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IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OVERVIEW Considering the Ordinance was formally adopted by the BOCC in December, 2011, and the large response received from residents pursuant to the August 29, 2012 letter, we must move forward with implementation. This project will take a significant amount of time for staff to work through the county and isolate non - compliance issues, determine corrective action, and work with residents toward correction. Residents must be notified of non - compliance before any action can be taken. It should not be assumed that Orange County will fine residents beginning January 1, 2013 if they have received no notification of non - compliance. The Tax Office plans to use 2013 as an educational opportunity. The goal of the Ordinance is to resolve and preempt safety issues, and the more we are able to educate the public on requirements of the ordinance the more efficient and effective the process will be. Our community partners and residents will be empowered to help us work through this implementation plan. Logistics For consistency, accuracy and ease of awareness, we intend to work through properties within Orange County's jurisdiction by fire district. Such an approach will allow staff to focus on a specific area one at a time, and this can be done in collaboration with the fire chief of the area. We must work with the Orange County Public Information Officer, Carla Banks, local news outlets, fire chiefs, EMS and Tax Office public relations channel to make the public aware of the area under review. This should help relieve stress for those in fear of non - compliance. Priorities /Implementation The top priority of implementation is to resolve 911 issues as identified by EMS and fire chiefs. Once we begin working through a fire district, correcting /assigning road names are the top priority. A second priority is identification of structures once the correct road name is verified or assigned. Residents should place identifying address numbers of three inches or greater with contrasting background at the road and the structure. This would happen after the Tax Office notifies affected residents of a new road name or an address out of sequence. Once residents have the correct information, proper signage should be placed in accordance with the Ordinance. For those that have a permissible road name and do not have an address out of sequence, it is just as important that we notify them of such as this will help relieve anxiety on their part. We plan to communicate in some form with every single resident under the jurisdiction of this Ordinance, whether it be to confirm their compliance to help them work through non - compliance issues. Since we plan to use 2013 as an opportunity to educate and empower the residents and our community partners, we will begin notifying residents of non - compliance in January, 2014. This will permit time for us to work with emergency responders to pinpoint the most troubled fire districts and begin reviewing the first fire district for non - compliance and safety issues. Only after January, 2014 will residents be notified of a non - compliance issue. M