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AGENDA
PLANNING BOARD
Tuesday, January 2, 2001
6:30 p.m. Town Barn
ITEM # 1: Consideration of additions to the agenda.
ITEM 92: Comments from the Chair
• Committee Reports
ITEM #3: Review proposed text amendments for open & recreation space.
ITEM #4: Brief update on where we stand with recreation space based on our population & national
guidelines
ITEM #5: Review of status of sidewalk amendments
ITEM #6: Further discussion of growth boundaries/TDR/cooperative planning with Orange County
IITEM #7: Adjourn
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MINUTES
PLANNING BOARD
January 2, 2001
PRESENT: Ed Gill (Chair), Jim Boericke, Joel Brinkley, Cathy Carroll, David Daniel, Chris
Quinn, Bryant Warren
PUBLIC: Aaron Cain, Margaret Hauth
Gill called the meeting to order at 6:35 PM.
ITEM #3: The members reviewed the draft text amendments and offered no further changes.
Hauth said the text would be included in the public hearing at the end of the month.
ITEM #4: Cain described the brief analysis he conducted to compare Hillsborough current
status versus national recreation standards for park space. He noted that the town has
sufficient property in most categories; it simply needs to develop facilities on the
parcels. Cain noted the only exception being mini parks, like Murray Street, which is
where the Park Board has focused its energy. The members were glad to here that
the town is not significantly deficient in this area.
ITEM #5: Hauth provided an update on where text amendments requiring sidewalks had been
left. She said the packet included the draft language last discussed in 1998,
comments received from a public hearing on that draft, an example from Delaware
that established thresholds for sidewalk construction, and information about the trail
system in RTP. Daniel asked Hauth to investigate options for incentives to
developers to install sidewalks, suggesting possibly increased density or some other
option.
ITEM #6: Cain discussed some additional maps; providing options of base maps for a growth
boundary or a TDR program. Cain said he mapped the water and sewer service
boundary and a potential expansion of the ETJ. Hauth noted the ETJ has not been
amended since it was adopted in the 1980s. State law allows an ETJ one mile
beyond the city, the line showed how that would change, based on annexations since
the ETJ establishment. The members suggested those two boundaries get shown
together on one map so they could see how similar they are. Carroll asked that the
maps be produced in 81/2 X 11 format so the members could study the maps outside
the meetings. Hauth said they would continue to try to provide that information, but
with the current technology available, the maps would not be helpful.
Gill adjourned the meeting at 8:03 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Mar aret A. Hauth, Secretary