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Craig Benedict said all of these products were a part of the Small Area Plan process and were <br /> brought about by collaboration between the Board of County Commissioners, the Orange <br /> County Planning Board and others. He said this was just an overview of initiatives that were <br /> brought forward last year to the Commissioners as part of the planning board's work plan. He <br /> said the Planning Board has had many new members over the past three years and though they <br /> adopted the UDO, since then, they have had a series of UDO amendments come forth and will <br /> now examine certain parts of those UDO plans in Phase II. <br /> 3) Onqoinq Planninq Initiatives (in pipeline) <br /> Economic Development Uses and Processes (Craig Benedict) <br /> Craig Benedict said Orange County passed the sales tax in 2012 and some of this funding is <br /> going toward economic development. Craig Benedict said they will be bringing forth some <br /> amendments next year in reference to SAPFO (as relates to a recent court case in another <br /> county) and may be tweaking it a bit. They have some projects in the pipeline already, and in <br /> order to plan ahead, they wanted to meet with Board of County Commissioners and see what <br /> their priorities were. <br /> Craig Benedict said when they created the UDO and Comprehensive Plan, there were some <br /> people that wanted to change everything at that point but staff said that this would come in time. <br /> The Planning Department has begun to implement some of these suggestions from those two <br /> processes now. <br /> 4) Comprehensive Plan, UDO Implementation Bridqe <br /> a. Planning Board Prioritization (Larry Wright, Pete Hallenbeck) <br /> Larry Wright said this planning board is a group of talented individuals with subject area <br /> expertise and he said he has taken great pleasure to see new members come on board and <br /> participate in this process. <br /> Pete Hallenbeck, Planning Board Vice Chair, said the UDO was supposed to be two phases <br /> and phase two was going to be everything they wanted to change from phase one, which will be <br /> the UDO implementation bridge. He said Phase 2 does not imply that there is an end to this <br /> process but will be constantly changing. <br /> Pete Hallenbeck said the planning board needs to figure out how to prioritize their list of projects <br /> and he said what drives it is to use the Planning staffs' knowledge and experience and utilize <br /> individual board members' areas of expertise in certain areas; and to be responsive to <br /> suggestions and guidance from Board of County Commissioners and other advisory boards. <br /> He said they will have planning board members look at the implementation bridge and come up <br /> with suggestions and then work with planning staff to figure out the order of their list of <br /> priorities. The list is not the just the "good stuff" but the procedures they plan to use for all that <br /> is coming at them and revise and prepare them and the information for what may be coming <br /> next. <br /> Chair Pelissier said it is great idea to coordinate with other advisory boards and to look at other <br /> boards' priorities and work plans to help inform them and the process. <br /> Commissioner Foushee said she agreed that this is a process that does not end and with the <br /> different phases, and she appreciated Mr. Hallenbeck's acknowledgement of this. <br />