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zs UDO Assistance ~ Orange County, North Carolina comprehensive plans. Language and standards must be clear and precise. While citizen participation is important, it tends to be more focused than with most comprehensive plan projects, with more emphasis on technical review rather than on numerous neighborhood meetings. Our experience suggests that it is well worth the time for a community to produce and discuss a written assessment of existing development regulations before drafting revisions to those regulations, especially given the need to consider and implement policy recommendations from the community's recent adopted plans. We therefore applaud Orange County's decision to initiate its consideration of UDO revisions with this essential first step -preparation of an Annotated Outline =one that we routinely incorporate into every code revision project we undertake. Based on our experience in drafting development codes, we have developed a preliminary scope of services that we believe will enhance the County's ongoing work to update these regulations. We also offer here, in addition. to a 1Sroposed scope of work, a series of options for subsequent work that would enhance the usability of the new regulations. We are flexible and, if selected to do the work, would be pleased to work with Orange County in making any adjustments to the scope Orange County believes appropriate. The preliminary scope includes four basic tasks, which are set forth below. TASK 1 • INITIATION, GRAPt11CS AND ILLUSTILATIONS After reviewing all relevant ordinances, plans, and other related documents; Clarion will meet with planning staff and other county staff as appropriate, to discuss overall project goals, and discuss roles. As part of these initial meetings, Clarion will offer examples of graphics, illustrations, and formatting used in other ordinance projects to determine Orange County's preferences. The graphic representations/illustrations will serve as practical examples of the development standards to be contained within the new UDO. TASK 2: ASSIST WITIi ILE-PACKAGING ItEfiLAT10NS Orange County staff has been and wilt continue working to refresh Orange County's development. regulations. This UDO project. s_ not in_tended__t_o be a_fu1~._re-write of all regulations, but rather a re-packaging of regulations in a more organized, contemporary, user- friendly format. As part of this re-packaging, there will be adjustments made to particular regulations that are out-of-date or inadequate to meet current goals and community standards.