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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 14, 1999 Action Agenda Item No. ,Z_ SUBJECT: Shaping Orange County's Future Update DEPARTMENT: ERCD PUBLIC BEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): • SOCF Scenario Process ® 1998 Accomplishments ® Schedule of Activities • Summary of 2030 Current Trends Scenario (to be provided at meeting) INFORMATION CONTACT: David Stancil, ext 2590 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To receive a status report from staff and representatives of the Shaping Orange County's Future (SOCF) Task Force concerning recent activities and milestones that will be reached in coming months. BACKGROUND: Since December 1996, the Shaping Orange County's Future Task Force has been working to develop a countywide program for quality growth and community building for Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough. Significant headway has been made in the last eight months, as the Task Force of 27 citizens has adopted a synthesized grouping of issues, a values statement, and a working set of goals and objectives. The Task Force is currently engaged in developing scenarios of the County's future. Since February 25, members have split into three facilitated work groups to analyze the "current trends" scenarios for the year 2030 that were prepared by staff, and visualize an Orange County in 30 years that is consistent with the group's goals and values. The three groups willreport on their vision for the year 2030 to the Task Force on May 11, and the Task Force as a whole will take the rest of May and June to coalesce these visions into a "Preferred Scenario" of our future in the year 2030. This preferred scenario would be the springboard for provisional recommendations from the Task Force, expectedby December 1. The SOCF update can be accommodated in 45 minutes with the following structure: Co-Chair Ellen Ironside -.Introduction and Recent Accomplishments (5 minutes) Staff - Summary Presentation of Current Trends/Baseline Year 2030 Data (10 minutes) — this includes an explanation of what this scenario is and is not, (i.e., summary of whafthe County and Towns could be like 30 years from now if current trends continue unabated) Task Force representatives - Report from Scenario Work Groups (15 minutes, 5 for each work group)