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)0 <br />Mr. Voorhees said they had made it cleaz that the only way to do that was to work with the <br />regional partners for shared planning and to explore cooperative and multi jurisdictional capital <br />investments and operations, and to develop consistent year-round conservation and water <br />shortage response stages. <br />Mayor Chilton asked whether Durham saw land use planning as being one of the tools that <br />would be brought to bear on water supply. Mr. Voorhees stated he would say that Durham's <br />Boazd believed that there was an ~ appropriate balance that growth management and growth <br />planning must play in sustainability. He said when you looked at Durham's planning regulations <br />and zoning ordinance, they contained smart growth principles and transit-oriented development <br />components, and they continued to have an urban growth boundary that prevented utilities from <br />being extended outside of that area. Mr. Voorhees said they understood fundamentally that all of <br />the partners azound Jordan Lake had its own philosophy and right to self-determination, so the <br />challenge would be where to set thresholds to see a commitment to stewazdship and <br />sustainability that could also recognize all the jurisdictions' right to self-determination of land <br />use policies. <br />b) Update from UNRBA <br />8:20:33 PM Sydney Miller, TJCOG Water Resources Program Manager (attachment hereby <br />incorporated as part of the official Minutes), stated there were three major water resources issues <br />facing the Triangle region that were interrelated and related to growth and development: the <br />Jordan Lake Nutrient Management Strategy, the Falls Lake Nutrient Management Strategy, and <br />water supply. He stated that the series of droughts over the past 10 years had caused them to <br />question the reliability of their existing water supplies and had spurred them to evaluate their <br />rates of growth and their needs for future water supply. Mr. Miller stated that the same growth <br />and development that was threatening the region's water quality was increasing their reliance on <br />those same sources of water. He stated the answer to that challenge of development, water <br />quality degradation, and water supply needs in the Triangle region was in a combination of better <br />land use planning, low intensity development design, water reuse, water conservation, and a <br />second intake facility on Jordan Lake. <br />Commissioner Jacobs pointed out that all of the local governments represented tonight were <br />contributing to TJCOG's development and infrastructure initiative, and Commissioner Cross and <br />Council Member Harrison had attended a meeting that Mr. Miller had helped facilitate that <br />involved many other entities where the two main priorities to work on over the next few yeazs <br />were transportation and water. He stated that group had discussed how much water did they <br />have and how would they accommodate expected growth. Mr. Miller stated that group had <br />identified the importance of a 50-yeaz plan for the region, and similarly such a plan had already <br />been a part of their process. <br />c) Proposed Chatham/Orange Task Forces <br />8:28:19 PM Laura Blackmon, Orange County Manager (attachment hereby incorporated as <br />part of the official Minutes), provided an update of the discussion at the last Assembly of <br />Governments meeting, noting that the Working Group had been asked at that time to set up a <br />5 <br />