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DRAFT 32 Attachment 6 532 Brian Crawford: We still need someone out there to push this forward. 533 534 Jeffrey Schmitt: I agree. 535 536 Larry Wright: Aren't the Board of County Commissioners the driving force? And the County Manager? 537 538 Mary Bobbitt- Cooke: When I was recruited to be on this Board, I was told this is time for us to implement. 539 540 Brian Crawford: I would rather be shot down than for the Board of County Commissioners to say "no that is not within your 541 purview", rather than we not do anything. 542 543 Jeffrey Schmitt: I absolutely agree. 544 545 Brian Crawford: What I heard from Tom is that when you come staff will give us some ideas. They have the plan in front of 546 them. We can say that sounds good, let's use the Strategy Initiative Form and ask the Housing Board to work on this. That may 547 be something they already want to work on but at least we know we are looking at the plan comprehensively and we know we 548 have 2030 down the road and we would like to move it along. 549 550 Craig Benedict: The colored form that talked about project, the first column, "2009 -2010 BOCC Priorities" with a number by each 551 one. Those are priorities the Board of County Commissioners had in front of them in the budget session this year and had . 552 determined that is what they want us to do. 553 554 Brian Crawford: Are those parts of the Comprehensive Plan? 555 556 Craig Benedict: Some of them, like Intergovernmental Coordination, yes, to work with your local governments and develop a 557 joint planning area agreement. This is our marching orders as much as we can do. One of them is doing a UDO framework so 558 that is a priority and try to implement a Small Area Plan. Even though we were just finishing a Comprehensive Plan update and 559 they were in the middle of the budget process, we tried to say let's get these things out of the way. I think there will be a new list 560 each year. 561 562 Brian Crawford: All these documents we have worked on, it should be a minimum mission of every Planning Board member that 563 is here is to make sure those documents continue to move. We have spent so much time on the plans. 564 565 Earl McKee: That is what drove my original questions. I knew there had not been a lot of work and a lot of work to be done and 566 when I see this and not as many people, I could not figure out how we could do this much work with this many people, even with 567 a full staff. 568 569 Perdita Holtz: In some of those colors, the yellow, the salmon and the fuchsia, identify those projects that will be delayed or not 570 even worked on if we are not able to rehire staff. 571 572 Earl McKee: I had no idea how much had been done but I knew that would be a long way to go. Is this process at the 573 beginning, the middle and the end? 574 575 Craig Benedict: One thing about the Unified Development Ordinance, it is important because that will be the framework on 576 development we hang all these implementation ideas from the Small Area Plans and new process and standards. 577 578 Peter Hallenbeck: I want to try to summarize just to make sure I have it correct. There has been a deferred maintenance on the 579 existing codes and plans in anticipation of the Small Area Plans and the UDO over the past few years. You now have public 580 input and the details are ready to be worked out and you find yourself with staff reductions that will delay getting the Small Area 581 Plans and the UDO going. It seems the delay of those plans will affect how the economic recovery, when it comes, happens 582 because we will have poor execution of construction because of old plans or projects delayed because you don't have the UDO 583 and these new and united plans and codes are important to overcoming this perception that Orange County is against all growth. 584 So Orange County could miss out on this inevitable recovery unless the Small Area Plans and UDOs are updated in a timely 585 manner and your timeframes show that this could happen by mid -2010 which is roughly one year and that deadline is pretty 586 important if you want to try get in on the new priority list and the new development. When I look at that I agree because I don't 587 want to be sitting here at Orange County a year from now and everyone says, we have money coming back, Durham and 588 Alamance, let's stay out of Orange that is nothing but trouble. Seeing all that, it seems that has to wait from your perspective. 1 589 don't see how you can take that plan and put a whole lot of time into it when the focus should be getting the Small Area Plans