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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 1, 2017 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Planning Board Annual Report / Work Plan <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Annual Report / Work Plan Form <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: (919) <br /> Craig Benedict, 245-2592 <br /> Perdita Holtz, 245-2578 <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To provide an annual report and work plan input to the Board of County <br />Commissioners (BOCC). <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 an early spring BOCC work session. The <br />annual report informs the BOCC of the past year’s activities of advisory boards/commissions, as <br />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 15. Proposed activities are to be consistent with <br />the goals of the BOCC. <br /> <br />The attached Annual Report / Work Plan form has been completed by staff for Planning Board <br />review and comment. Some topics of prime interest include: <br /> <br />1. Affordable and Senior Housing <br />2. Clustering and Water/Wastewater Planning in Rural Areas <br />3. Growth Projections; Population and Employment <br />4. Training for Planning Board Members <br /> <br />These topics are accented on the final three pages of the attachment. <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 />transportation planning and economic development issues (not related to the UDO) in <br />partnership with the Economic Development Department. Some work items the Planning staff <br />is responsible for do not go to an advisory board for a recommendation (for example, water and <br />sewer engineering and the annual report related to the Schools Adequate Public Facilities <br />ordinance [SAPFO]). <br /> 44