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24 <br />Craig Benedict answered both questions by saying the primary or secondary conservation areas <br />will be available to the homeowners association participates with part ownership of that common <br />area. If this area is an environmental resources such as a stream buffer, in the homeowners <br />association document it would distinguish the difference. To answer the question about whether <br />we should dictate as to parts of the sites being accessible to the general public, how the open <br />space Program is designed should be available to all the homeowners in the subdivision and not <br />have it as an afterthought. There is a need for regulation to say don't separate your site by good <br />soil and bad soils and let that be the open space and subdivision design by setting some <br />percentages in what is primary and secondary open space. <br />Craufurd Goodwin did not see how that was connected. This deals only with the project lots not <br />with the general public. Secondly, if you want the developer to have a well thought out plan for <br />open space, that should be dealt with in the original presentation to the Planning Board. The <br />issue is `should the developer be required to make a certain portion of the lots have direct access <br />to that land'. <br />Craig Benedict stated that where there is a primary conservation area there were not as many <br />people, because you can't move the primary stream buffer. The secondary areas can be moved <br />throughout the site. Too often the visible lots were being clustered together with no open space <br />and looked crowded. <br />Jay Bryan would like to know if there is a Greenways Program in the County. <br />Craig Benedict answered there was not a specific Greenways Program. In the late 80s there was <br />discussion of a countywide system. That was a volatile subject and was not well received. <br />Jay Bryan asked i~ any of those newly identified areas on the map would be appropriate to do <br />greenways as opposed to the rural part of the County. <br />Craig Benedict answered that some of the regulations that discuss preserving conservation areas, <br />preserve them in some manner. The typical definition of greenways is open to the general <br />public. As part of our flexible development subdivisions we can preserve these green areas. <br />Jay Bryan commented that where the system is in place when the development comes, it affects <br />the development and the people who develop it or, it goes unnoticed that their land is part of it. <br />Craig Benedict said that in his opinion having something on a map that says greenway is the best <br />way to inform the general community and individuals who want to develop it. We will probably <br />talk about that issue in the next year and a have some of the Boards involved in parks and <br />recreation issues. <br />Howard McAdams expressed concerned that the Board is micromanaging the subdivision layout. <br />Craig Benedict noted the Mill Creek plan does achieve the goals of the new code. Some of the <br />access concerns in connecting the open space between Phase I and Phase II were achieved. <br />12 <br />