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3 1 recently, they have been looking at water quality issues. He thinks there has to 2 be a move to being more oriented toward storm water management. 3 4 Chair Jacobs asked about calculations on average lot size, excluding ten-acre 5 lots. Craig Benedict said that lot sizes are averaging 2.5 acres. The soils in 6 portions of the County are not good for septic systems, which is why those areas 7 are less dense. 8 9 Commissioner Brown made reference to the original goals and the idea of air 10 quality, traffic, groundwater, watershed protection and the cost of supplying 11 services. She said that on the other side, we are taking the Neuse River and not 12 using the State's highest recommendations, but using this mixture. She said that 13 these recommendations are probably the absolute minimum for watershed 14 protection. She asked if both could be done. She said that it seemed that the 15 staff was using the comments from the public meetings to make the 16 determination to modify these goals. She does not think there is a balance 17 because there are too many people in the County that want protection. She 18 thinks this is a very significant modification from the comments of these very 19 small groups of people. 20 21 John Link said that he encouraged Craig Benedict to provide the options and it is 22 not entirely based on the public meetings. 23 24 Commissioner Brown said that many of the people that attend the meetings have 25 no understanding of what the issues are. The public education piece is very 26 important. She said that a few people in the County (developers and a few 27 property owners) are very opposed to zoning or land use planning, and they tend 28 to drum up some very erroneous understandings about how this might impact 29 them, and they are the ones that come to the meetings. She will stand for the 30 people in the County that are very concerned about the water quality. Many of 31 these people will never come to public meetings. 32 33 Commissioner Gordon said that she does not think that the Board ever confirmed 34 the goals. She also could not figure out which set of goals in the packet the 35 Commissioners were to supposed to reconfirm. She asked for more clarity and 36 thoroughness. She would like to see the goals and the objectives of the goals 37 written out in full sentences. She would like to see a document that states all of 38 the goals, including the ones from the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Committee 39 (CPLUC). If goals have been deleted, she would like to know why. She made 40 reference to page nine and suggested saying "water resources protection" rather 41 than "watershed protection", because watershed does not bring up the issue of 42 groundwater. She asked that a list of all the goals and an explanation of any 43 deletions be prepared by staff and brought back to the Commissioners for 44 approval. She said that she is not ready to go forward with this. 45