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,1 <br />Vision Statement <br />The Orange County Comprehensive Plan Coalition <br />August 6, 2007 <br />In October 2006, the Orange County Board of Commissioners initiated a two-year process to update the county's <br />Comprehensive Plan. This presents a once -in -a- generation opportunity for community stakeholders to come <br />together and provide guidance on how Orange County should grow and change in the future. <br />Coalition members are committed to working together to: <br />• learn more about the county's Comprehensive Plan and help educate the community about its importance, <br />• provide input to the county planning and advisory boards, and especially to the County Commissioners, about <br />our shared priorities for promoting a path to sustainability that balances environmental health, social equity, <br />and economic prosperity, and <br />present a common voice for diverse stakeholders to express our common interests in planning for a future <br />where environmental conservation, resource efficiency, affordable housing, social equity, economic <br />development, preservation of regional agricultural production and transit - ready, walkable, mixed -use, <br />communities are simultaneously realized. <br />Coalition members believe the Update should: <br />• determine where new compact, walkable, mixed -use, transit - supportive growth and development should occur <br />within the county's planning jurisdiction, <br />• make affirmative commitments to providing public sector infrastructure investments to stimulate development <br />that promotes economic prosperity, social equity and environmental health, and <br />• provide a framework such that the future of Orange County will be sustainable, just, and equitable. <br />Sustainability is achieved when stakeholders representing diverse interests work together cooperatively to assure a <br />healthy balance among interdependent social, environmental and economic priorities. Our coalition is committed <br />to ensuring that the County Commissioners include these goals in the updated Comprehensive Plan. <br />- - <br />For more information contact: Allan Rosen, 382 -9483, cpufeedback @gmail.com or Kevin Schwartz, <br />962 -0520, kschwartz @unc.edu <br />Coalition Partners, as of August 23, 2007 <br />Chapel Hill Carrboro Chamber of Commerce Community Action Network <br />EmPOWERment Interfaith Council for Social Service <br />The Village Project Walkable Hillsborough <br />Homebuilders Association of Durham, Orange and Chatham Counties <br />