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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING. BOARD. <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 27, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. D.2 <br />SUBJECT: UPDATE on NC Highway 57 Speedway Area Small Area Plan <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />. Economic Development <br />ATTACHMENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict AICP -Planning Director <br />245-2592 <br />Willie Best ACM and IED -Assistant <br />County Manager, 245-2300 <br />Glenn Bowles AICP, Planner 11, <br />245-2577 <br />PURPOSE: To provide an update on the timeline for presentation of potential implementation <br />methods concerning the NC Highway 57 Speedway Area Small Area Plan. <br />BACKGROUND: At the August 21, 2007 BOCC meeting the Board was asked to approve the <br />final version of the Small Area Plan. As part of staff's continuing effort to move this process <br />forward, work has already commenced on drafting various implementation strategies for review <br />and comment by the BOCC and various advisory boards, most notably the Planning Board and <br />the Economic Development Commission. <br />Staff hopes to provide further updates prior to the November Quarterly Public Hearing. <br />As the Board is already aware, there are six (6) typical steps involved with implementing <br />planning changes. These steps are as follows: <br />1. Small Area Plan Adoption with Recommendations. Staff Comment: This is where we <br />are currently in this process. The adoption of the NC Highway 57 Speedway Area Small <br />Area Plan will allow staff to begin working on implementing language for presentation at <br />a future BOCC Quarterly Public Hearing. <br />2. Land Use Plan Text. Staff Comment. Staff anticipates amending portions of the <br />existing Land Use Plan text to reference the creation of a rural economic development <br />area as recommended by the Highway 57 Speedway Area Small Area Plan Task Force. <br />3. Land Use Plan Map Staff Comment. Staff anticipates amending the existing Land Use <br />. Element Map to identify the rural economic development area along Highway 57 as <br />referenced within the adopted Small Area Plan. <br />