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5 • Encourage Economic Development Commission to promote agriculture as an industry. • Support purchase of Development Rights Program. • Support construction of Rural Education Center. • Continue to initiate dialogue between developers with natural area sites and land conservancies. • Pursue cooperative Planning efforts with Hillsborough, Durham and Mebane. • Promote Grassroots Planning "Community vision" efforts in rural areas. • Pursue a region -wide vision of growth management plan. The RCS Development Options used a sliding scale of incentives (density) and open space, making both conventional and open -space development options available and offering incentives at both ends of development spectrum. Finally, it was made extremely clear that all of.the options were the choice of the property owner. The RCS Development Options were developed to increase incentives. The one -acre option was included at the end of the process by the Planning Board. Landowners were told that nothing would be taken away as a result of this process. Although it could still be done in a different way, there was a perception that the one -acre option was being removed, so the Planning Board reinstated it. In response to a question, David Stancil stated that the open space requirements have not been adopted by the Board of Commissioners. The Planning Board is currently working on them. David Yelton asked exactly how much and what type of development has occurred in this area. Stancil responded that staff had prepared data on activity county -side in the last 8 years. This information will be presented at a future meeting. Meg McKean asked staff to report on the rate and type of growth in Orange County in the last 10 years. She also requested that this information be presented so that the growth in Chapel Hill and Carrboro is clearly marked. The remainder of the presentation consisted of the Stoney Creek Small Area Plan Rural Character Design Scenario. The goals and objectives were reviewed along with the existing land use patterns in the area. A survey of the area was conducted using a suitability analysis to determine opportunities and constraints. This scenario in its entirety was a part of the agenda packet. A copy is in the permanent agenda file in the Clerk to the Board of Commissioner's office.