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STONEY. CREED SMALL AREA PLAN NEWSLETTER <br />This is the first newsletter for the Stony Creek Basin Small Area plan. <br />Newsletters will follow each meeting of the StOney Creep Basin Planning Group. <br />They will be distributed by Planning Group members rePrOsOnting the various <br />stoney creek neighborhoods. <br />On Dccember 5 t 1994, the grange County Board of Commissioners <br />adopted the following charges "?o prepare a lam We ply, in Wing <br />recommm&dons for implementation,, for the Stoney Creek Basin P'lann' Area <br />southeast of the town �, f Hillsborough." To assist staff in preparation of the <br />plan, a Planning Group of neighborhood representatives plus elected and <br />appointed officials was appointed. Planning Group membership► currently stands <br />at 21 members with five neighborhood alternates. <br />W%CM We An <br />The first meeting of the Planning Group was held on March 16, 1995 <br />from 7 +30 - 10:00 PM at New Hope Elementary School. Attendance was <br />excellent with 20 Planning Group members and four alternates present. County <br />Commissioner, Dean willhoit welcomed everyone and made opening comments <br />about the project. Planner, Genc Bell then spoke briefly about the planning <br />press. He emphasized that two phases were envisioned for the plan. Phase <br />I, to be completed by late April, involves the work of UNC graduate students <br />who will produce three alternative plans (status quo, open space and neo- <br />traditional) for the area. Orange County Planning staff will produce a fourth <br />alternative (rural character). Phase II, which runs from May to December, will <br />involve serious deliberations by the Planning Group to review and analyze the <br />four alternative plans and determine desirable features to incorporate into a <br />recommended plan for the area. <br />The meeting was then turned over to Verla Insko, facilitator for the group. <br />Mrs. Insko is a forn'ter County Commissioner and now Director of the Center <br />for Peace Education. She asked each group member to list a concern, name, the <br />ground rule (from a list of 16 ground rules for effF ctive communication) they <br />,considered most important, and state what they Hoped the outcome of the project <br />6 'd ZODE��96I6 'OIL M ONINNUdAINIIOOHONUO Wd LSI HI 96 -U -M <br />