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Chapter 6: Natural and Cultural Systems Element <br /> decades to gather data, explore solutions, and implement actions to <br /> protect precious surface and ground water resources. The County can <br /> serve as the coordinator of water resource planning efforts; creating a <br /> comprehensive approach that addresses watershed planning at the <br /> regional, local, and site levels. <br /> 6.5. LINKS TO OTHER ELEMENTS <br /> Natural and Cultural Systems are interconnected to economic development, <br /> housing, transportation, park and recreation facilities, and community services <br /> planning. Linkages between specific natural and cultural systems goals and <br /> objectives have been identified in this element. The following summarizes the <br /> objectives from other Elements that are linked with natural and cultural systems <br /> objectives. <br /> ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT <br /> ObLctive ED-1.1: <br /> Focus public education efforts on sustainability issues, looking at the <br /> social, economic and environmental contributions of local businesses. <br /> Objective ED-1.7: <br /> Enhance Orange County's tourist industry. <br /> Objective ED-4.1: <br /> Enhance historic character by supporting organizations' efforts to <br /> preserve, promote, and maintain historic structures, and identify <br /> Orange County policies that may be in conflict with these efforts. <br /> Objective ED-4.4: <br /> Enhance rural and agricultural community character by supporting <br /> local agriculture markets, supporting complementary conservation and <br /> management tools, and considering tools to make farming more <br /> profitable. <br /> HOUSING <br /> Obiective H-3.6: <br /> Work within the Orange County government system to identify and <br /> resolve existing policies which may be at odds with historic <br /> preservation goals, green building approaches, and workforce and <br /> affordable housing efforts. <br /> LAND USE <br /> Objective LU-2.2: <br /> Continue to protect valuable resource land such as productive <br /> agricultural acreage, managed forest areas, natural areas, historic sites <br /> and properties, and potential reservoir sites through the County's <br /> Lands Legacy Program, and by directing incompatible development <br /> away from these areas through land use and zoning policies and <br /> regulations. <br /> Objective LU-2.3: <br /> Require non-residential and higher-density residential developments <br /> within Transition Areas to use Best Management Practices (BMP's) for <br /> 0ra+W CauntyC&wtpreh +v, ve,Plaw Page 6-94 <br />