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<br />Budget Impacts: <br />Advertising and mail-out costs for large-scale Comprehensive Plan <br />amendments can add thousands of dollars to a fiscally strained County <br />budget.. The multi-tier process of adopting small .area plans and then <br />the subsequent process of adopting Comprehensive Plan (text & map) <br />amendments and Zoning (text & map) separately will, at a minimum, <br />double the costs for notification for one large project. Processing <br />Comprehensive Plan (text & map) amendments and Zoning Ordinance <br />(text & map) amendments at the same public hearing can save <br />considerable resources on both newspaper advertisements and <br />property owner mail-outs. <br />EXAMPLE- A large-scale Comprehensive Plan (land use map) <br />amendment to implement a small area plan. <br />Assumations: <br />^ 4860 affected property owners <br />^ 2 advertisements each in Chapel Hill Herald & News of Orange / <br />Northern Orange Xtra <br />^ first-class mailing to all affected property owners <br />^ affected properties posted <br />Notification Costs (includes staff time): <br />^ Newspaper advertisements - $3,000 <br />^ First-class Mailings - 3 000 <br />Total: $6,000 <br />NOTE: At a minimum, costs would be doubted for processing the <br />Zoning Ordinance amendments at a subsequent public hearing. <br />