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<br />Break Out Session Notes And Comments: <br />LAND USE ELEMENT <br />® How do we achieve mixed uses in transition areas and EDD's? <br />® Workshops/charettes for small areas where development will go. <br />® Importance of projects even if you live in a municipality. <br />® Preserving farmland in LUE? <br />® Explore innovative wastewater treatment. <br />® Transit -oriented development <br />® Create administrative systems and mechanisms to expedite desirable development. <br />RECREATION AND PARKS <br />® School facilities, such as tennis courts, should be open to the public. <br />Regional and local connectivity between parks and school facilities. <br />® Rural Ways (for biking, hiking, walking) such as linear paths and critical recreation for <br />Orange County. Use donated orpurchased easements. <br />TRASNPORTATION <br />Rural Ways -pedestrian and biking connectivity through easements. <br />PROCESS <br />® How do we keep track of the potential costs of the principles that we might adopt? <br />HOUSING <br />Please resist the urge to accept payments in lieu of affordability if/when development set- <br />asides apply and developers don't want to comply. We need the units. Instead work with <br />non-profit developers during the applicant processes. to determine innovative, high- <br />demand ways to make set-aside compliance meet needs. <br />® Don't reduce language around affordable housing to "workforce" housing: <br />® Smaller houses. Recommended a book, "Tin Houses." There ought to be a way in <br />Orange County to have smaller Houses. Current building practices set up to support <br />corporations. <br />® Recommendation to look on-line for Seattle co-housing information. <br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT <br />® Balance county development by developing a commercial sector that provides a third or <br />more of county revenue. <br />® Linlc between economic development, population growth, etc. this also includes planning <br />for schools and water supplies. <br />® Expedite desirable commercial and light industrial projects. <br />® Create lab and commercial space for UNC ideas to become businesses. <br />4of4 <br />