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Staff Recommends: 1. Staff/Planning Board develop prioritized implementation strategies for BOCC consideration at its planning retreat(s) each year. 2. Comprehensive Plan Implementation Strategy form (provided as handout) used to convey key facets. Monitoring & Eval. (Agenda packet pp. 20 &21) • 2030 Comprehensive Plan suggests development of evaluation criteria, including sustainability indicators for each Plan Element. This would be a mid-term project. Staff Recommends: 1. Comprehensive Plan status report to BOCC every other year starting this November. 2. BOCC directive for coordination among respective departments to complete reports. RECOMMENDATION Authorize Planning Staff to proceed with implementation of: • Small Area Plans; • Development of a UDO; and • Ongoing Comprehensive Plan implementation as proposed. Commissioner Gordon made reference to the SAP implementation, page 7, attachment 3-2, and said that conditional zoning is complicated and she would rather focus on the other areas of the SAP first. She mentioned that the Planning Department would have three fewer staff members to do all of this work. She suggested moving first on the Comprehensive Plan implementation since so much time has been spent on this and it is the top priority. Commissioner Yuhasz disagreed with Commissioner Gordon. He said that in going through the NC 57 Small Area Plan, what came out of that was a need for flexibility in addressing the concerns of people who want to do things there and the residents there. This flexibility is not available in the current ordinance. He thinks that the fact that it is complicated is not a reason to delay. He thinks that any delay in trying to implement or create the conditional use construct is going to delay the County further in the effective implementation of the small area plans. He said that the UDO should be repackaged and the inconsistencies should be repaired in order to be able to use this tool. Commissioner Jacobs said that these documents are not public friendly and they need to be. He made reference to the shaded areas and asked if ERCD would be involved in this process. He wants this to be coordinated with ERCD. Craig Benedict verified that ERCD would be involved and Planning will be working closely with this department. Commissioner Jacobs agreed with Commissioner Yuhasz about not being afraid to approach conditional use zoning. He said that the County started talking about agricultural support enterprises about seven years ago and there were meetings about how to streamline this process for agricultural enterprises. He said that he will support conditional use zoning. Commissioner Yuhasz said that the Efland sewer project needs to be completed. It has been several months since the last report. He wants regular updates on the progress of this project. A motion was made by Commissioner Yuhasz, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs that the Board receive regular updates on the progress of completion for the Efland sewer, perhaps along with the reports on the state of the reservoir. VOTE: UNANIMOUS