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11. Affordable housing Agree: 5 Disagree: 3 Undecided: 2 No Response: 1 Comments: The most affordable housing is in town where you can walk to stores and schools and get mass transit, the country is not the most easy place to live cheaply; desirable, but not sure it can be enforced; not critical, our 6 square miles don't have to be everything; too ambiguous; every new rule area has to abide by drives up the initial investment to buyers; how determined; and too late for Stoney Creek area, land prices are too high to be affordable without subsidies. Additional Comments: Slow growth tends to be better managed and thought out than rapid growth. It might benefit us to concentrate on this one factor a bit. If larger tracts ( 50 or more acres) are limited in how quickly they can "build out" to "maximum capacity" (however we define that) - for example, a tract can only be built out to 50% capacity in 10 years; then 50% more in the next `10 years - then I believe we have a plan that allows flexible growth that will preserve open space and some rural character for 20 - 30+ years more. With this mailing of development options I feel we are on the verge of making great progress - I truly hope so. Transfer of development rights is a tool that can be useful. Most of the people that I talked to were appalled at this group's resistance to acknowledge the property owner's right to develop their lands, the trust to not destroy the community's values, and the idea that the ideals of native Orange County residents had some shortcoming in moral values as to the development of their lands.