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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS And PLANNING BOARD QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 24, 2009 Action Agenda Item No. E.1 SUBJECT: Non - Public Hearing Items DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1. Section 1.5.2 of Comprehensive Plan Name Phone Number 2. Planning Department's Work Staging 3. BOCC Adopted Small Area Plan Specifics Craig Benedict 245 -2592 4. Unified Development Ordinance Proposal Tom Altieri 245 -2579 5. New Ideas — Ongoing Comprehensive Plan Michael Harvey 245 -2607 Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation Perdita Holtz 245 -2611 6. DRAFT Minutes, 8/5/09 Planning Board Meeting PURPOSE: To present proposed processes for 1) Implementing Small Area Plans, 2) Completing a Unified Development Ordinance, and 3) Ongoing Comprehensive Plan implementation. BACKGROUND: INTRODUCTION The 2030 Comprehensive Plan includes 38 goals and 263 objectives, many of which are lofty and far reaching by design. In some cases goals may reflect an ideal that may never be fully realized but must be continuously chased. Plan objectives will need to be reviewed annually, action strategies identified and prioritized consistent with BOCC goals, and then implemented. In some cases implementation actions may be carried out through the work of a single County department and /or advisory board working independently but in most cases work will need to be coordinated among multiple groups. Plan monitoring and evaluation procedures should be determined to measure progress, guidelines for which are provided in Section 1.5.2 of the adopted Plan (Attachment 1). Tonight the Planning Department will be presenting processes to initiate Plan implementation, monitoring and evaluation -- this is just the beginning. COMMUNICATION WITH BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BOCC) During budget and regular BOCC work sessions held earlier this year, Planning Staff presented its recommendations for beginning Comprehensive Plan implementation. More specifically, staff conveyed the need to organize upcoming efforts in the following three stages: 1. Existing and adopted Comprehensive Plan ideas [i.e. Small Area Plans (SAPs) for Efland /Mebane and Eno EDD and the Orange County/Town of Hillsborough Strategic Growth Plan]. 2. Pursue a Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to create a well organized framework, clarify the development process, and prepare for ongoing Plan implementation amendments.