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12 DRAFT 299 Marilyn Carter: That's great. 300 301 Amy Eckberg: That might be too ambitious, but I'd love to be able to get it done within that time period. 302 303 Statler Gilfillen: When you're dealing with the building code,the commercial code is a lot more stringent than the 304 residential code because the residential developers—this is an architect speaking - 305 306 Marilyn Carter: Excuse me, Statler. I had another question before— 307 308 Statler Gilfillen: Okay, I'm sorry. 309 310 Marilyn Carter: My second question just had to do with the list of the green areas that you had on the prior slide, 311 the green community focus areas. For those items that have been identified, I know that likely these will be 312 coming under the purview of the 2050 land use planning timeline as well. And just a generic question of when we 313 might see some of these come online in terms of the work of the planning board and changes to the land use plan 314 and the codes that govern some of those areas. There's guidelines and incentives for native plant landscaping 315 and some of the other items. 316 317 Cy Stober: Happy to answer this one, and I want to get back to one of your questions, Chair Beeman, as well, as 318 long as I have the mic. So let's go through these from bottom to top. Bottom will be a constant, perpetual, 319 decades-long effort and be integrated into everything that we do. Landscaping we've already done that. 320 Actually, Charity worked with staff to revise our entire landscaping guide, along with Marabeth Carr in the 321 Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Rec. So we now have a new landscaping guide that 322 prohibits all invasives and really prioritizes native and drought-resistant species. And then the other three, we 323 had two meetings about this to date, Perdita and I. 1 would expect that you're going to see a lot more about that 324 by the end of the year as part of the land use plan update, not as things coming forward to you, and part of the 325 updates that we provide to the planning board and the commissioners for feedback. And as we continue to move 326 forward, again, a reminder on the timeline, that is scheduled for adoption a year from this coming December, so 327 we still have another 18 months or so in that project. 328 329 Melissa Poole: To your question, Chair Beeman, about the net metering, so all those policies are really set by 330 the North Carolina Utilities Commission, and I think some of your colleagues can talk about how the efforts you 331 can make to try to lobby the Utilities Commission, but it's not a planning matter, per se, but it is a state board or 332 committee that basically says what Duke can and can't do, and then the legislation was written that ultimately 333 went through the Utilities Commission, and they rule on that. 334 335 Steve: And Duke has a lot of control over that process, too. Like they're big, big dogs in this state. 336 337 Adam Beeman: I know. Go ahead, Melissa. 338 339 Melissa Poole: I don't really have any questions. I just would like to follow up on a point Steve made,which is a 340 very good point, and I think Adam touched on this, regarding transportation. I recall looking—I can't remember if 341 it was y'all's website or the Hillsborough or Orange County website. One of our local websites lists out, in terms 342 of transportation in Orange County, over 80 percent of residents are single car drivers outside of the county, 343 every day. So in order to reduce transportation, at least in my mind, that is directly tied to economic 344 development. The idea that these things can't be done, this board actually is well positioned to assist in the 345 transportation issue when economic development initiatives come before the board outside of retail that pays 346 $12.00 an hour. That's pretty much all I have. 347