Agenda - 05-22-1989 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

adoption of a county-wide land use plan. Between January, 1979 and February, 1981, each of the Advisory Councils held regular meetings staffed by the Planning Department. Over 75 such meetings were held. The Council members discussed planning issues and, out of the issues defined, seventeen goals were eventually drafted. These goals were reviewed by the Planning Board and adopted by the Boatd of Commissioners in February, 1980. During this same time, the Planning Department developed base maps and carried out the necessary technical studies on population, existing land use and natural conditions among other planning elements. The Advisory Councils developed preliminary or sketch land use plans for their individual townships based on their own knowledge of their Townships and the information that the planning staff had gathered. These plans were reviewed by the Planning Board and Joint Public Meeting of the Planning Board and Joint Public Meeting of the Planing Board and Board of Commissioners was held in August, 1979 to receive public input on these plans. After the Joint Public Meeting the Advisory Councils worked at further refining the individual township plans. This work was completed in February, 1981, at which time the Planning Board began review of the Plan. The Board of Commissioners also held several work sessions at which planning staff explained the details of the Plan. Throughout this process two areas of land use planning were of special concern to the Board of Commissioners: agricultural preservation and water resources protection. In 1979 the Commissioners created two task forces composed of people from across the County with expertise or special interest in these areas to study the issues involved and report to the Board on their finding and recommendations. The results of their work was to feed into the Land Use Plan as supporting information. The Water Resources Task Force and the Agricultural Task Force met for two years following their appointment by the Board of Commissioners in 1979. Their efforts + resulted in two task force reports: The Water Resource Task Force Report, completed in May, 1981, and To Preserve Our Farms: Final Report of the Orange County Agricultural Task Force, completed in June, 1981. The Board of Commissioners adopted the Agricultural Task Force Final Report on September 15, 1981 and directed that it be used as the "framework" for the implementation activities of the Advisory Board referred to in the Report. During the same period of time when the Task Forces' were completing their reports, the work on the Land Use Plan was also in its final stages. The Proposed Land Use Plan for Orange County was completed in May, 1981. Joint Public Hearings on the Proposed Land Use Plan were held by the Board of Commissioners and the Planning Board on June 4 and July 7, 1982. At that hearing public input was also received on the proposed Zoning Ordinance to be enforced in Chapel Hill, Bingham, Hillsborough, and Eno Townships. The Planning Board recommended adoption of the Proposed Land Use Plan