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small area like Stoney Creek. <br />Bob Strayhorn: Density seems to be what we're interested in <br />without losing anything. A possible change could be to restrict <br />this to a sending area and not a receiving area. Of course, those <br />who might want higher density might not like it, but they wouldn't <br />be losing anything they have now. <br />Dan Teichman: So if someone owned a tract of land available for <br />subdividing, they could send and receive to themselves? <br />Bob Strayhorn: What I'm saying is you could sell and receive <br />inside the boundary, sell outside the boundary, but not bring in <br />from outside the boundary. <br />Lee Rafalow: Good idea, but doubtful on selling outside the area. <br />Dan Teichman: Are there numbers available on potential sending and <br />receiving areas in the Stoney Creek area? <br />Bob Strayhorn: Fear that making conservation easements mandatory <br />would take away tax advantages currently available (cited Bob <br />Nutter as farmer who has taken advantage of tax breaks for <br />conservation easements). <br />Lee Rafalow: Beginning to get into details. For example, my <br />proposal would not allow conventional one -acre lot development <br />( except f or f ive one-acre lots) ; that would of f ect appraised value. <br />Bob Strayhorn: Goes against our downzoning position. <br />Lee Rafalow: My recollection was that we were going to protect <br />property values and not change potential densities and at some <br />point that transformed into, "We're not going to do anything <br />different than we do today." <br />Bob Strayhorn: If you can prove that you can restrict density /what <br />you can do with a piece of land and make the value go up then... <br />Bob Hall: Can we focus on conservation easements? Assuming there <br />is some consensus that different parts of this area have different <br />intensities. Don't know if we nailed down consensus at last <br />meeting or not. <br />Gene Bell: Came mighty close. <br />Bob Hall: Assuming this is the goal, let's talk about pros /cons. <br />Dan Teichman: Curtis not here so I'll try to speak for him. He <br />didn't object to different intensities for different colors, he <br />just didn't like the color his property was in. Think we had <br />relative consensus that purpose of different colors was to have <br />different intensity /density levels. <br />0 <br />