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BOARD OF ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BOCC) <br />GOALS — 2015 UPDATE <br />FOR DISCUSSIONS PURPOSES <br />39 <br />GOALS/PRIORITIES <br />ONGOING EFFORTS <br />SPECIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS <br />• Completed the Parks and Recreation <br />Master Plan 2030 (adopted 11/18/14), <br />consistent with the objectives identified in <br />the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. <br />Priority 3: Develop economic plans for <br />Economic Development <br />Economic Development <br />three (3) districts. <br />• Continue to generate business investment <br />• Multiple on -site visits were made by <br />inquiries in the County's 3 business districts <br />Fortune 1000 companies seeking a <br />along the interstate. <br />location, recommended by the State of <br />• Oversee the Capital Investment Plan (CIP) <br />North Carolina's industrial recruiting staff, <br />projects that are underway to improve the <br />and key site selection consultants that have <br />availability and reach of present utilities in <br />toured the Economic Development <br />designated economic development land use <br />Districts' commercial and industrial <br />areas. <br />properties. <br />• The Orange County Economic Development <br />• The Buckhorn Economic Development <br />office will work diligently to market the <br />District has received significant <br />County's three Economic Development <br />improvement in this area's zoning <br />Districts to prospective investors. <br />amendments encompassing several <br />hundred acres of land, the actual <br />completion of over $4 million in water and <br />sewer line infrastructure (funded by Article <br />46's quarter cent sales tax for economic <br />development). <br />• Coordinated infrastructure partnership <br />between the County and the City of <br />Mebane linking these utility achievements <br />and joint industrial recruitment efforts, and <br />new road work installed by the N.C. <br />Department of Transportation. <br />• This $4 million project, initiated in late <br />2012, has created a series of `backbone' <br />sewer and water systems to service or <br />augment over 1,000 acres of economic <br />development lands, stretching from the <br />