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review of what is going on. He stated that it was important to the quality of life in Orange County to be kept informed of what is happening in these townships. The Planning Director stated that the Subdivision Regulations was important to the safety, health and welfare of the citizens of the County. piscussion ensued again concerning citizen's imput about the pro posed County-wide extension of the Subdivision Regulations and the Zoning Ordinance. Chairman.Whitted summarized that with the Technical Advisory Committee's continual work on the Subdivision Regulations, they should be ready for adoption by the end of February or the first of March. The Advisory Planning council would be appointed sometime the first of January. The Board agreed that the time schedule should be left up to the Planning Staff for, the implementation of these two items. 4. Extend the Zoning Ordinance to Bingham, Cheeks and Hillsborough Townships. The Planning Director had indicated to the Board from his work sheet that the preparation of data would take until the end of November. Meetings and interviews with agencies and local representa~ tives would take until the end of January, 1977. Community meetings would be scheduled zor the months of January and February. The Plan . Development. would'be from the middle of January through March of 1977. Mr. Dobson stated that the Plan Development would be the land use plan. He stated that the Planning Department foresaw the classification and land development for the Townships of Bingham, Cheeks and Hillsborough going hand and glove with. the extension of the Zoning Ordinance. He added further that by the end of March, the Planning Staff would have ready a rough draft of the land development and land classification plans for the entire County, and at that time, the Board would be in the position to extend zoning to Bingham, Cheeks and Hillsborough Townships. Discussion ensued further concerning the time schedule and the staff availability to implement these various elements of the planning program. Commissioner Whitted summarized that the Board had indicated to the Planning Staff that land use planning should be the focus of the Staff. He stated that the Board had talked about the Subdivision Regulations and its time schedule, and now, the extending of zoning to Bingham, Cheeks and Hillsborough. He said that now the Board was just listing priorities and the Planning Staff would come back to the Board at another time and present some suggested.time frames for implementa- tion of these. He stated that he felt the time frames should be realistic. One issue that needed to be resolved was whether the zoning Ordinance to be extended should be new, amended, or just what we presently have. He added that this would establish what the time frame would be, however, when the Board presented this at a public hearing, they should have something that they could defend. Commissioner Gustaveson added that it was important to stick to the time schedule that was presented by the Planning Staff. The Board agreed that in order to establish some sequence of imple- mentation, the Planning Staff should work on the instituting the Subreg, organization of the Advisory Council and the instituting of the zoning Ordinance in the different townships and that effort should be parallel. The-Planning Staff should continue work and attempt to fit these prior- ities into their time schedule. The size of .the Planning Advisory Councils would be left up to the Planning Department to decide what is feasible, however, the Advisory Council should focus their attention on land use planning. 6. Revision of the Zoning and Subdivision Ordinances. The Chairman stated that as spon as the Subdivision Regulations are ready, the Technical Advisory Committee would turn their attention to the amendments to the Zoning Ordinance in an attempt to make the Zoning Ordinance and amendments more workable. One exception to this is the section dealing with signs. The Zoning Ordinance would essentially be the same for all Townships, however, some districts of the different townships would not necessarily apply.