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1-7 <br />►►. Outreach Process <br />Outreach Meetings <br />SUMMARY OF MEETINGS <br />The Planning Department held numerous outreach meetings to receive feedback for <br />updating the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan. Before the <br />official outreach meetings began, Staff held a number of preliminary meetings beginning <br />in 2000 with the Planning Board and Board of County Commissioners to develop ideas <br />for updating the LUE. The first meeting was a Joint Orange County Boards and <br />Commissions meeting, held at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill on <br />May 14, 2003, intended to get initial feedback on Staffs ideas and to begin generating <br />interest and discussion. <br />The second meeting was a Presentation Advisory meeting held on January 21, 2004 to <br />receive constrictive criticism on Staffs presentation, to be delivered at each of the <br />subsequent township meetings. Then, the Planning Department held an open house for <br />Orange County Staff to view the presentation and comment on the proposed changes to <br />the Land Use Element. <br />Next, Planning Staff held a series of seven public township meetings. Each township <br />meeting lasted approximately two hours, and the dates and locations for these meetings <br />are listed below in Table 3. Since completion of the township meetings, Staff made one <br />additional formal presentation on May 26, 2004 at the Holiday Inn Express in <br />Hillsborough for the County's Chambers of Commerce and area Civic Groups. <br />Additional informal presentations have been delivered to the Triangle J Council of <br />Governments Smart Growth Committee, the Orange County Board of Health, and New <br />Hope Creek Corridor Advisory Committee. <br />Table 3 <br />Township Meetings <br />County Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element and Zoning <br />—­All Meetings to be held from 7:00 — 9:00 p.m. -- -- <br />Township <br />Date <br />Meeting Location <br />Chapel Hill <br />March 23 2004 <br />Southern Human Serv. Ctr., 2501 Homestead Rd. <br />Little River <br />March 30 2004 <br />Caldwell Community Center, 7607 NC 157 <br />Bingham <br />Aril 12, 2004 <br />Orange Grove Comm. Bldg., 6800 Oran a Gr. Rd. <br />Cheeks <br />Aril 15, 2004 <br />Efland- Cheeks Comm. Ctr., 117 Richmond Rd. <br />Eno <br />Aril 19, 2004 <br />Pleasant Green Comm. Ctr., 3030 Comm. Ctr. Rd. <br />Cedar Grove <br />Aril 22, 2004 <br />Northern Human Services Center, 5800 NC 86 N. <br />Hillsborou h <br />Aril 28, 2004 <br />F. Gordon Battle Courtroom, 106. E. Margaret Ln. <br />fl-B-1 <br />