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Orange County Comprehensive Plan <br />Principles, Goals and Objectives <br />Minimize ozone exceedances by a percentage to be determined from future data by the year <br />2015. <br /> AIR POLLUTION SOURCES - TRANSPORTATION <br />Objective AE-7: <br />Expand and enhance Orange County’s public transportation system (See also Transportation <br />Objective T-1.6.) <br />Objective AE-8: <br />Improve transportation efficiency: promote more public transportation, ride sharing, and <br />alternative transportation such as bicycling and walking. (See also Transportation Objective T- <br />1.1 and Land Use Objective LU-3.2.) <br />Objective AE-9: <br />Promote the use of more fuel-efficient vehicles, and vehicles that use sustainable alternative <br />fuels such as biofuel and electricity. <br />Objective AE-10: <br />Convert the County’s vehicle fleet to fuel efficient and low-emissions vehicles. <br />AIR POLLUTION SOURCES – BUILDING ENERGY USE <br />Objective AE-11: <br />Improve the energy efficiency of buildings through several action steps: 1) upgrade existing <br />buildings, including County and school buildings; 2) educate planning and building inspection <br />officials about the technologies and techniques of energy efficient construction; and 3) <br />encourage the use of LEED “Gold” (or equivalent) as a standard in new construction. (See also <br />Land Use Objective LU-2.7.) <br />Objective AE-12: <br />Provide a system for builders, owners, lenders, appraisers, and buyers of buildings to assess <br />the energy efficiency of structures. <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVE ENERGY <br />Objective AE-13: <br />Develop an inventory of funding opportunities, programs, credits, etc., that can be used to <br />improve energy efficiency and to generate sustainable power. Identify ways for the County to <br />facilitate the use of these options by County businesses, institutions, and residents. <br />Objective AE-14: <br />Develop an accounting of Orange County agricultural and animal-related resources in order to <br />assess: 1) the potential for heat and power generation; 2) the potential for distribution; and 3) <br />the potential customers that could purchase the power generated and ancillary products. <br />Objective AE-15: <br />Foster participation in green energy programs such as installation incentives for solar hot <br />water/solar generation/solar tempering in residential or commercial construction. The County <br />should develop programs that will link citizens and businesses with options for alternative and <br />sustainable energy sources. <br />Objective AE-16: <br />Develop the use of alternative fuels and waste-derived fuels that will convert landfill, water <br />treatment, agricultural, and wood wastes into heat and electricity. <br />Natural & Cultural Systems Goal 2: Economic viability of agriculture, forestry, and <br />horticulture and their respective lands. <br />37