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Bob Strayhorn: Bottom line; it's expensive to subdivide property. <br />Emily Cameron: Application fee for five lot minor subdivision is <br />$117, major subdivision is $350 plus five dollars per lot. <br />Verla Insko: So if process could be streamlined, it could save <br />landowner time and headaches and maybe make it more feasible to <br />develop as proposed in yellow or pumpkin land? <br />Emily Cameron: Would probably mean more to developer of large <br />tracts who have money tied up in options and loans. It may not be <br />as big an incentive to landowner who lives there and doesn't have <br />as much invested as developer. <br />Bob Strayhorn: Most of the time, landowner just sells land to <br />developer and someone else ends up getting most of the money the <br />families who owned land for many years should have received. <br />Emily Cameron: To help property owners understand FDO Planning <br />Department staff will be compiling maps of primary /secondary open <br />space and will give general assistance to people by showing them <br />what some options may be. <br />Lee Rafalow: So when we go back to the subcommittee, this is one <br />area we can address. I've heard Bob say that he does not like the <br />restrictiveness he (Lee) has proposed in yellow areas. Is that <br />consensus of group, that we should not be more restrictive in one <br />zone than another? <br />Meg McKean: If you're not more restrictive in yellow than rust, <br />then there is no yellow. Maybe compensation should be in the form <br />of a different array of incentives. <br />Bob Hall: We have to decide if this yellow area means something. <br />Bob Strayhorn: Would seem to me that it would mean that the <br />incentives that you would put into place in the yellow would be to <br />try to encourage the type of development you want ,to see there; not <br />saying you can't build this or that, but giving incentives to do <br />what is desired. Would have a different set of incentives in the <br />pumpkin and rust areas, but don't say that a person can't still put <br />a house on an acre of land if that is their choice. <br />Dan Teichman: In yellow area between NC 10 and I -85 could be 2.5 <br />units /acre based on FDO. <br />Lee Rafalow: Let's be clear about what our consensus was earlier; <br />this was not changing the value /rights based on current zoning, and <br />current zoning doesn't have 2.5 density bonus associated with it. <br />Dan Teichman: Agree, but if we ignore this (FDO) and it gets <br />approved then our assumption of current is FDO, so let's understand <br />E <br />