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13 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />NORTH CAROLINA <br />ORANGE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ADA PARATRANSIT PLAN <br />vehicles that may be available to provide complementary ADA service independent of fixed - <br />route deviation that also provide other demand response services are also ADA - accessible <br />and equipped with lifts. These vehicles will be used to provide the service exerting no <br />additional demands for capital expenses on the system than what already exists. <br />Description of Public Participation Process Used to Develop Plan: <br />After the development of a draft of the plan, a 30 -day public comment period was opened <br />between February 3, 2015, and March 5, 2015, for members of the public to submit <br />comments in response to the draft. A public meeting for the draft plan was held February <br />12, 2015, by Orange County transportation planning staff, at which a presentation of the <br />draft plan was provided and public attendees were given an opportunity to ask questions <br />and comment. A subsequent public hearing for the draft plan was held March 17, 2015, <br />before the Orange County Board of Commissioners, at which public attendees were given <br />the opportunity to comment on the draft plan before its adoption by the Board. <br />Notices for the 30 -day public comment period, public meeting and public hearing were <br />published in the local paper, visibly posted on all OPT vehicles, and posted on the OPT <br />website. Notices for the public comment period, public meeting and public hearing were <br />also distributed to the following agencies having a potential interest in the plan and its <br />implementation- <br />1 ) The Orange County Department of Social Services; <br />2) The Orange County Department on Aging; <br />3) The Orange County Department of Housing, Human Rights, and Community <br />Development; <br />4) Alliance of Disability Advocates; and <br />5) Project Compassion. <br />The public participation notice published in the local paper, on the OPT website and within <br />the OPT vehicles is provided as Exhibit 10. No public comments were received in response <br />to the draft plan, and no significant issues with the draft plan's effect on ADA paratransit <br />service in OPT's ADA paratransit service area were raised. <br />11 <br />