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' 4 rJ i P acu... _ „.. ..., R. ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DERA.RTATENT MrX SEOROUGs NORTH CAROLINA 27w:8 'b�gn19 �b u .jerik ¢sr ti�°n MEMORANDUM TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners FROM: Planning Department DATE: February 5, 1979 SUBJECT: Progress Report on 1979-1980 Work Program A detailed work program has not yet been prepared for the 1979-1980 Work Program that will be based on the following work priorities: 1. Immediately extend zoning into Bingham Township along N. C. 54 using our present zoning ordinance 2. Complete a County Land Use Plan 3. Revise the existing zoning ordinance 4. Extend the revised zoning ordinance into Bingham, Hillsborough and Cheeks Township, in that order of priority, 5. Develop an intergovernmental long range planning council 6. Develop a watershed protection and water resource policy and plan LAND USE PLAN Enclosed is a draft of a tentative schedule of activities to implement the above work priorities. The schedule can be met, if no other major work activities intervene. The heart of the schedule is continued work on revision of the zoning ordinance throughtout 1979-1980 that is keyed in and directly related to progress on :the completion, of a land use plan. All existing land use plans in and for Orange County will be compiled into a document to be published in April to May. Based on this and the Preliminary Land Use Goals (scheduled for March) the first Sketch or Preliminary Land Use Plan itself will be in roughdraft form by August or September. After the Sketch Plan is published and has been reviewed, the second Growth Options Conference could be held, possibly in September to November. There- after, the final Land Use Plan would be prepared, possibly for completion in early spring, 1980.