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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: January 17, 1995 <br /> Agenda Abstract <br /> Item# V2:4r-fi <br /> SUBJECT: OPEN SPACE DEVELOPMENT DESIGN GUIDEBOOK <br /> DEPARTMENT. Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Yes—X—No <br /> ATTACHMENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Draft Letter of Support Planning Director X2592 <br /> PHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Chapel Hill 967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approval of an approach for preparation of design guidebook for open <br /> space development. <br /> BACKGROUND: In the Fall of 1993, the Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution supporting the <br /> goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Conservation&Management Plan(CCMP) <br /> of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study.During the course of reviewing the CCM?, <br /> the Orange County staff was struck by the consistency between the goals and <br /> objectives of the CCM_? and the adopted goals of the Board of Commissioners, <br /> particularly the promotion of local and regional planning that protects the environment <br /> and allows for economic growth. Orange County's initiatives in areas of historic <br /> preservation, farmland preservation, watershed protection, rural character/natural <br /> areas preservation, and economic development are examples of such consistency. <br /> Subsequent to the adoption of the resolution of support,the Orange County Planning <br /> Director was asked by Randall Arendt to review and comment on a draft of an open <br /> space development design guidebook prepared for the Sussex County, Delaware <br /> Conservation District. Sussex County encompasses nearly half of the small state as <br /> well as the majority of Delaware's farmland,woodlands,natural areas,beaches,dunes, <br /> and tidal estuaries. From the review of the design guidebook emerged the proposal <br /> outlined below. <br /> PROPOSAL <br /> Simply stated, the proposal suggests that the Natural Lands Trust; e.g., Randall <br /> Arendt,be employed to prepare a design guidebook for open space development using <br /> three counties as case studies in the Albemarle-Pamlico Watershed. The design <br /> guidebook thus prepared would serve as a model -for the other 34 counties in <br /> promoting local planning which protects the environment yet allows for economic <br /> growth.The design guidebook would be organized similar to the Sussex County study: <br /> I I <br />