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2 <br />2. RFQ distributed. Copies of the proposal posted on APA national and North <br />Carolina Chapter websites. Five (5) responses were received. <br />3. Interviews of the consultants were conducted in the Link Governmental Services <br />Center and the BOCC ultimately selects the Consultant to complete the project on <br />November 22, 2004. <br />e March 2005 through June 2006: <br />1. BOCC approves consultant contract for Phases I and II of the project and appoints <br />the task force to oversee the completion of the project, <br />2. On June 27, 2006 the BOCC receives the draft report for the TDR Feasibility <br />Study for Phases I and II and affirms the recommendation of the TDR Task Force <br />that the process of designing a TDR program should go forward. <br />e September 2006 through December 2007: <br />1. On September 19, 2006 the BOCC approves the Phase III contract with the <br />Consultant, <br />2. The budget for Phase III is approved and the Consultant is given formal notice to <br />proceed on December 19, 2006, <br />3. On December 11, 2007 the BOCC relieved the Consultant of deadlines noted in <br />the original contract. A this point the consultant was informed that work would be <br />re- initiated after the completion of the Comprehensive Plan. <br />BOCC INPUT: The BOCC considered the TDR program, and various administrative design <br />options, at a May 24, 2007 and a August 27, 2007 BOCC work session. <br />Under this Program, the County would designate "Growth Areas" and "Conservation Areas" in <br />its land use planning jurisdiction. Conservation Area property owners could sell a conservation <br />easement on their property to a Growth Area property owner. Growth Area property owners <br />could then transfer the easement to the County in exchange for permission to develop those <br />areas more intensely, within specific guidelines to minimize impacts of the increased <br />development. <br />Proposed Growth Areas include properties outside of municipal jurisdictions that are: <br />1. In Economic Development Districts as zoned by Orange County, or <br />2. In "urban transition areas" in either the Hillsborough Strategic Plan or the Efland- Mebane <br />Small Area Plan, or <br />3. In "rural community nodes" in the Orange County Land Use Element. Excluded from <br />Growth Areas are properties that are either already protected as open space or historic <br />or environmentally - sensitive. <br />Proposed Conservation Areas include properties outside of municipal jurisdictions that are not <br />in a designated Growth Area. Within the Conservation Areas, properties eligible to participate <br />are not already protected by a conservation easement and not already developed to their <br />maximum density by zoning. Conservation Area properties must also be at least one of the <br />following: <br />