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Approved 2.5.25 development of private water and wastewater systems. If you look at the summary of the long 275 survey responses and look at them by each of the alternatives, about 58 percent are satisfied with 276 the current approach to land use. So, that's that first alternative, the baseline. That's your 277 currently adopted policy. About 58 percent said that's a good approach, and again, we weren't 278 asking them to pick one of these or to necessarily compare them. We were asking folks to look at 279 each in isolation and say whether or not they supported it. So, that's important to understand. For 280 Land-Use Alternative No. 2, that's the one where we were really focusing on strong environmental, 281 agricultural watershed protection. Majority respondents, 54 percent said that they really supported 282 that focus within this alternative. Looking at No. 3 and No. 4 and we list them here together 283 because there are some overlaps, particularly on how water and wastewater are provided and the 284 employment areas. So, the majority, 52 percent, support encouraging new rural conservation 285 neighborhoods, and I'll talk a little bit more about that in just a moment. Support is a little bit more 286 mixed or more evenly divided between some of the other aspects. When you look at those that 287 support development of private water and wastewater systems to support rural conservation 288 neighborhoods, so that would not be OWASA or Town of Hillsborough municipal services. That 289 would be a private system that would be developer built to serve a particular development. 290 There's not a lot of that in Orange County. Other communities do allow for that type of thing, and 291 it is currently allowed within Orange County but it's not something that, again, is often used. And 292 so, there was a little bit of mixed support. 44 percent did support, 39 percent did not support the 293 idea of those private systems occurring to support rural conservation neighborhoods. In terms of 294 the economic development area south of West Ten Road, about 49 percent support. 35 percent 295 did not support. In terms of higher-intensity mixed-use developments and that fourth alternative, 296 about 41 percent supported and about 46 percent didn't support. And then finally looking at 297 extension of public water and sewer, so that would be, OWASA, Hillsborough, Mebane provided 298 services outside of their current service areas within the County. 48 percent supported and 299 41 percent did not support that with respect to providing higher-intensity mixed-use development 300 service. You have a question? 301 302 Charity Kirk: So, this was a five-point question, right, one, two, three, four, five? 303 304 Leigh Anne King: Right. 305 306 Charity Kirk: So, I gather four and five is in support and one and two is do not support. 307 308 Leigh Anne King: Yeah. We keep the middle as the neutral point and then on either side there's some level of 309 support for that option. Yep, good question. 310 311 Lamar Proctor: Kind of follow up. The long survey was from the in-person participants? 312 313 Leigh Anne King: The long survey and the short survey were provided to anyone that wanted to take them, both at 314 the in-person meetings and online. The short survey at the tabling events, as well. We were really 315 trying to provide as many options for people that wanted to participate. The short survey is easier. 316 It's, kind of, a front and back survey that people can do really quickly, so the majority of people 317 picked that. It's easy, takes a little bit less time, but they can still provide meaningful feedback, but 318 we did get a number of people who wanted to take the time because it does take the time to do 319 the long survey and read through each of the alternatives and think through what the implications 320 of those are. 321 322 Dolores Bailey: Leigh Anne, this is great. Just a quick question. We're talking about 510 people, right? 323 324 Leigh Anne King: Correct. 325 326 Dolores Bailey: That's all we're talking about. 327 328