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011 <br /> INTRODUCTION <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners adopted the <br /> current Land Use Plan for the County in September 1981 . As <br /> part of the ongoing process of refining the Land Use Plan it <br /> was intended that specific portions of the county would be <br /> subject to further scrutiny and study by the Planning Staff <br /> and Planning Board in the form of Area Studies. A number of <br /> Area Studies have been included in past Planning Department <br /> work programs and the Little River Township Plan coincides <br /> with a five year plan update schedule specified by the <br /> Commissioners in 1981 . <br /> Considerable effort has been made in inform and involve <br /> as many of the Township ' s residents as possible, as well as <br /> other interested individuals and groups, in the process of <br /> the Plan update. The process formally began with the <br /> reactivation of Township Advisory Councils (TACs) on a <br /> county-wide basis in March 1986. Since that time eleven TAC <br /> and public information meetings have been held in Little <br /> River Township dealing with the Plan update and related <br /> issues. <br /> The Planning Department has compiled and analyzed data <br /> on soils, topography, hydrology, land use, and transportation <br /> in the study area. This information, in part, provides the <br /> base for identifying planning issues an concerns in the area. <br /> The overriding concern is growth, not Just in the study area, <br /> but also in adjacent areas to the south and east. The <br /> potential impacts of this growth on the man-made and natural <br /> environment are presented in the following narrative which, <br /> in turn, is followed by the text of the proposed plan. <br /> 3.7-1 <br />