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Approved 12.1.21 113 growth. That concerns me not having any thoughts of potential restaurants, etc. We're going to limit ourselves the whole 114 way down the highway and they're just going to go to other counties to spend their money because we don't want to deal 115 with waste. 116 117 Lamar Proctor: Orange County doesn't have any water and sewer infrastructure anywhere close to this area. 118 119 Perdita Holtz: Orange County doesn't have water and sewer infrastructure at all. It's all with other entities, municipalities, 120 OWASA and Orange Alamance Water System in Efland. 121 122 Lamar Proctor: These 100+acres, if they are rezoned back to R-1, does there need to be a shift anywhere else. Is there 123 some master amount of acreage that needs to be a certain zone? 124 125 Perdita Holtz: No,the EDD districts that are affiliated with the Eno and Buckhorn Districts are 2 areas that do not actually 126 require non-residential to hook up to a public water and sewer system. 127 128 David Blankfard: Is it common that NC counties are not in the water and sewer business? 129 130 Perdita Holtz: It's more common than not. They can be but it's a very expensive endeavor. To build and maintain a 131 wastewater treatment plant is a lot of money, 10s and 10s of millions of dollars and then there's the upkeep. A lot of 132 permitting because of discharge into rivers and streams or you have to use spray irrigation. It's more common that 133 counties are in the water business where they have a water system but no sewer system. 134 135 Charity Kirk: It the area of the map (yellow)the area of higher density is that R-2? 136 137 Perdita Holtz: It is, that's Whispering Pines Subdivision and it's R-2 zoning and the difference is minimum lot sizes and 138 setback requirements,the list of uses is the same. R-1 is what the County Commissioners initiated and why the proposal 139 is for R-1. The lots in Whispering Pines subdivision are much smaller than any of the lots around and that is because of 140 the R-2 zoning. 141 142 Charity Kirk: If this is an economic development zone it makes more sense to encourage density. 143 144 Perdita Holtz: I believe the County Commissioners are acting as though they do not want it to be an economic 145 development area any more in areas 1 and 2 on this map. When they initiated the amendments they didn't give a reason 146 but from what I've been able to gather, it has to do with the lack of water and sewer and also wanting to have residential 147 where there is existing residential and not have conversion of those lots to other uses. 148 149 Charity Kirk: The Board of Commissioners seem to know that they want. The point of this is just to recommend that they 150 do it or not? 151 152 Perdita Holtz: Under statute, the Planning Board makes a recommendation on all Comprehensive Plan and Zoning 153 Amendments and so this is the prescribed process that has to happen. 154 155 Charity Kirk: Is there a reason we shouldn't recommend it to the R-2? 156 157 Perdita Holtz: The short answer is no. Also keep in mind the vast majority of these parcels in 37.7 acres and 74.5 acre 158 area already have houses on them. 159 160 Charity Kirk: So you don't suggest that would be a good idea because they're already developed and we don't want to 161 have to go through and review lot size with the existing owners. 162 163 Perdita Holtz: Correct. 164 165 Statler Gilfillen: At the core this is downzoning, if I were a property owner and would be more restricted of the use of my 166 property long-term, I might have comments or questions. Can you tell us the level of public response to this? 167