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5. Rural Character and Farmland Protection Work Group Update Mission Statement: "Examine strategies and develop recommendations, if any, regarding approaches for the protection of rural character and farmland in Orange County, taking into account the comments from the public outreach process that is ongoing." 6. Public Hearing Notification Requirements The options to address identified growth challenges in the areas of air and water quality, environmental protection, open space preservation and traffic reduction can be implemented through text amendments within our zoning and subdivision codes. The zoning text amendments being proposed are different than the zoning atlas (aka map) amendments that created watershed overlays in 1994. Text amendments employ the existing zoning map designations and change only the text within the zoning booklet. The required public notice provisions for legal advertisement by state law and Orange County regulations differentiate between text and atlas amendments processes. Text amendments (which are being proposed) require a notice in the newspaper. Planning Staff recommends (with Administration and Board of Commissioners permission) the expansion of the required newspaper notice provisions by printing a '/2 page (5 columns wide by 10.5 inches deep) color ad, which includes a GIS picture clearly depicting the changes, as well as, a written explanation. The notice will be printed in three local newspapers at least twice in the timeframe required by law. The cost will be approximately $12,000.00. In this manner, notification occurs within the countywide planning jurisdiction and other interested parties that may be within adjacent municipal areas. This text change process does not require an individual mailing and property posting to each property owner. This other system occurs when a zoning map designation changes (e.g. Agricultural Residential (AR) to Agricultural Services (AS) that could change the permitted uses on the land on a specific parcel of land. 7. Timeline /Next Steps To be discussed at the meeting. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no direct financial impact associated with discussion of these topics, There are no action items requiring formal Board decisions. RECOMMENDATION(S): Planning Staff recommends that the Board discuss the topics listed and provide appropriate direction to Staff.