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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August 17 , 1993 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # v _c <br /> SUBJECT: SEPTEMBER 30 ASSEMBLY OF GOVERNMENTS MEETING: <br /> FUNDING FOR GROWTH MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: YES )( NO <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Planning Director Memo Dave Stancil, Extension 2590 <br /> Memo from Chapel Hill <br /> Town Councilwoman Brown TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Draft Brochure Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the allocation of $500 for a <br /> County/Town/UNC growth management <br /> conference which would be conducted as <br /> part of the Assembly of Governments <br /> meeting on September 30, 1993. <br /> BACKGROUND: In June of this year an ad hoc committee <br /> of elected officials, staff and interested <br /> citizens met to consider the possibility <br /> of holding a growth management conference <br /> in the fall of this year to bring together <br /> representatives and citizens from the <br /> County, Towns and UNC to discuss the <br /> direction of growth in the County and <br /> potential for a common vision among the <br /> various jurisdictions of this growth. The <br /> ad hoc committee is chaired by <br /> Councilwoman Joyce Brown of Chapel Hill, <br /> and includes County Commissioner <br /> Alice Gordon, Carrboro Mayor Eleanor <br /> Kinnaird, Chapel Hill Town Manager Cal <br /> Horton and UNC professor of City and <br /> Regional Planning David Brower. <br /> One of the country's foremost experts in <br /> the field of growth management and <br /> adequate public facilities planning is Dr. <br /> John DeGrove from Florida Atlantic <br /> University. Dr. DeGrove was in the <br /> vanguard of statewide comprehensive <br /> planning in Florida and helped draft the <br />