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Bob: Market needs to be focused on areas around towns where water and sewer can be extended <br />Clint: Stoney Creek area serves as a buffer between Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, and Durham. Towns need to be <br />encouraged to allow higher density within their boundaries, maybe by buying easements in Stoney Creek area . <br />Bob: Right now all developers have to contend with when getting additional density around towns is cost of <br />extending water and sewer. Purchasing rights /easements adds a whole new dimension to things. Have to change <br />way of thinking. <br />Judd: When revising report, may suggest that County look at this on a larger scale so that receiving areas are <br />worked out. <br />Vleg: Thinks we should put in implementation report a recommendation on transfer of development rights (TDR). <br />Dan: FDO offers a lot, but doesn't offer it specific to a designated area. All we're saying is we're applying <br />FDO /TDR, but applying them in this specific area and County may want to look at larger application. <br />Lee: Thinks Judd is recommending a sentence at end that say we suggest other small area plans and County at -large <br />look at creating sending and receiving districts. <br />Dan: Would recommend it as part of cover letter to proposal. <br />Clint: Risk is that it could take County a long time to do. <br />Judd: Don't want to tie adoption of this (Stoney Creek recommendations) to that. <br />Item 5 <br />Gene: Quick overview of where bonus units can be used depending on amount of open space preserved. <br />Dan: Clarification on point raised at last meeting concerning open space preserved and bonus units allowed. <br />Gene/Lee: For each acre of qualifying open space preserved above the 33% minimum, an additional (bonus) <br />housing unit is allowed. <br />Gene: Clarification on question Bob asked at last meeting. Relationship is one additional unit for each acre of <br />qualifying open space preserved above the minimum regardless of the underlying zoning (two acre lot size in the <br />Little River watershed for example) in the area where open space is being preserved. <br />Bob: All land to be treated alike? <br />Gene: Anything defined as open space in the FDO. <br />Dan: FDO makes no distinction. <br />Gene: Reminder that for land to qualify as open space, it has to fit definition of primary or secondary conservation <br />areas in the FDO. <br />Curtis: Flood plain, low -lying land, steep slopes, and things like this that make land unusable for building on <br />qualify as conservation area. <br />Meg: Should all preserved land be treated as having equal value? <br />2 <br />