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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WORK SESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 21, 2004 Agenda <br />Item No. 2 <br />SUBJECT: Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element (LUE) Update <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y!N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />As noted in "Background" section <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, ext. 2592 <br />Tom Altieri, ext. 2579 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 245-2130 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />PURPOSE: To reconfirm BOCC goals for the Land Use Element Update, provide Land Use <br />Element/Zoning density options, and discuss Public Hearing notification requirements. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />1. Reconfirmation of BOCC Goals <br />At the August 23, 2004 Joint County Commissioner/Planning Board Work Session, the BOCC <br />requested that the reconfirmation of their goals for the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element <br />(LUE) Update be included as an agenda item at a future work session, As a result, at the <br />October 7, 2004 BOCC Work Session, the Planning Department presented 1981 goals included <br />in the existing Land Use Element along with other sets of goals that have been compiled since <br />the 1981 Element was adopted, The BOCC requested that Planning Staff combine all of the <br />sets of goals that were presented into one comprehensive list for further consideration by the <br />Board. <br />It is not intended at this meeting to agree upon every aspect of the goal outline but to <br />understand the connectivity and primary focus areas, <br />Attachment 1, "Draft Sustainable Land Use Principles", uses atree-like illustration to show how <br />the broad goal categories used in the 2002-2003 Comprehensive Plan Land Use Committee <br />report fits into the new category structure of the current Land Use Element Update, <br />The following sets of goals are pertinent to the current LUE Update: <br />1981 Comprehensive Plan (Attachment 2.a.); <br />1999 BOCC adopted goals (Attachment 2.b.); and <br />Comprehensive Plan Land Use Committee (CPLUC)(Attachment 2.c.) <br />G:\Comprehensive Planning Oiv\TAltieri\land use elementN 02104 BOCC Wk Sess\702104 Abstract BOCC Wk Sess doc <br />