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D R A F T Carrie Fletcher: I think we have different roles so therefore our role here on the Planning Board is totally different than my 336 role on Commission for the Environment so even though they are intertwined, they are a different direction. 337 338 Craig Benedict: With the amendments suggested tonight, do you want to make a collective vote on the Board Plan as 339 amended? 340 341 Randy Marshal: I had one other thought; I am continually surprised by the number of people who live in economic 342 development areas that are surprised when any development projects occur. Can we reach out to neighborhood groups to 343 educate them on what is allowable within these economic development districts and talk about having a conversation 344 before something comes in so we can be more proactive. Is there a process that would allow us to invite neighborhood 345 groups adjacent to some of these economic development areas to have a conversation or forum? 346 347 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 348 Planning 101 Outreach. 349 350 Alexandra Allman: You could solidify that with using Facebook to put all that information so anytime anyone is interested 351 they can go to Orange County Planning Department or Planning Board page and all that information is there so they know 352 what is going on up to date on each project. It demystifies what is going on. 353 354 Perdita Holtz: If I could address the Facebook issue, from a planning perspective, one of the reasons the Planning 355 Department has not embraced Facebook is because there are rules about what government needs to retain, record 356 retention. It has been some government’s experience that when you start talking about development projects it devolves 357 very quickly. It becomes a question of what, if any posts, you can delete and retaining all the posts that were put there. 358 What happens when someone deletes their own posts? It sounds very simple to do a Facebook page but it isn’t as simple 359 for a government agency that is involved in controversial things. We might be able to put something on our website that 360 people wouldn’t be able to directly comment on but we have talked about Facebook in the past and there are some fairly 361 significant issues with the Planning Department having a Facebook account. 362 363 Craig Benedict: It could be that if we do a presentation about Planning 101 in the County, we could YouTube it and have it 364 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. 365 366 Randy Marshall: I have one more, there was a lot of discussion about Mobile Home Parks being disrupted for 367 development which would displace large tracts of affordable housing and uproot communities in order to create areas for 368 development. Is that something that we want to look at in terms of affordable housing and affordable housing 369 communities? 370 371 Craig Benedict: That can be covered under working with the housing department – affordable and senior housing 372 including co-housing – we could add that under number 9. One of Perdita’s staff has been working with the Housing 373 Department about possible amendments to some of the codes, including mobile homes that could promote their long-term 374 viability. 375 376 MOTION by Randy Marshall to approve the Planning Board Annual Report and Work Plan as amended. Seconded by 377 Melissa Poole. 378 379 Randy Marshall: Yes 380 Alexandra Allman Yes 381 Kim Piracci: Yes 382 Patricia Roberts: Yes 383 Carrie Fletcher Yes 384 Gio Mollinedo Yes 385 Adam Beeman: Yes 386 Susan Hunter: Yes 387 Melissa Poole: Yes 388 David Blankfard: Yes 389 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 390 391 13