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14 702 Craig Benedict: And what we do if there’s comments that come from the public, in the future public hearing on 703 September 12th the Commissioners can say, “ Craig and Staff, can you provide a report about how this would be 704 accomplished”. It doesn’t mean they’d want us to proceed or not, and to come up with what departments are 705 involved, what maps have to change, and we give that back to them on what we call a future amendment outline. 706 An outline of how’d we’d get it done and that we involved Hillsborough, etcetera. And then we bring that back to 707 them and the public’s available to talk at those meetings, also. And they say please proceed or not proceed. It is an 708 overlapping, multi layer process, as Perdita said. 709 710 Perdita Holtz: What happens here does get presented at the public hearing, and the Minutes for this meeting are 711 included, so the BOCC will be aware that that’s something that you brought up. 712 713 Nathan Robinson: Okay, because we literally just bought the property 6 months ago. We literally were playing with 714 the plans to put single-family residences here. And just for the sake of everyone else, we have spoken with Perdita 715 and Craig. So we had to modify our plans based on what the wave of the future is. We get that, and that’s cool but 716 as we modify we don’t want to get stuck between a hard decisions if say this is going to stay R1 forever. Because 717 then we feel like we’re going to get stuck with our only use being our one usage, but that’s not what the whole 718 quadrant is tending toward. 719 720 Lydia Wegman: Thank you. 721 722 Franklin Garland: I have a quick question. How hard is it to get land use changed? I mean, my farm is for sale. But 723 I’ve been approached by people that want it for commercial property. 724 725 Perdita Holtz: It requires the same type of process that we’re going through now. If you wanted to do it as an 726 individual… 727 728 Franklin Garland: But the same thing as Nathan’s, it’s like being between a rock and a hard place. 729 730 Perdita Holtz: Any property owner can apply to amend any of these documents. The land use plan, the zoning map, 731 the UDO. In order to have the County do a County initiated action it’s something that we can potentially talk about. I 732 can tell you that a County initiated amendment will take more than a year. 733 734 Lydia Wegman: Thank you. Do you have any discussion? 735 736 Paul Guthrie: I’m still unsure exactly. I would comment that I think if we can avoid stacking so many of these things 737 on a meeting at one time, I understand there were reasons for that, it would be helpful. After 200 pages of material 738 of which was changed at least twice and reading it, coming here and then having 2 hours of discussion, I still feel 739 uncomfortable. And I’m not sure exactly, when you ask for my vote, I’m not sure what I’m going to do. It’s not that 740 I’m for or against, I’m just not sure in my own mind exactly what the best option is given all of the variables that are 741 involved. So I just want to state that. 742 743 Kim Piracci: I’m just clarifying a question, all these changes are being driven by the desire to increase the tax base; 744 is that correct? 745 746 Perdita Holtz: They’re being pursued to diversify the tax base, not necessarily increase it. 747 748 Tony Blake: In other words, to have the County less reliant on residential housing taxes, and have a little more 749 diversity in the base. In case there’s changes in the economy you have less of an impact. 750 751 Craig Benedict: And the underlying analysis is non-residential property pays more taxes than it costs in services. So 752 there’s a little bonus there. And residential, in most cases, costs more than what we get in tax, unless it’s a real 753 expensive house. So Orange County is overly reliant on their residential property owners to provide those services 754 that everybody loves. And that’s for schools, that’s for social services and health services. So our comprehensive 755 18