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