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Margaret Hauth said most of their annexations have been voluntary. Commissioner Rich asked for an explanation of what it means to amend boundaries. Margaret Hauth said they will be moving some residents into their ETJ and some out of the ETJ and back into the county, which involves re-zoning for each of those property owners. She said that those property owners have to be notified and there is a process of working through that change with them. She said that as properties are moved from one jurisdiction to another, it has to be moved from one zoning category to another. Commissioner Rich asked how many people would be affected. Margaret Hauth said it is more than a few but not an extraordinary number. She used a map to point out areas that will be subject to change. She said there will be 624 acres to be added and 489 acres to go out. Margaret Hauth said their Town Board has to formally approve and adopt the plan and then it will come back to the Board of County Commissioners for consideration, along with the request to amend ETJs in late March or early April. Chair Jacobs asked about public hearings and Margaret Hauth said they will be forthcoming. Town Commissioner Hallman asked if this included the mutual courtesy review process. Margaret Hauth said yes, the courtesy review is already in place and the coordinated planning will go beyond that. b. Central Orange Coordinated Area (COCA) Land Use Plan Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor for Orange County, said the initial step is for the Town to adopt this future land use plan for not only town use areas and ETJ, but also for the areas designated as urbanizing per the interlocal agreement. He referred to orange and blue areas on the map (attachment 1 B). Once this is done the county has the opportunity to adopt the land uses as prescribed by the town, adding land uses for the broader area shown in white on the map being displayed. He said this will then become the joint land use plan for both boards to consider. He said the purpose of the coordinated land use plan is to differentiate and designate those areas that are to remain rural from those that are to have urban services. Tom Altieri presented a draft outline and time table for their review. He referred to the following items on the timeline: 1) March — Town Board will consider its land use plan, and 2) April — County Commissioners will receive this plan as well as the formal outline and timetable for consideration and approval. He said the time period will allow for any negotiations necessary between the town and county. He said they have provided comments from the county on one occasion and the town was very responsive. He said he expects some discussion about the land use in the white areas on the map. There will probably be county outreach at two different times during the process. He said the county and town will need to adopt a plan that both entities can adopt. He said that once this is adopted, the town and county would need to work independently to incorporate the map and land uses into its land use ordinances. He said this is a two step process. The first step is to adopt the land use plan, map, designations and descriptions of the areas. The second step would include subsequent public hearings to implement that plan into the town and county ordinances and ETJs swapped, as mentioned earlier. Commissioner Pelissier asked if there are requirements for this process to notify property owners of the public hearing. Tom Altieri said there would be some requirements and the county has its own requirements outlined in the unified development ordinance. He said that land use plan public hearing notices are advertised in newspapers, sent out via emails to owners on the distribution list. There is no first class mail for these. He said this would be the case for the first hearing to adopt the map and designations. He said that for the second step to formally amend the 2030