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existing deficit will not be mitigated, however, common green spaces would be able to serve as neighborhood parks with adequate design and facility installation. The proposed community park would be able to serve the entire planning area. In the Neo- Traditional Design, three neighborhood parks would be provided. One of them would serve existing neighborhoods in the planning area and the others could be used by adjacent residents outside of the planning area. Public Safety: The need for additional public safety services provided by police, fire and rescue squad departments also increases with additional population. The three design scenarios envision between one thousand and seven thousand new residents upon buildout. As the Basin grows and develops, staff increases of public safety officers will be needed to maintain or improve current levels of service. Public safety services are provided entirely by Orange County and volunteer departments. However, as the population of the Basin increases, portions of the area may be annexed into Hillsborough while other areas will continue to remain unincorporated. This will split the responsibility for service provision among two separate jurisdictions. Therefore, service levels provided by both governments were examined in order to determine the impacts. It was determined that each scenario would require an increase in both sheriff's deputies and police officers. The impacts on Fire and Rescue Squad protection would be minimal except for the Neo- Traditional design. Water & Sewer: The undeveloped portions of the planning area could be served by extending Hillsborough's existing water infrastructure. Individual wells or community water systems are also viable supply mechanisms for residential uses. The Conventional and Density - Neutral alternatives would receive adequate water from Hillsborough. The Neo - Traditional alternative would require that Hillsborough purchase water from Durham until the new reservoir was completed. Sewage service could also be served by Hillsborough. Septic disposal must contend with the soil limitations which occur throughout the site. On -site testing would be required to ensure septic disposal conditions were adequate before residential development would be approved by the Health Department. The Conventional design would cause no significant impact if individual septic systems were utilized. The Density- Neutral would also cause no significant impact. However, design modifications could be necessary to ensure adequate disposal conditions exist. The Neo - traditional design would cause significant impact which could be mitigated by proper planning. It-was also pointed out that the extension of water and sewer infrastructure to the site could stimulate development on adjacent undeveloped or underdeveloped parcels by relieving existing development constraints created by lack of these services. FISCAL IMPACTS: Travis Pollack reported on the potential fiscal impacts of the three design scenarios. He indicated that the Service Standard Approach was used. This method determines the total number of additional employees, by service function, required as a result of the development. This approach uses average county government costs per person, average school costs per pupil, an employee to population ratio, and average operating expenses per employee for each service category (such as policy, education, etc). Then these average costs are weighed against per capita and per pupil revenues to project the total net fiscal impact of the development. Pollack reported that all