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Commissioner Gordon modified her motion to keep the public hearing open for <br /> the submittal of information from the Emergency Services Director of Orange County <br /> regarding the condition regarding the lane for fire protection. <br /> Commissioner Gordon: I would like to get the letter from the Caldwell Fire <br /> Department certifying that they could provide adequate provision of services. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> Chair Jacobs: I would hope that the Planning Board and the Planning staff would <br /> revisit the traffic impact analysis. Instead of using just a numerical threshold, I think that we <br /> see that an increase in traffic in a percentile manner has a big impact in a rural area. It may <br /> not meet the criteria that we have established for the traffic impact analysis to kick in, but <br /> obviously it has a transformative effect on the quality of life in a neighborhood. I would hope <br /> that you could have a conversation about how we might capture that in an objective way, so <br /> that there's at least some more data that we can have about the way in which developments in <br /> rural areas change rural character. <br /> 6. Regular Agenda <br /> a. Initial Review of Proposed Chatham/Orange Task Forces <br /> The Board considered reviewing potential processes, including proposed charge and <br /> composition, to establish three new Chatham/Orange Task Forces and, following any <br /> revisions, authorizing staff to forward the task force proposals to the other jurisdictions for <br /> approval and respective appointments. <br /> Chair Jacobs said that this item has been bumped three times, so that is why it has <br /> been put first in the regular agenda items. <br /> Laura Blackmon said that last spring there were several meetings with Orange County, <br /> OWASA, Chatham County, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro officials regarding some mutual issues. <br /> The task force was charged with discussing items that were being discussed by the larger <br /> group. There are three task forces on the table for discussion —joint planning, regional <br /> transportation planning and public transportation, and water supply/watershed protection <br /> issues. There is a proposed charge for each task force and a proposed membership. This will <br /> be sent to each entity for review. There is an Assembly of Governments meeting this <br /> Thursday night, and this issue is included in the agenda packet. There are two changes. One <br /> of them is to take the Water Supply/Watershed Protection and move Watershed into the Joint <br /> Planning Task Force. The other one has to do with water supply and on page 35 there is a <br /> memorandum from Environment and Resource Conservation Director Dave Stancil that <br /> outlines this issue. The goal is to look at a more regional type of organization to discuss water <br /> supply. The City of Durham has been discussing water supply with OWASA. The discussion <br /> has expanded into looking at a regional committee to do some water supply planning, <br /> particularly dealing with Jordan Lake and looking at a western intake facility. This information <br /> is included as part of the packet. <br /> Commissioner Gordon said that planning between Orange County and Chatham <br /> County is important and she said that she was struck that transportation planning was being <br /> separated from land use planning in these task forces. She thinks that it would be a mistake to <br /> separate these two because they are so intimately linked. She would like staff to look at a <br /> model of the Durham/Chapel Hill/Orange Work Group. This is a recently successful model. <br /> There are two representatives from each elected board and one Planning Board member. She <br /> said that she could not imagine a fruitful discussion of transportation planning and land use <br />