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20 1 not have to drive so far to get to their daily needs. She said that is one way to reduce vehicle 2 miles traveled. 3 4 Chair Bedford said the Board liked the Rural Conservation Neighborhood, yet in a recent 5 board action they voted against a development that would fit in with this kind of neighborhood. 6 She said she is not sure she would like to see this kind of density all over the county. She asked 7 about having them closer to the towns rather than scattered about the county. She said it seems 8 like a different kind of sprawl. 9 Leigh Anne King said some communities have figured out how to live with working lands 10 nearby. She said there is a neighborhood conservation district in Chicago that has working 11 prairie, but she also agrees with Commissioner McKee that it may not be feasible to actively 12 farmland around a subdivision. She said there is site design and management to have residents 13 near working lands. She said there is a lot of site design and management that would have to 14 be worked out in the details. She said that it is an opportunity to do both. She said they can 15 continue to stay the course with smaller sized lots, or they can do something that is larger to 16 protect a larger part of land. 17 Chair Bedford said that there will be an increase in the number of vehicle miles traveled 18 with more people driving and that impacts the climate. She said she is unsure about the 19 tradeoff. 20 Leigh Anne King said the yield of units would increase but it is not a huge jump. She said 21 if the concern is about the yield, then that can be dealt with a density change. 22 Commissioner Fowler skipped to slide #24. She said that Blackwood was not listed and 23 asked why. She noticed there are no rural conservation neighborhoods in the rural buffer. 24 Leigh Anne King said that is intentional because of the rural buffer and the joint planning 25 agreement. She said they tested that with the land use alternatives to get reactions. She said 26 there is a small rural node along the 86 corridor and there are not rural conservation 27 neighborhoods listed. She said in the implementation section of the plan, there is a call out for 28 specific actions to be considered as any future review of those documents. She said that would 29 have to happen as part of those interjurisdictional planning efforts. 30 Commissioner Fowler said it looks like there is a municipal transitional area in the rural 31 buffer. 32 Commissioner Greene said that is Carrboro's transitional area and not in the rural buffer. 33 Cy Stober said they can change the language if necessary but that is basically 34 Carrboro's ETJ. He said it is important for the commissioner to read objectives because the map 35 is not the plan. He asked the Board to read the recommendations. He said there are 58 actions 36 and objectives. He said there are ideas such as revisiting the JPA to address some concerns, 37 mobile home park standards, single family zoning, and duplex zoning. He said as the Board 38 reviews the document, they should keep those initiatives in mind because they are proposed 39 actions but are not ordinance changes. He said they would direct Planning staff to look into 40 these. He said that they do not envision utility extensions to support the community 41 conservation neighborhood. He said these communities would be supported by community 42 wells and community septic systems and to move forward with any other assumption is not 43 realistic. 44 Commissioner Carter said she appreciates the actions, and she thinks they need to look 45 at strategic, targeted ways to address the gap they have in housing. She said she supports the 46 conservation cluster approach on a limited scale. She said she would like to have more 47 information on community health and utilities. She said she wants to support the conversation 48 with the development community to give scenarios for how to provide. 49 Chair Bedford said the School of Government is providing some information on 50 affordable housing on the Greene Tract and they also have the farm preservation draft coming 51 up in a week or two as well.