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APPROVED 11!3!2004 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT WORK SESSION OCTOBER 7, 2004 7:30 p.m. The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Work Session on Thursday, October 7, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Margaret Brown and Alice M. Gordon COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Stephen Halkiatis and Moses Carey, Jr. COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill, Sean Borhanian COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr. and Deputy Clerk to the Board David Hunt (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE Chair Jacobs said that Commissioner Carey was unable to attend because of a family emergency and Commissioner Halkiotis was out of town. 1. Reconfirmation of BOCC Goals -priorities anchoring the Land Use Element Update Craig Benedict said that this meeting was based on an August 23rd joint meeting with the Planning Board about the progress of outreach with the Land Use Plan Element Update. He would like to discuss what was learned through the public outreach and haw to achieve some of the goals. He briefly went over the agenda. He introduced the Planning Board members in attendance: Sam Lasris, Craufurd Goodwin, Brian Dobbins, and Renee Price. He made reference to pages 15 and 16, which is the list of BOCC adopted goals. Part of the land use plan will be addressing some of these goals. Some of these goals include growth and development impacts analysis, natural resources, rural character, sustainability, transfer of development rights, water resource quantity and quality, and watershed protection. He explained a land use plan, which is a development pattern to guide growth. He showed a map with designations far rural, municipal and extraterritorial jurisdictions, and urban areas. The purpose of the plan is to define what rural development and urban development will look like in the designated areas.