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clfic conductivity and fecal coliform levels, some of the sites did not meet quality stan dards for drinking water in Georgia. Among them were Brooklyn Creek near Baxter and Hancock streets, and unnamed tributaries off of Cloverhurst Avenue and Pulaski Street. On the day of the Rendezvous, the cleanest sites were in the Little Bear Creek area in the northwest comer of Clarke County and Little Sandy Creek In the county’s northeast comer. Fraser says UOWN is looking lor ways to share the Rendezvous results with local gov ernments and interred citizens. On May 30, the group presented its findings at its monthly meeting (held the last Tuesday of each month). UOWN is In the process of posting the data on its web site (negia.net/-cwp), and welcomes inquiries at upperoconee® yahoo.com. (BA) DEVELOPERS 1 GREENBELT 0 The Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission assembled on Wednesday, June 7, for the first of two work sessions sched uled to finalize the development regulations which will back up the county's new compre hensive land use plan. If their meeting was any indication, it's going to be a long summer. A Commission vote on the ordinance was originally set for April, it has been post poned several times due to last-minute protests from businesses, developers and rural property owners who say the new reg ulations will infringe upon their property rights. The first policy Issue addressed at the meeting was the Hearings Board, which will replace the Board of Adjustment in reviewing subdivision plans and zoning vari ances. A consensus was reached fairly r quickly on the composition of the board, which will be comprised of two five member panels appointed by the Mayor and Commission, Previously, each group was to have a * neighborhood representative” and a “member-at-large." After some Commissioners said the term “neighborhood representative” was too vague, both slots were changed to “citizen representative” The remaining positions—a developer, design professional and a planning commis sioner—were not altered. The frequency of Mayor and Commission decisions on type one and two rezoning requests was changed. Type one requests— those deemed inconsistent with the land use plan—will be heard every other month, rather than every three months. Commissioner John Barrow argued the new regulations should make type one hearings “the exception, not the rule ” and that making such decisions a matter of course will “contribute to the culture of spot zoning ” But Mayor Eldzidge and most of the other Commissioners agreed the schedule could be revised later if necessary. Type two requests—for zone changes or special use permits which are consistent with the land use plan—will be placed on the same schedule as type one decisions, Instead of being decided every month. The Mayor and Commission then moved on to rural “greenbelt" densities. The orig inal land use regulations called for an AR-10 green belt zone—meaning there could only be one unit [house] per 10 acres of land. Fearing rural property values would fall under that standard, the county raised the density to one unit per five acres. Many resF dents say higher rural densities would encourage sprawl and degrade what's left of the county's green space. The latest options proposed by the devel opment regulations steering committee range from one unit per five acres—as rec ommended by the Hanning Commission—to an average density of one unit per two acres, which the Mayor and the majority of Commissioners support. During the deliberations, Commissioner Barrow suggested they revisit the concept of transferable development rights (TOR). TDRs would allow rural property owners in “sending zones” to v sell development rights to “receiving zones” In urban locales. In exchange for a monetary sum determined privately between the two parties, an urban developer would be able to move up by one zoning category. 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