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2. Environmental Scan discussion: Opened by Chair Suzanne Caton. John Andrews put forth the following 5 topics that he felt should be included in the Scan: 1. Open Space 2. Healthy Environment 3. Noise 4. Access to Amenities 5. 1 lousing/Residential development Suzanne presented her proposed outline with the following topics: 1. Residential Development 2. Commercial Development/Town Center 3. Transportation/traffic ili ea%i b i t tf 4. Sustainability Discussion: Commercial Development and Town Center were really two separate topics. Marianne Lazarus suggested deleting transportation/traffic because it is being discussed by a separate work group. Others said it should be included because of our previously stated concern for accessability and"walkability". Karl Kastorf recommended that we not use the word"sustainability"because many people do not understand what it means. Jerry Moloney encouraged us to include it. Others suggested keeping the idea of sustainability but changing its topic name to Environmental Quality and to include within it physical appearance,historic character,infrastructure management etc. Gary Fallick suggested that we were getting too specific too early and that we should first define the end point in general terms. Marianne said we need to discuss the proper uiix of business, housing and other types of development. Suzanne suggested that maybe this should be in the "I lard Question"category. Several suggested that sustainability is included in all of the topics. The discussion continued until the following list of topics was approved and subcommittees formed to develop them: 1. Residential development. Jerry Moloney (chair), Marianne Lazarus, Torn I larden 2. Commercial development. Karl Kastorf(chair), Jerry Moloney 3. Town Center. John Frey (Chair), Torn Harden, Suzanne Caton 4. Accessibility. John Andrews (chair) 5, Environmental quality. Gary Fallick (chair), John Andrews, Donna Rossi 6. Open space. Ione Caring (chair), Karen Longeteig,John Andrews 7. Public Property. (schools, infrastructure, gateways, historic property, appearance) No volunteers for this topic yet. 3. Information: Karl Kastorf volunteered to be in charge of getting demographic information for the group. Mercer Report and Community Conversations are probably in the Lexington Room at Cary Library. John Frey has copies of Design Guidelines for Commercial Districts.Volume I: Public Improvements and Volume II:Private Sector Improvements. 4. Meeting adjourned at about 9 pm.