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9 <br />g) A services and facilities element which identifies existing and <br />proposed service areas and improvements for water, sewer, refuse <br />disposal, education, emergency services, and other utilities and <br />service facilities. <br />h) Such additional elements dealing with other subjects which in the <br />judgment of the Board of Commissioners relate to the physical <br />development of the County. Such elements may include, but not <br />be limited to, the subjects of historic preservation, community or <br />rural design, growth management, etc. <br />As part of the Comprehensive Plan, area plans may be prepared which <br />focus on a portion of the County such as a township, a watershed or an <br />interstate highway interchange.. Likewise, technical information andlor <br />task force reports prepared as part of a plan element or an area plan may <br />be incorporated as part'of the appendix of or as a supplement to the <br />Comprehensive Plan. <br />In preparation and adoption of a plan element,. area plan or other similar <br />document, the Board of Commissioners shall ever be. mindful of the need <br />to balance the public interest with the needs of private interests, <br />particularly in the conservation of surtace and underground water <br />resources, soil resources, and natural growth resources of the county and <br />the efficient use of the renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. <br />*2.2.13 Comprehensive Plan Adoption <br />*Amended <br />4-4-88 The Comprehensive Plan shall be so prepared that all or individual <br />elements and parts thereof may be adopted by the Board of <br />Commissioners. The Board of Commissioners, upon receipt of a <br />recommended Comprehensive Plan or portion thereof from the Planning <br />Board,-shall consider such recommendations and adopt them by <br />resolution, either unchanged or with modifications. <br />Prior to adoption of the Comprehensive Plan or portion thereof, the Board <br />of Commissioners shall hold a public hearing thereon. Notice of the public <br />hearing shall be given by publishing said notice at least twice in a <br />newspaper of general circulation in Orange County, stating the time and <br />place of such hearing, and the substance of the proposed plan. This <br />notice shall appear in said newspaper for two successive weeks with the <br />first notice appearing not less than ten (10) days nor more than twenty-five <br />days before the date set for the public hearing. ' <br />*2.2.14 Amendment of Adoated Comprehensive Plan <br />*Amended <br />9 <br />