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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WORK SESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 23, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. C <br />SUBJECT: Outreach Report of the Comprehensive Plan's Land Use Element Update Process <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Outreach Report of the <br />Comprehensive Plan's Land Use <br />Element Update Process (Appendix <br />E, Staff Responses to Township <br />Meeting Questions, to be <br />completed and forwarded under <br />separate cover) <br />PUBLIC HEARING:- (Y /N) No <br />A. INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Director, ext. 2592 <br />Tom Altied, Planner III, ext. 2579 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 336 - 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a report on the public outreach meetings that were conducted during <br />March and April of this year as part of the informal input process for the Comprehensive Plan <br />Land Use Element Update. The main purposes of the report are: (1) to provide a summary of <br />the outreach process; (2) to respond to questions and comments that were voiced during the <br />process; and (3) to convey how Staffs ideas have changed thus far as a result of public input. <br />BACKGROUND: During March and April of 2004, Planning Department Staff conducted a <br />meeting in each of the County's seven townships to receive public input on Staffs ideas for the <br />Land Use Element update. At the outreach meetings, Staff recorded citizens' questions and <br />comments and also distributed a survey to measure citizens' preferences for which "issues of <br />concern" are most significant in Orange County, Staff considered citizens' questions and <br />comments and tabulated their preferences in order to prepare this outreach summary, which will <br />serve as the official Staff response. The following provides an outline of the topics discussed in <br />the Report: <br />I. Introduction <br />a. Purpose of Outreach <br />b. Description of the Land Use Element <br />c. Citizen Participation and Outreach in Orange County <br />Ga'wyq hmsi,e Miming Di, GENUS 004 Pub lie Ncannps ',Up'_3'Wo,k SnesildOM=Ich 9nm131an,084196x AbstracWcm <br />