This is the most restrictive of the <br />areas in terms of permitted uses. Whereas before there were <br />additions of mixed use and retail to higher intensity and slight <br />changes in intermediate, here suggesting that these two uses not be <br />allowed in the yellow zone. <br />11 <br />