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Approved 3.3.21 336 Carrie Fletcher: I think we have different roles so therefore our role here on the Planning Board is totally different than my 337 role on Commission for the Environment so even though they are intertwined,they are a different direction. 338 339 Craig Benedict: With the amendments suggested tonight,do you want to make a collective vote on the Board Plan as 340 amended? 341 342 Randy Marshal: I had one other thought; I am continually surprised by the number of people who live in economic 343 development areas that are surprised when any development projects occur. Can we reach out to neighborhood groups to 344 educate them on what is allowable within these economic development districts and talk about having a conversation 345 before something comes in so we can be more proactive. Is there a process that would allow us to invite neighborhood 346 groups adjacent to some of these economic development areas to have a conversation or forum? 347 348 Craig Benedict: I would say yes, I would agree to that. We could add that to the work plan if the Board wants. Call it 349 Planning 101 Outreach. 350 351 Alexandra Allman: You could solidify that with using Facebook to put all that information so anytime anyone is interested 352 they can go to Orange County Planning Department or Planning Board page and all that information is there so they know 353 what is going on up to date on each project. It demystifies what is going on. 354 355 Perdita Holtz: If I could address the Facebook issue,from a planning perspective,one of the reasons the Planning 356 Department has not embraced Facebook is because there are rules about what government needs to retain, record 357 retention. It has been some government's experience that when you start talking about development projects it devolves 358 very quickly. It becomes a question of what, if any posts,you can delete and retaining all the posts that were put there. 359 What happens when someone deletes their own posts? It sounds very simple to do a Facebook page but it isn't as simple 360 for a government agency that is involved in controversial things. We might be able to put something on our website that 361 people wouldn't be able to directly comment on but we have talked about Facebook in the past and there are some fairly 362 significant issues with the Planning Department having a Facebook account. 363 364 Craig Benedict: It could be that if we do a presentation about Planning 101 in the County,we could YouTube it and have it 365 available online. Let me work on a PowerPoint and bring it to this Board and then how to get that out to the general public. 366 367 Randy Marshall: I have one more, there was a lot of discussion about Mobile Home Parks being disrupted for 368 development which would displace large tracts of affordable housing and uproot communities in order to create areas for 369 development. Is that something that we want to look at in terms of affordable housing and affordable housing 370 communities? 371 372 Craig Benedict: That can be covered under working with the housing department—affordable and senior housing 373 including co-housing—we could add that under number 9. One of Perdita's staff has been working with the Housing 374 Department about possible amendments to some of the codes, including mobile homes that could promote their long-term 375 viability. 376 377 MOTION by Randy Marshall to approve the Planning Board Annual Report and Work Plan as amended. Seconded by 378 Melissa Poole. 379 380 Randy Marshall: Yes 381 Alexandra Allman Yes 382 Kim Piracci: Yes 383 Patricia Roberts: Yes 384 Carrie Fletcher Yes 385 Gio Mollinedo Yes 386 Adam Beeman: Yes 387 Susan Hunter: Yes 388 Melissa Poole: Yes 389 David Blankfard: Yes 390 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 391