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Orange County Comprehensive Plan <br />Principles, Goals and Objectives <br />Economic Development Goal 4: Partnerships that ensure the County remains a great <br />place in which to live and work. <br />Objective ED-4.1: <br />Enhance historic character by supporting organizations’ efforts to preserve, promote, and <br />maintain historic structures, and identify Orange County policies that may be in conflict with <br />these efforts. (See also Cultural Resources Objective CR-2, CR-3, and CR-5, and Housing <br />Objective 3.6.) <br />Objective ED-4.2: <br />Provide lifelong learning opportunities, from early childhood through senior citizens. <br />Objective ED-4.3: <br />Welcome and promote greater inclusiveness and diversity. <br />Objective ED-4.4: <br />Enhance rural and agricultural community character by supporting local agriculture markets, <br />supporting complementary conservation and management tools, and considering tools to make <br />farming more profitable. (See also Agriculture Objective AG-2 and AG-3.) <br />Objective ED-4.5: <br />Enhance urban character by connecting and supporting existing plans for increasing the <br />commercial tax base and for revitalizing the downtown areas of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and <br />Hillsborough. <br />HOUSING <br />Housing Goal 1: A wide range of types and densities of quality housing affordable to all <br />in all parts of the County. <br />Objective H-1.1: <br />Assist in the rehabilitation and development of affordable housing and promotion of <br />community development programs in the County using multiple strategies including <br />implementation of the Countywide Housing and Community Development Consolidated Plan. <br />Objective H-1.2: <br />Concentrate the Orange County Community Development Block Grant Program efforts and <br />resources in those areas of the County occupied by low and moderate-income households and <br />having the most severe housing and community development needs. <br />Objective H-1.3: <br />Increase the provision of housing assistance for households in need and coordinate with public <br />and non-profit organizations responsible for providing community services and housing in the <br />County. <br />Objective H-1.4: <br />Coordinate with the municipalities to maintain an adequate supply of residentially designated <br />land to accommodate sustainable levels of population growth and a diversity of housing types <br />countywide. <br />Objective H-1.5: <br />Ensure that a variety of housing types can be developed throughout the County in a sustainable <br />manner that locates housing near employment centers and commercial centers and that <br />efficiently uses existing and planned public services. (See also Land Use Objectives LU-1.1 and <br />LU-6.2, Economic Development Objective ED-3.5, and Water and Wastewater Objective WW-2.) <br />Objective H-1.6: <br />30