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our regulations into a text, and then in some cases not followed through with any zoning changes, and in some cases followed through with zoning changes. Commissioner Carey: I want to give you the wordsmith for 5-25, and the discussion about demographics. The sentence that says, "It should be noted that minority populations are often undercounted during Census periods," is true. That's okay. But the next one says, "If this is true." I think that ought to be stated more in the affirrnmtive, such as "Since this was the case in the 2000 Census." Chair Jacobs: On 5-30, we had this discussion about the poverty rate once before. I don't remember the answer. I think the answer was this does include students at UNC, and if it does, it's not an accurate number. Commissioner Gordon: They may not have the data without students, but you could find out whether it included students. Laura Blackmon: I think the census data does include students. Chair Jacobs: Then let's just say that. I don't want to presume that it does, but if it does and you can't separate them out, then we should indicate it. In a county where 1/5 of the population is college students, it's not an insignificant number. Craig Benedict: A national study that had the most disparate income levels between the students and the high-income put Orange County as one of the top four in the nation because of the students, and then an area just north of near Whitfield Road showed it really high. Chair Jacobs: On page 5-32, line 4, I think it should say, "There are, however, positive signs of community and private commitments to land and watershed preservation." It's not just the government. Private people actually do protect land. ADdunderT[aDSpDrt@tiVnTrendo. it says, "In 2004, Orange County was declared a 'non-attainment' area." It was part of a non-attainment area, was it not? Commissioner Gordon: Also, for some it is now a maintenance area. Just for the transportation trends, there is some brand new data coming from the Durham-Chapel Hill- C|arrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization, and this could be updated. There is just a lot of information that's been gathered. Karen Lincoln knows where that is. /\ctua||y, all of the information might not be complete until the end of June or beginning of July, but the Long- Range Transportation Plan for 2035 has a lot of data, and I actually think the data you need is probably done. Anyway, if you look in the meeting for tomorrow, the Long-Range Transportation Plan, Item 10, in the agenda abstract you can see there's a table that tells you what's included and that Item 10 tells a lot of information that's available now. Chair Jacobs: Page 5-35, the bullets starting on line 19, the County doesn't need to develop policies to encourage green building practices because we already have them. The County may need to build upon policies to encourage green building practices. We already have them as part of the Environmental Responsibility Goal. And then I would just add, "creating incentives for private developers to use more environmentally friendly construction and demolition techniques." Because we did talk about deconstruction, and I noted a number of places where it fits.