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O R A N G E C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date A ril 17 1990 SUBJECT: RURAL CHARACTER STUDY UPDATE DEPARTMENT: PLANNING ATTACHMENT(S): * - Memorandum from Rural Character Study Committee Chair 1 Action Agenda Item # IV PUBLIC HEARING Yes _x —No INFORMATION CONTACT: David Stancil, Ext 2590 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: (To be provided at meeting due Hillsborough - 732 -8181 to RCSC meeting being 4/12/90 Durham - 688 -7331 and 4/13/90 being holiday.) Mebane - 227 -2031 Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 PURPOSE: To provide the Board with an report from the Rural Character Study Committee. This report serves as a follow -up to the Committee's March 21 update. BACKGROUND: At the March 21 Commissioners meeting, a delegation from the Rural Character Study Committee (RCSC) presented the Board with an update of their activities in the last six months. This committee of 20 Orange County citizens was appointed in 1988 to study methods of protecting the County's rural character - specifically to address the preservation of natural and visual resources, the protection of agriculture, and the provision of a growth management tool. At the March 21 meeting, the RCSC chairman mentioned to the Board the possibility of delaying public hearing on the proposals by two months, from May 29 to August 27. The reason for this proposed delay was to allow the RCSC to complete and present the Board with a package of County -wide strategies. Currently, the Committee has prepared a set of strategies for the Rural Buffer (minus University Lake watershed) only. A few Commissioners indicated that they understood this concern, but would like to see the May public hearing occur as scheduled, if at all possible. As a result, the Rural Character Study Committee and County Commissioners agreed that the RCSC would take one month to consider the feasibility of the scheduled