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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 23, 2004 Action Agen~ Item No. SUBJECT: Land Use Element -Orange County Comprehensive Plan DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) NO ATTACHMENT(S): 1) Identified Challenges 2) PowerPoint Presentation - To be Distributed at the Meeting 3) Schedule of Proposed Activities INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Benedict, ext. 2592 Tom Altieri, ext. 2579 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To provide an update on the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Update and proposed community outreach. BACKGROUND: The County has been developing its Comprehensive Plan, Land Use Element since spring 2001 when it began receiving Census 2000 data. Since then, open meetings have been held with various boards and committees to address the growth management challenges that lie ahead while incorporating the excellent work that has been conducted by many county- wide task forces and local governments over the last 10 years. Even though this work has been supported by many years of research and data collection, committee and task force reports, the next phase is important. The outreach process will begin to communicate some of the findings and ideas to manage growth and maintain the quality of life in the future and solicit the public's input. The Comprehensive Plan Land Use Committee (CPLUC) identified thirteen (13) challenges (see attachment 1) and staff has posed various options and ideas since January 2003. The presentation has been reformatted as a result of comments received at the November 24, 2003 Joint BOCC/Planning Board dinner meeting, December 17, 2003 meeting with County Mana~er and BOGC Chair, .)anuary 21, 2004 Presentation Advisory Meeting, and February 4`h and 10 , 2004 Planning Board meetings. These various reviews by no means indicate a sanctioning of the recommendations, but have helped shape the format of the presentation. Staff has realized that it is nearly impassible to create a "one size fits all" PowerPoint presentation (attachment 2 distributed at meeting) because various people have different interest and need for data and analysis.