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Transportation Issues Goal 1. Link Transportation Planning with the Way Orange County Citizens Live in Their Community and with Environmental Protection Objectives: • Have concurrent, integrated transportation and land use planning that is needs - based, community- oriented, and regionally coordinated • Coordinate transportation planning with UNC ® Increase environmentally sound and efficient transportation systems to link people with jobs and services • Increase public transportation opportunities (for example, increase bus service between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill /Carrboro; support development of light rail) • Lobby for increased federal and state funding for public transportation • Increase incentives for bicycling and pedestrian transit (for example, include paved shoulders (4' wide) for all upgrades to roads (re- paving or widening); require all urban thoroughfares to have sidewalks and all rural thoroughfares to have shoulders) • Discourage further highway construction • Create a community in Orange County that is less dependent on the private auto; phase down use of private auto • Pursue additional means to reduce air pollution from automobile use (for example, lobby for state inspection for heavy -duty trucks; promote ownership of low emission motor vehicles; promote less polluting traffic patterns by requiring park and ride lots and auto - free zones) Environment and Natural Resources Goal 1. Understand and Assess the Limitations of Our Natural Resources, and Ensure Their Sustainable Use Objectives: • Examine status and trends of each resource, based on a small number of key indicators; • Create a permanent County database for these key indicators • Establish a general guide of standards and criteria based on resource limits that will help define parameters of sustainability in Orange County • Examine the impact on the natural resource base and environment of not having users pay the full costs for resource use and pollution • Promote citizen awareness and understanding of environmental issues Goal 2. Protect and ((in Special Cases Preserve) or (Conserve)) Natural Areas and Farmland Objectives: • Promote conservation of areas identified in the 1988 Natural Areas Inventory for Orange County as well as buffers around these areas and corridors among them, and protect large, contiguous tracts of hardwood forest as outlined in the 1997 report A Landscape with Wildlife for Orange County • Promote the maintenance of open space, both large and small scale • Recognize and provide incentives for long -term stewardship of land by rural citizens • Develop policies, incentives and public awareness to help protect: traditional and start-up farming, farmland, and use of prime agricultural soils for agricultural purposes