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11 <br />11) BOCC Principle #8 <br />What IS community character? Needs better definition. <br />12) Overarching Goal for Sustainability <br />How does this plan address our need to change? <br />How are we changing the way we live as consumers of our natural <br />resources that will bring our consumption levels to levels that are equitable <br />with other people living on this planet? <br />How are we dealing with global warming, peak oil, local food systems, <br />teaching our children to be other than voracious consumers? <br />Farmers in our future- how do we preserve our operating farms from going <br />out of business? When they close the cost of land and necessary <br />equipment is prohibitive to a new farmer starting up. <br />We need Educational Farms that teach our children the basic skills they <br />(or anyone) will need to have to manage our farms in the future. All <br />children can do some form of community service for example where they <br />can help and at the same time learn about production of food. <br />Farmers need apprentices to help farming (harvesting, planting) there is a <br />large movement of young people 18 -30 years old, who would like to live <br />on a farm and learn. They will need housing and the kind of housing they <br />want is off the grid, alternative to conventional methods that are not <br />currently permitted (straw bale, rammed earth, log, local material, rock <br />foundations). They don't buy into 30 -year mortgages and the farmer can't <br />afford that kind of housing. If the house rots back into the earth if no one <br />lives there at some point why should there be a permit? <br />Staff note: Although relationships were identified between and /or among goals, <br />advisory board members identified no conflicting goals. Advisory board <br />members also found that all draft goals related to at least one of the BOCC <br />Guiding Principles and all Principles were addressed by multiple goals. <br />