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5 Comprehensive Plan Update. Information needs to be available for people to have input - that's what tonight's meeting is about. People have a lot of ideas, wishes, and desires for Orange County. Some of those may fit the format of goals and objectives and others may be too specific for the plan 'at this stage. We are currently collecting ideas for implementation, but they may not go into the plan right now. The target is to get the County Commissioners to adopt the new Comprehensive Plan and as implementation measures are addressed, there will be a "whole container of great ideas to accomplish these goals." Public Comments: (Each bullet point indicates a new speaker's comments) ® 1) Sustainability overall importance to Orange County; 2) Buckhorn development and the "multiplier" effects on the economy, schools, housing, taxes - 20% increase; 3) Importance of railways for dense walkable communities. Orange County Comprehensive Plan Coalition includes 8 different organizations that have developed ideas for the Comprehensive Plan. 1) Orange County's Comprehensive Plan needs to reflect a "coherent whole;" 2) Can we get all parts of Sustainability; 3) Clearly identify where nodes for development will be specified and accommodate population demand; 5) Affirmative public commitments to infrastructure to achieve plans; 5) Mechanism to align capital budget with Comprehensive Plan; 6) Small areas plans and major developments are in progress and can be assessed against Comprehensive Plan goals. ® Specific objectives needed to determine common ideas. 1) Forms of development-land use and transportation need to be compact; 2) Maintain agricultural land and watersheds; 3) Support public transportation; 4) Support economic/mixes use compact form development; 5) Support local businesses. Cluster developments like Meadowmont and Southern Village have had problems but are examples that are better than sprawl. Would like to see snore about TDR strategy in the Comprehensive Plan. ® Concerned about schools. If they consume most of the County's budget why are they not addressed in greater detail in the Comprehensive Plan? No one from the school system is here tonight. a 1) Shared values needed; 2) Contradictions and conflicts exist in Planning and community goals such as environmentalism and housing; Provided example of a "green shelter" project; 3)Non-profit community shares the goals of the larger conununity; Suggested County have more outreach into non-profit community for input; 4) Tax Burden should be shared by .businesses and shift off private residences; 5) Social services should strive fora `quality of place' with diverse economic opportunities; 6) Provide water/sewer to clustered nodes. ® 1) Planning Department should have a concise expedited approval process; 2) Shift tax burden to business and off of personal property. ® 1) Commercial/Residential tax base out of balance in county; 2) Look aggressively at places in the county for economic development transition areas -such as I-85/40 corridor 3) Rethink conventional wisdom about allowing Public W/S in to watershed critical areas; 4) Sustainability ® 1) Water critical areas from 7-mile creek need to be removed to allow economic development to occur. 2of4