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2 <br />Housing Advisory Board, Agricultural Preservation Board, Commission for the Environment, <br />Economic Development Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, Orange Unified <br />Transportation Board, Planning Board, and Recreation and Parks Advisory Council. Input has <br />been provided by additional County advisory boards as well as the public. <br />General Contents <br />The Draft Comprehensive Plan includes the following Elements: <br />® County Profile (Data) <br />® Economic Development <br />® Housing <br />® Land Use - <br />® Natural and Cultural Systems <br />® Parks and Recreation <br />Services (Utilities) and Community <br />Facilities <br />a Transportation <br />Recommendations are also provided in the draft Comprehensive Plan that addresses the <br />administration, -implementation, and monitoring of the Plan that will need to take place following <br />its adoption. <br />There are no major changes to existing/current policy directions incorporated into the draft Plan: <br />Furthermore, the draft plan does not include specific implementation recommendations; work <br />on those will start once this Plan with its framework of goals, objectives, and linkages is <br />adopted. This Plan update effort is designed to establish a common data base, to pull together <br />existing ideas and information that heretofore have been scattered among a series of topic- <br />specific plans and documents, and to set the stage for subsequent community discussions <br />about implementation strategies. - <br />Public Input and Access to Materials <br />In addition to numerous citizen comprised County advisory board meetings, during Phase II of <br />the update process, the County conducted public input meetings on January 28t", April 3rd, April <br />9t".and April 23rd. Several public input opportunities were also provided during Phase I. <br />All .key documents that have been produced to date have been posted on the County's website. <br />Following is the address to the Comprehensive Plan Update Webpage and a partial listing of <br />documents that can be found there: http://www.co.orange.nc.us/planning/compre_cpupdate.asp <br />® Description of Process for updating the Plan and Timetable <br />® Brochure describing process and meetings <br />® ~BOCC Guiding Principles for the Plan <br />County Profile (data) Element <br />® Public Input Meeting Summaries <br />® March 5, 2008 First Draft Comprehensive Plan <br />® Pudic Hearing ®raft Comprehensive Plan* (posted May 7, 2008) <br />® 1981 Land Use Plan <br />*For anyone wishing to see the differences between the First Draft Comprehensive Plan <br />(March 5th) and the Public Hearing Draft, a version is provided on the website referenced <br />above that tracks the changes. <br />