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<br /> 656 Economic Development District was shrunk within the last 2 years and the Chapel Hill Economic
<br /> 657 Development District on 86 was shrunk in the last 2 years, and that is just indicative of what
<br /> 658 they're asking for. So, and I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with it, but I think it is important
<br /> 659 to highlight that the County is moving in that direction, so not making it a focal point but making it
<br /> 660 something that we do consider as we move forward, but then there's so much other land in the
<br /> 661 County that we should also be looking at for the varieties of use. And that would be my comment
<br /> 662 on that.
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<br /> 664 Adam Beeman: Dolores?
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<br /> 666 Dolores Bailey: Leigh Anne, there were two things you mentioned earlier. I wrote down mixed use business
<br /> 667 center. Do you remember where that was in there?
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<br /> 669 Leigh Anne King: I don't know about a mixed-use business center, there was a mixed use in alternative, No.4. The
<br /> 670 two higher intensity mixed use developments. We were kind of modeling a Southern Village-esque
<br /> 671 type development, one on 86 between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, kind of in the, now I'm
<br /> 672 forgetting the name of it.
<br /> 673
<br /> 674 Dolores Bailey: Blackwood Station.
<br /> 675
<br /> 676 Leigh Anne King: Thank you, Blackwood Station area, thank you. And then there was another one that was closer
<br /> 677 to Mebane,with the understanding,the reason they were located there is one,we were looking at
<br /> 678 places where there was enough acreage to support and also access, potential access to public
<br /> 679 utilities, so it needs to be kind of on the edge of a municipality to be able to feasibly extend
<br /> 680 utilities, because that level of development would not be able to be supported by a private system.
<br /> 681 So,that's what that reference to mixed-use development was.
<br /> 682 Dolores Bailey: Okay. And then the other thing you mentioned that you said you'd talk about,was the rural
<br /> 683 conservation neighborhoods. What are those?
<br /> 684
<br /> 685 Leigh Anne King: So, rural conservation neighborhoods—and I apologize; I thought there was a photo in here, but
<br /> 686 we don't have reference slides in here, do we?
<br /> 687
<br /> 688 Emily Gvino: We do at the very end, but I don't know if it has the rural conservation.
<br /> 689
<br /> 690 Leigh Anne King: Let me just look real quick and see if it's in here. We have a graphic. So, this is kind of an old
<br /> 691 concept unfortunately,we don't have a copy of it in here. So, rural conservation neighborhoods
<br /> 692 are effectively, if you can envision—and I'll explain what we modeled because I think that's most
<br /> 693 helpful. So, if you took a hundred-acre property in Orange County,what we modeled is that
<br /> 694 60 percent, so 60 acres out of the hundred,would be permanently protected through the deed as
<br /> 695 part of this development. And there is a flexible subdivision option currently in the LIDO that
<br /> 696 allows for this type of development. The requirements, I think, 33 percent open space protection.
<br /> 697 What we modeled was something more than that. We modeled 60 percent. And so,the idea is
<br /> 698 that you're picking the highest-quality environmental, agricultural,wildlife habitats such as the New
<br /> 699 Hope corridors and patches,watershed protection areas, as part of that 60 percent. You're
<br /> 700 protecting the prime lands that need protection. And on the other 40 acres,you are allowed to
<br /> 701 develop at a denser lot size. And we actually modeled a higher yield. So, if you took a traditional
<br /> 702 subdivision that would be developed effectively at one unit per acre in a portion of the County, so
<br /> 703 if you had a hundred-acre property, let's just assume you could get 100 units out of it, if of
<br /> 704 subdivided them all into an acre. It'd probably be a little less than that with infrastructure and
<br /> 705 whatnot, but for ease of numbers,we'll say 100 units. What we modeled for the rural conservation
<br /> 706 neighborhood, the 40 acres of that hundred-acre property, you could actually get more like
<br /> 707 160 units out of that development. So, it's an incentive to protect a lot of important,critical area in
<br /> 708 perpetuity, but get a higher yield on the part of the site that you are developing,to add to the
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