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D R A F T in the notification boundary they would be able to speak. I believe their notification radius is 500 feet from the property 448 which is the statutory requirement. Orange County doubles it and goes to 1,000 feet but at the bare minimum it’s 500 feet. 449 [staff note, in retrospect, the distance required by statute was stated incorrectly; state statutes do not require notifications 450 for subdivisions as statutes allow subdivisions to be approved administratively (no public notice required). In cases of 451 zoning changes, state statutes require that abutting property owners receive mailed notification; local regulations can 452 contain a larger notification boundary, as Orange County does.] 453 454 Carrie Fletcher: My concern, and I agree with Charity, is that just because technically we call it Orange County and our 455 concern is only with Orange County and we can move the well off Orange County so it’s not our problem; we are talking 456 about a development that concerns Orange County and Chatham County and my concern is with the people buying these 457 homes and making sure they have access to water and that the people around them also have access to water and you’re 458 not cutting off someone’s nose to spite your face just because it’s not our jurisdiction and that we would leave these people 459 high and dry. I agree with what Lucy said about how the aquifers are tapped because that is my problem on my property 460 is that I am going down among different layers of rock not into an aquifer. I was wondering if the developer could give us 461 some kind of preliminary water drilling information as was proposed. I would be very concerned about that and I would like 462 to feel more comfortable about not impacting water availability to neighborhoods nearby. 463 464 Charity Kirk: I’m willing to approve it moving forward on the condition that we get more information about the status of the 465 water. I’m willing to potentially have a well in Orange County as long as there’s information about the wells in that area 466 and the quality. 467 468 David Blankfard: What I’ve heard so far is we would like the developer to look at headlight beams for the entrance onto 469 Jones Ferry; a traffic study, and the well, water quality and quantity, for wells in this area. 470 471 Whitney Watson: The other thing was water conservation measures for the homes. 472 473 Lamar Proctor: I’m like, I’m on an Orange County Planning Board and I am bringing detriment to Orange County citizens 474 to increase traffic and water use with no benefit to Orange County. I don’t understand why I would vote for this. I don’t 475 have any incentive to vote for it. I just tell that to Mr. Mitchell, because I appreciate his candor but I want to be candid too. 476 I don’t see what Orange County benefits from this. 477 478 David Blankfard: Not to put words in your mouth but didn’t you say that they would be shopping in Carrboro? 479 480 Lamar Proctor: That’s not a direct benefit, that’s a potential benefit, some shopping but that comes with detriments. It 481 comes with increased traffic on Jones Ferry; it comes with increased population growth. As Chatham blows up, if Orange 482 doesn’t do anything and it’s just a wall of Chatham along the line, I don’t see how that benefits Orange County in any direct 483 way. Is the property going to be preserved as the rest of the 60 acres? Is there going to be something else, another 484 development with expensive homes that would provide a tax base? Yes, there is potential benefit of going to Carrboro and 485 spending money but once again, that’s going to benefit Carrboro, I don’t know that’s going to benefit Orange County. My 486 constituents are Orange County. I’m trying to look at it holistically but if there is no benefit and Orange County is not 487 getting anything out of it then I don’t have any incentive to vote for it. 488 489 Randy Marshall: My only comment is that Orange County is bordered by several different other counties and it is 490 incumbent upon us to be as considerate of developments on the other side of the county line as it is for them to be 491 considerate of Orange County developments so I think this is an implied sharing of responsibility when developments 492 cross county lines. I don’t think we need to be particularly selfish in terms of looking out for only Orange County because 493 there may be times when we want Chatham County or Durham County or Alamance County to give us some slack and 494 help us approve a development that we would like to have in our County. I am not necessarily in favor of going strictly by 495 what is in it for us. I think you could send it for Chatham to decide as many of the issues we brought up today are issues 496 that Chatham County has to deal with because a lot of those issues are not going to be part of the portion of Orange 497 County that being developed. 498 499 David Blankfard: I think it benefits Wendell Merritt who is an Orange County resident who going to sell this piece of 500 property and he gets to keep the rest of his property to do whatever he wants to do with it. 501 502 15