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1'7 Mayor Foy asked what LINO planned to submit to the Town and when it was planning to do so. Mr. Waldrop replied that UNC would revise the plan based on tonight's feedback and hoped to return to the Board of Trustees during the summer. After meeting with the Board, LJNC would come back to the Town with the overall draft master plan, he said. Mayor Foy asked if that would be a formal application that UNC would ask the Town to approve in one way or another. Mr. Waldrop indicated that was correct. Mayor Foy asked if that request for approval would come to the Council during the September-December 2004 time period. Mr. Waldrop replied that this was the plan, but he noted that things can change. Council Member Greene asked how that would correspond with the decision the Legislature would have to make before .January 2005 on whether or not the airport will remain open and for how long. She also asked if UNC intended to ask the Town Council to make decisions about land use on the area that is now the airport when they don't larow how long it will stay open. Mr. Waldrop clarified that LING would need to have a statement from the Legislature regarding the airport before they could come before the Council with a plan. He said that a Legislative Conunittee had been formed to begin discussing this issue, Mayor pro Lem Wiggins spoke in favor of an honest dialogue among the stakeholders before anything official was done. She pointed out that the process to make this a better plan would take much more time than that unless everyone stopped what they were doing and worked on it full time, Mr. Waldrop replied that the important next step would be to define the process for how conversations would begin and decide when LTNC would officially come before the Town.. Council Member Kleinschmidt stated that the plan presented tonight had not shown a transit-oriented development, He asked how the opportunity to discuss and develop that corresponded with UNC's rushed timeline in the face of the obstacles, Mr. Waldrop replied that it was important to agree immediately on moving forward with a transportation plan, Council Member Kleinschmidt remarked that there were tools available that would have allowed for a more transit-oriented development. It was not satisfying to hear that UNC had not developed a transportation plan because it had not been able to marshal the resources of the Town, he said. Council Member Kleinschmidt noted the UNC did not have the zoning authority to develop its plan, "but you go ahead and decide what you want to do. So what does it matter if you don't actually have your ducks in a row about financing of the transportation plan before you decide on what kind of transportation plan you think this development really needs?" Mr. Waldrop agreed that zoning would have to be iJNC's first step in engaging with the Town. He suggested not looking back but committing to working together and moving forward. Council Member Ward asked if it was correct that sometime before the end of the year UNC would come before the Council asking for approval of a master plan that looks somewhat like what they had seen so far. Mr. Waldrop replied that there would first be a zoning request and there would be changes in the plan. Council Member Ward