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Primary staff administrative responsibility: ERC Director and R &P Director. <br />Other staff asked to participate: County Manager or designee, Planning Director, County <br />Engineer, Open Space Design Specialist, Parks Services Director, Land Conservation <br />Manager, Preservation Planner, others as needed. <br />Agricultural Chapter <br />Currently, there is no section of the Comprehensive Plan devoted to agriculture. The <br />existing 1981 Land Use Element addresses in a limited way agricultural preservation and <br />other agricultural issues and their link with land use issues. <br />In early 2004, the Agricultural Preservation Board sent a memo to the Board of <br />Commissioners asking that an Agricultural Element of the Plan be created to <br />comprehensively address the issues of agriculture within Orange County. This would <br />encompass farmland preservation, incentives for agriculture, mapping of farmlands and <br />farm priority areas identified by the Ag Board, agriculture as economic development, <br />land -link and other agricultural viability programs, and an assessment of the future of <br />agricultural activity in the County. <br />The Agricultural Chapter Subcommittee would work with staff on the document and start <br />with a public info session to gain general thoughts and ideas on what an Agricultural <br />Chapter should encompass. The subcommittee would then work with staff as a draft <br />chapter is created, presented to the full Oversight Committee, and then revised and <br />prepared for a fmal public info session and eventual public hearing. <br />Agricultural Chapter Subcommittee <br />1 -2 County Commissioner <br />3 APB members <br />1 HPC member <br />1 Soil and Water District Board member <br />1 Planning Board member <br />2 at -large <br />Primary Staff Administrative Responsibility: ERC Director and EDC Director, along <br />with CES County Agent, District Conservationist, and Planning Director. <br />Other staff invited to participate: County Manager or designee, Preservation Planner, <br />Agricultural ED Specialist, others as needed. <br />Phase 1— Natural Areas Chapter, Parks Chapter, Agricultural Chapter <br />Phase 2 — Water Resources Chapter, Air Quality Chapter, Cultural Resources Chapter <br />