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Approved 3.2.22 167 Lamar Proctor: I would echo everyone's statements about broadband. I would like to the Planning Department and County to 168 reach out to the UNC School of Government, specifically their development finance initiative. They are doing good work 169 coordinating local government with investors, developers and community interaction to come up with economic projects. 1 170 want to add under climate change, I would ask you to think about ensuring public water availability because as climate change 171 kicks in we are going to have periods of flooding and periods of drought and so public water availability is going to be an 172 issue. And forestation and deforestation— I don't know what's in our regulations in terms of cutting down trees but we need to 173 stop clear cutting trees because that is exacerbating the problem of increased temperatures and destruction of ecosystems. 174 Also, I would be super hypercritical of any reduction of watershed protected areas in light of the new legislation from the state. 175 176 Craig Benedict: If there are rules that we can implement,that the state lets us implement,we will try to do that. 177 178 Lamar Proctor: We're coming to a critical phase where we need to develop these EDDs in different parts of the County but 1 179 want us to do it smartly. I don't think we need to rush, I think Orange County is the place to be and I don't want to see us end 180 up like Haw River where there is stuff built right up on the river and there is massive pollution into their waterways and it's a 181 mess between Haw River and Burlington you can see what happens when there's not good planning. 182 183 Carrie Fletcher: I'm hearing concerns about traffic due to lots being split and subdivisions being developed. What is being 184 done to control that impact on traffic due to the growth factor. 185 186 Craig Benedict: When we do some of the census data about where the populations are,we can come up with a map that 187 shows minor subdivisions and there are a lot of minor subdivisions—5 lots and less. That is what I think is occurring in some 188 of our rural areas. We'll make note of it and will show where this new subdivision growth is occurring. 189 190 MOTION BY Randy Marshall to ask staff to incorporate the results of the discussion into the annual report and work plan and 191 submit the form to the Clerk's Office. Seconded by Melissa Poole. 192 193 194 ROLLCALL VOTE: 195 Randy Marshall Yes 196 Statler Gilfillen Yes 197 Lamar Proctor Yes 198 Susan Hunter Yes 199 Carrie Fletcher Yes 200 Adam Beeman Yes 201 Melissa Poole Yes 202 Alexandra Allman Yes 203 Whitney Watson Yes 204 David Blankfard Yes 205 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 206 Kim Piracci left the meeting early, as noted in the body of the minutes. 207 208 209 AGENDA ITEM 9: ADJOURNMENT 210 Meeting was adjourned by consensus at 8:52 p.m. 211 212 213 David Blankfard, Chair