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19 <br /> Your Monolog Effort: RefIocHan Questions <br /> Why do you want to plan? <br /> Fl-ow will things L-e different' <br /> What's the scope of your plan' <br /> Who has a stake In the plan? <br /> How will you use and share your plan? <br /> Who leads what's <br /> FI-ow rnUch will you co mrt11C? <br /> �I <br /> Commissioner Hamilton said this information has been helpful to see. She said she <br /> feels even more like the Board should do the strategic plan. She said the visioning part of this is <br /> important because some of the issues she is always bringing up about education, and what she <br /> hears others bringing up about economic development, might be 20 years down the road. She <br /> said it brings the question of what they want the community to be like in the future, what are the <br /> limits to growth as far as water and other infrastructure, how many businesses are needed to <br /> help get ahead. She said she thinks about these things, but not in a way that would be helpful <br /> to planning. <br /> Lydian Altman said these are great visioning questions for the elected body and <br /> community to consider. She added that the vision should be 20 years out, but the detailed <br /> planning should address the next 3-5 years. <br /> Commissioner Richards said the aging population and other demographic changes is <br /> important to consider when looking towards planning for the future. She said receiving this type <br /> of information from staff would be helpful. <br /> Lydian Altman said the county's new Planning Director would have some good data and <br /> projections to help the Board ground their decisions and planning in the context of Orange <br /> County. <br /> Commissioner Hamilton said the aging demographic doesn't surprise her because of <br /> her experience as a social worker. She asked the question of how many people are coming into <br /> the community that are older compare to the number of people already here who are aging and <br /> how much the Board should accommodate the influx. She said the issue is who is going to take <br /> care of the aging population if there is no room for younger people to live here. <br /> Lydian Altman said the Commissioners have identified important questions for the <br /> visioning process. <br /> Chair Price said this discussion validates that the Board is on the right track. She said <br /> that things have changed even since the goals were adopted six years ago, and she has been <br /> to conferences where there was discussion on the influx of people and the landscape changing <br /> all across the Charlotte-Greensboro-Raleigh-Durham beltway. She said everything is changing <br /> so much so quickly that the county has to be prepared for the needs that are coming. She said <br />