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0 RANGE C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date January 22, 1991 SUBJECT: NEOTRADITIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING WORKSESSION DEPARTMENT: PLANNING ATTACHMENT(S): * - Related News Articles 1 Action A enda Item #Vc PUBLIC HEARING Yes _x —No INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Stancil, Extension 2590 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Durham - 688 -7331 Mebane - 227 -2031 Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 PURPOSE: To inform the board of a joint public- private worksession to be held on February 21, 1991. BACKGROUND: Over the past few years, a significant national trend toward designing new communities with an eye to traditional features (such as a town square, pedestrian - -scale services and a mixture of commercial and residential development) has occurred. This type of "neotraditional" planning has since been the subject of articles in publications as diverse as Newsweek to professional design journals. The principal proponent of this type of design concept is world - renowned Miami architect Andres Duany. In designing new communities such as Seaside, Florida - which incorporates strict design standards and "small -town feel" into an award- winning community - Duany, along with his wife and fellow architect Elizabeth Plater - Zyberk, have been in great demand as dynamic speakers for local governments and private sector interests across the country. In late 1990, Livy Ludington of the Rural Character Study Committee led an effort to bring Duany to Orange County for a day -long seminar with elected officials of the Joint Planning Area governments and other public and private sector community leaders. With assistance from the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Orange County, and the Triangle J