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Chair Jacobs said that the point of this exercise is to simplify things for farmers. 2. Land Use Element - Oranae County Comprehensive Plan Craig Benedict distributed a handout on the progress of the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element outreach. Last Friday they had an opportunity to do another presentation of the outreach program. The Planning Board had a special meeting to try and organize and reformat the presentation. The first part of the outreach program will be direct mailings to interested parties and boards and committees related to this process. There will also be announcements at various televised meetings as well as the newspapers. There will be a press release to the newspapers to talk about the upcoming process. They have also spoken with the people in the community to come up with suitable dates for the presentations. The presentation has changed a lot over the last year. Atone point, there was a large PowerPoint portion, and now it is more of an open house with different stations that talk about the different issues. There are also videotapes and audiotapes of the presentation. Over the next few months, they will visit the townships and compile all the written comments from the public. There will be public hearings in August and November. Commissioner Gordon asked what they had decided to do about advertising for the meetings. Craig Benedict said that there would be notices in the newspaper explaining the land use plan and advertising the meetings. Commissioner Gordon said that if there is just a notice in the newspaper then she wonders if anyone will show up. She asked what else would be done. Craig Benedict said that they have invited some community leaders from different parts of the County and they have all expressed interest in the meetings. He said that this interest from the leaders would create word of mouth. They will also advertise to different clubs, social groups, and homeowners associations. Commissioner Gordon asked if there was a budget for the mailings and Craig Benedict said yes. Next year there will be a need for a large mailing budget as they move towards implementation. Chair Jacobs suggested putting up signs in local stores at the different townships. He suggested looking at the mailing list for the Agricultural Summit. Commissioner Gordon suggested mailing to the members of the Boards and Commissions representing the different townships. John Link said that the staff has done a good job of eliminating acronyms. However, on page 14, TDR is still in there as opposed to spelling it out. He asked about the term "rural character." He asked if it was rural characteristics. He said that this term means different things to different people.