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~, <br />'_ ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 11, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~_ <br />SUBJECT: Strategic Growth -- Rural Conservation (SGRC also known as TDR) Consultant <br />Implementation Update/Possible Contract Amendment <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENTS: (Under Separate Cover) <br />1) Additional Background information <br />and Program Administration INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Summary Craig Benedict, Planning Director, 245 <br />2) October 3, 2007 Planning Board 2592 <br />Minutes and Resolution Glenn Bowles, 245 2577 <br />3) Phase III Contract and Suggested <br />Revisions <br />4) SGRC Draft Report <br />• PURPOSE: To receive an update of the SGRC/TDR consultant work and consider a contract <br />amendment. <br />BACKGROUND: The BOCC retained The Louis Berger Group and the University of North <br />Carolina -Charlotte Urban Institute to complete Phase III of the TDR study. The Phase III <br />studies are a continuation of the first two phases (background data collection and feasibility), <br />which Berger and the Urban Institute completed in the fall of 2006. <br />ORIGINAL TIMELINE <br />The original contract timeline proposed completion of work in late 2007; however, delays <br />occurred in scheduling meetings with appropriate stakeholders and advisory groups. In <br />addition, comments received at recent public meeting presentations has prompted more time <br />consuming deliberations. <br />The role of the consultant and planning staff was to proceed with the adopted contract which <br />included a specific scope of deliverables (including various meetings) and a specific timeline to <br />accomplish said work. The consultant has proceeded at a pace that the various groups could <br />absorb but not without some resistance to the complexity and timing of the topic. <br />The original Phase Three contract calls for an implementation Work Group, which was intended <br />to be different from the Phase I and II Task Force. The Phase I & II Task Force dealt with many <br />philosophical and policy issues, which the consultant now relies upon the BOCC for direction in <br />Phase Three. A few of the original Task Force members are serving on the Work Group. <br />• <br />