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.OGRAM ADMINISTRATION <br />How Does the Program Work for Growth <br />Area Landowners /Developers? <br />inning and <br />Step 1. Come into the Orange County Planning <br />to complete <br />and Zoning Department to get familiar with the <br />nservation <br />SGRC planning process and requirements, including <br />rtion of your <br />streamlining the development review process and <br />n size in an <br />getting "bonus credit" for including affordable housing <br />d with the <br />and third -party green building certifications. <br />;o be eligible, <br />the property <br />Step 2. During the development of your conceptual site <br />I habitat <br />plan, our staff will work with you to determine how many <br />ital criteria. <br />residential units you can place on your property with and <br />without purchasing Conservation Points (CPs) from a <br />Conservation Area property owner participating in the <br />ien someone <br />SGRC program. <br />acted us. <br />;a property <br />:Ps. <br />Step 3. If you choose to use CPs from the SGRC <br />program, we will contact property owners with CPs to <br />sell. You will then negotiate directly with them on the <br />is been <br />price of the CAPs. <br />will pay <br />to sign an <br />Step 4. Once the development project is approved, <br />nt on that <br />you must pay the Conservation Area participant prior to <br />eveloped in <br />starting construction on any phase of the project. <br />ajor phases: <br />Define available options <br />Determine which options are feasible <br />aasible options, the County proceeded with phases 3 and 4: <br />Define how the program would work <br />• • �• -- Put the clan into effect <br />STRATEGIC GROWTH & <br />CONSERVATION PLAN <br />This Strategic Growth & Resource Conservation <br />Plan (the SGRC Plan) documents Orange <br />County's vision for a program that provides <br />options for preserving some of the County's <br />rural areas through incentives for strategically - <br />planned growth in its urbanizing areas. The <br />Plan presents the SGRC Program goals and <br />objectives, developed in consultation with the <br />Board of County Commissioners. The SGRC <br />Plan also outlines how the program would work <br />and how it would be administered. Defined <br />Growth Areas (GAs) and Conservation Areas <br />(CAs) are illustrated in a map. <br />The Strategic Growth & Resource Conservation <br />Plan was the third part of a four -part planning <br />process undertaken by Orange County beginning <br />in 2005 (see back page for a description of all four <br />phases). The planning process was conducted <br />for the County by a consultant team from Louis <br />Berger Group, Inc. and UNC Charlotte, with <br />oversight by County staff, and with input from a <br />citizen Task Force, a Working Group of County <br />Advisory and Plannina Boards. and the Dublic. <br />SGRC PF <br />