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DRAFT <br />How Does the program Work For <br />Conservation Area LandownersT <br />How Does the Program Work for Growth <br />Area Landowners/Developere7 <br />Step 1. Come Into the Orange County Planning and <br />Zoning Office and ask to work with our ateft to complete <br />a Baseline Repport describing how many Conserve n <br />Area Points (CAPs) your props Is worth. Any portion <br />of your Orange County property~0 or more acres In <br />size in en e6glble Conservation Area can be conserved <br />with the SGRC program. SmaAer properties may also <br />be eAipible, and all eligible properties eam extra CAPs If <br />the property has wegands, drinking water supply, natural <br />habitat areas, ar meets other historic or environmental <br />criteria. <br />Step 2.Orange County will contact you when someone <br />interested In purchasing your CAPs has contacted ua. <br />We will put you in touch with the Growth Area property <br />owner to work out your own price for your CAPs. <br />Step 3.Once the devebpment process has been ap- <br />proved, the Growth Area property owner will pay you for <br />your CAPs; at that time, you will have to sign an agree- <br />ment toplace a conaervatlon easement on that portion <br />of your property that will remain undeveloped In perpetu- <br />ity. <br />Step 1. Come Into the Orange County Planning end <br />Zoning Department to get familiar with the SGRC plan- <br />ning process and requirements, including streamlining <br />the development review process and getting'bonus <br />credit" for Including eftordable housing and LEED-certl- <br />fled elements. <br />Step 2. During the devebpment of your conceptual site <br />plan, our alaft will work with you to determine how many <br />residential units you can place onyour property with and <br />without ppurchasing Conservation Areas Points (CAPs) <br />from a Conservation Area, property owner perticlpagng in <br />the SGRC program. <br />Step 3. If you choose to use CAPS from the SGRC <br />progrem, we wIB contact property owners with CAPs to <br />sell. You will then negotiate direcdy with them on the <br />price of the CAPs. <br />Step 4.Onca the devebpment pro)ect Is approved, <br />you must pay the Conservation Area participant prior to <br />startMg wnsWdion on any phase of the project. <br />Define how the program would work <br />Put the plan into effect <br />STRATEGIC GROWTH 8r <br />CONSERVATION PLAN <br />This Strategic Growth 8 Rural Conse <br />Plan (the SGRC Plan) documents C <br />County's vision for a program that will i <br />options for preserving some of the G <br />rural areas through incentives for strategy <br />planned growth in its urbanizing areas <br />Plan presents the SGRC Program goa <br />objectives, developed in consultation w <br />Board of County Commissioners. The <br />Plan also outlines how the program woul <br />and how it would be administered. [ <br />Growth Areas (GAs) and Conservation <br />(CAs) are Illustrated in a map. <br />The Strategic Growth & Conservation <br />the third part of a four-part planning F <br />undertaken by Orange County begin) <br />2005 (see back page for a description of <br />phases). The planning process was cor <br />for the County by a consuRant team fror <br />Berger Group, Inc. and UNC Charlott <br />oversight by County staff, and with input <br />citizen Task Force, a Working Group of <br />Advisory and Planning Boards, and the p <br />The <br />s and <br />;h the <br />iGRC <br />I work <br />efined <br />Areas <br />'Ian is <br />~ocess <br />ng in <br />dl four <br />iucted <br />Louis <br />, with <br />T <br />~ ~ i ~ <br />Program Administration <br />SGRC PROGRAM GOALS <br />