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ORANGE COUNTY <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 5, 2013 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 7 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Planning Board Annual Report / Work Plan for County Commissioners’ Annual <br />Planning Retreat <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Annual Report / Work Plan Form <br /> <br /> <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Craig Benedict, 245-2592 <br /> Perdita Holtz, 245-2578 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: Provide an annual report and work plan input to the Board of County <br />Commissioners (BOCC) in preparation for its annual planning retreat. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: Each year the County Clerk’s Office collects information from each of the <br />County’s advisory boards to prepare a report for the annual BOCC planning retreat in January. <br />The annual report informs the BOCC of the past year’s activities of advisory <br />boards/commissions, as well as proposed activities for the upcoming year. <br /> <br />Staff and advisory boards are asked to collaborate to complete the form that has been provided <br />by the Clerk’s Office and return by December 5. Proposed activities are to be consistent with <br />the goals of the BOCC. <br /> <br />The Annual Report / Work Plan form (Attachment 1) has been completed by staff for Planning <br />Board review and comment. Some topics of prime interest include: <br /> <br />1. Updates to housing and senior housing facilities to address new concepts. <br />2. Update a few zoning categories to address trends in office, research and development, and <br />applied manufacturing. <br />3. Land use protection of economic development zones by monitoring negative land use <br />activities or regulating incompatible land uses. <br /> <br />These topics are accented on the final two pages of Attachment 1. <br /> <br />The Planning Board is involved with approximately 40 - 60% of the work Planning Department <br />staff is responsible for (the percentage varies by year, depending on specific work being <br />completed in a given year). For the upcoming year, Planning staff will be working on some <br />items for which other advisory boards have primary responsibility. Examples of these tasks are <br />transit issues, transportation planning, and economic development issues (not related to the <br />39