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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 23, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9- ~-~ <br />SUBJECT: Transfer of Development Rights Taskforce-Initial Appointments <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover <br />Membership Roster <br />Interest List <br />Application(s)lResume(s) of Person(s) on the <br />Interest List <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 245-2130 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider making initial appointments to the TDR Taskforce. <br />BACKGROUND: The objectives of the TRD Taskforce are to: <br />1. Sustainably balance rural and urban areas; <br />2. Direct growth and development away from important natural and cultural resources and towards <br />areas more able to support municipal services and urban densities; <br />3. To provide working farms with an alternative income potential; and <br />4. To link zoning densities to comprehensive plan goals and policies. <br />Taskforce members may be chosen from the following general sectors, including, but not limited to: loca <br />governments, advisory boards, banking and finance, private sector community/neighborhood groups, <br />utilities, developers, lawyers, agriculture, planning, natural areas advocacy, real estate, and <br />environmental protection. At the time that this board was approved the BOCC chose not to discuss how <br />many members this board should have, but would like to choose membership from the applicant pool. <br />The BOCC asked that this board be appointed before the summer break, so that this board may get <br />started on its mission. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: None. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider making initial appointments to the TDR Taskforce, as the board <br />make desire. <br />