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Patricia Roberts asked if changing all the areas with a 6 percent limitation to 12 percent was an option. 94 <br /> 95 <br />Adam Beeman asked if these areas are mostly built out and so the implication is likely to be an occasional shed 96 <br />added to the impervious surface. Michael Harvey answered the subdivisions are about 90 percent built out. 97 <br /> 98 <br />Alex Gregory said he thinks it is a good idea to not count the road for those subdivisions built before 1994. 99 <br /> 100 <br />Michael Harvey summarized that he is hearing from the Planning Board that they are interested in assisting people 101 <br />who live in subdivisions built before 1994 but want more options. And he is hearing that not everyone wants to zero 102 <br />out the road (remove the road from the impervious surface calculations). 103 <br /> 104 <br />Michael Harvey turned the committee’s attention to the transfer of impervious surface within a watershed rather than 105 <br />between adjacent parcels. 106 <br /> 107 <br />Paul Guthrie asked whether the county keeps track of these agreements. Michael Harvey answered that 108 <br />conservation easements are recorded with the Register of Deeds and the Planning Department can keep track. 109 <br /> 110 <br />Kim Piracci said she has lived in places with much stricter water protection and she does not have a problem with 111 <br />being strict about this. After all, it is water. 112 <br /> 113 <br />Patricia Roberts said she disagrees because 6 percent is so small. Putting up a small shed is not going to change the 114 <br />watershed. 115 <br /> 116 <br />Michael Harvey noted there are elected officials who share both viewpoints. 117 <br /> 118 <br />Kim Piracci said she does not have a problem with zeroing out the roadway. 119 <br /> 120 <br />David Blankfard said he has a problem with that proposal. 121 <br /> 122 <br />Alex Gregory said he likes the option of transferring impervious surface within the watershed. 123 <br /> 124 <br />This discussion wrapped up at 7:57 p.m. 125 <br /> 126 <br />Michael Harvey shared some updates: 127 <br />The Orange County Attorney’s office had supplied tweaks to the flag ordinance, stipulating that a flagpole can be 20 128 <br />feet from the property line and that the flag itself has a year to come into compliance but the flagpole is grandfathered 129 <br />in. 130 <br /> 131 <br />Public hearings were held the previous night on four UDO text amendments that the Planning Board had reviewed 132 <br />regarding mobile home parks and neighborhood information meetings. 133 <br /> 134 <br />Craig Benedict said the planning and community housing departments have been working together to create an 135 <br />affordable housing vision. He would like to create a workgroup of Planning Board members to work on this. There 136 <br />was then a brief discussion about affordable housing and the closing of mobile home parks in the Chapel Hill area 137 <br /> 8