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<br /> 383 cover the additional area,which is pretty extensive. So,we're not there yet,we'll see how that
<br /> 384 goes. I had mentioned that the information that you've received tonight, our commissioners have
<br /> 385 seen, and so we know that there are varied opinions, even on our Board of County
<br /> 386 Commissioners about the alternatives in general and growth and so forth. But they have asked us
<br /> 387 to test the policies, and so that's what we're doing.
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<br /> 389 Whitney Watson: One follow-up question about the upcoming community engagement meetings. Both of these are
<br /> 390 on the western side of Orange County. The decision was made not to hold an engagement
<br /> 391 meeting in the eastern portion of Orange County?
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<br /> 393 Tom Altieri: I don't know that it was a conscious decision to avoid a particular area. There happened to be
<br /> 394 meeting facilities in these areas, and they're areas where we feel like there's going to be local
<br /> 395 interest, as there have been people,for example your last planning board meeting,where we had
<br /> 396 quite a number of people with familiarity with the area around White Cross and in the Dollar
<br /> 397 General that proceeded it. We have a third engagement window, and we'll look into moving these
<br /> 398 around, but when we find what works,we may have a tendency to go back. That's one thing,
<br /> 399 meeting with a few of the community leaders, that I've heard,which is, "Are you coming out here
<br /> 400 to see us once and then you're gone, or are you going to come back, Tom?" So that's a
<br /> 401 consideration as well, but really not a deliberate attempt to avoid any particular areas. We started,
<br /> 402 very early on, looking at census maps and demographics and trying to see where concentrations
<br /> 403 of populations were and how that aligned with where we have meeting spaces. I wish we had
<br /> 404 more meeting spaces, but we'll work with what we have. And we have noticed, again,we meet in
<br /> 405 county facilities and just invite people to come. That hasn't seemed to work,so we're trying to
<br /> 406 meet out in some different areas with partnering hosts.
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<br /> 408 Whitney Watson: Okay. Thank you.
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<br /> 410 Adam Beeman: Statler?
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<br /> 412 Statler GiIfillen: As an architect who's done a lot of planning, there seem to be three standards. There are four
<br /> 413 standards that I've developed, but there are three of them that are most common in the zoning,
<br /> 414 typically. One would be the isolated housing to the suburban development. The second would be
<br /> 415 the duplex to the row housing. The third would be the apartment to the high rise, each relying
<br /> 416 upon a density. The fourth one that is very difficult, often, in American zoning is based on a
<br /> 417 European village concept,which is kind of a mixture of a lot of things. If I'm reading what you're
<br /> 418 saying,what you're trying to promote here is actually might allow that European model to come in
<br /> 419 where you can have a clustered village,fairly tight density, mixed types of uses from tiny
<br /> 420 apartment to duplexes to single family, all within a clustered area,with open land guaranteed to be
<br /> 421 left around it. Am I right that this would be promoting that more?
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<br /> 423 Tom Altieri: I would say yes that concept is what we want to collect feedback on. Promoting, per se, not
<br /> 424 necessarily promoting any of the alternatives, but presenting them to collect input and feedback to
<br /> 425 guide the development of the draft plan.
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<br /> 427 Statler GiIfillen: Perhaps I can talk to you later about that. I may have some things that can be helpful.
<br /> 428
<br /> 429 Tom Altieri: Certainly.
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<br /> 431 Cy Stober: Well, on that point, I just want to make clear that the most constructive input you can have is
<br /> 432 commenting on the scenarios themselves, as planning board members, and providing that input
<br /> 433 on what you think either formally as a planning board member or as a member of,as a resident of
<br /> 434 the county. That's the most constructive way to guide this process. Please.
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<br /> 436 Charity Kirk: I have some tangential questions, because it seems like this is all about how we want to develop
<br /> 437 and grow the county,which is a little bit against the rural buffer idea and keeping things in the
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