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