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22 WRITTEN C®MN.~NT #2 -Allan Rosen 1VIElVI® To: Orange County Planning and Element Lead Advisory Board Members From: Allan Rosen, The Village Project Board of Directors and Acting Chair, the Orange County Comprehensive Plan Coalition CC: Roger Waldon, Clarion Associates; Comprehensive Plan Update Project Management Team Date: January 28, 2008 Re: Public Comment on the Comprehensive Plan Update I'm Allan Rosen, a 15-year resident of Orange County. I live near the Eno Economic Development District and served on the county's Affordable Housing Advisory Board for five years. On behalf of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan Coalition I'd like to thank you for scheduling this session. The coalition represents a broad cross section of community stakeholders. Presently we have eight member organizations. Representatives from all eight are here with me. Tonight, I'll make some remarks about the coalition's Statement on Objectives (CSO) for the Comprehensive Plan Update (CPU). Last Friday the statement was mailed to each planning and advisory board member. Our hope is that these boards will take our recommendations into account as they draft the CPU. The CSO includes a goal statement and objectives for the eight plan elements. There are 44 objectives in all, including two for a new category we suggest be included in the CPU, "Performance Indicators and Review". Our CSO is subject to change. After we review the draft CPU this spring, we'll have further comments. And we are likely to bring forward more detailed and/or new recommendations as we study this issue more. Now, I'd like to point out that the CSO is influenced by three criteria* which the coalition will use to evaluate the CPU. Posed as questions, the three criteria are ® Will the CPU result in a future where "envirorunental conservation, energy efficiency, . affordable housing, social equity, a tlu-iving economy, regional agricultural production and 3of16