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By permitting our rezoning request, Orange County would thereby be facilitating our work in educating and providing ecologically sound options to local homeowners. This advances the County’s interest in the following. ●Objective ED-1.1: Focus public education efforts on sustainability issues, looking at the social, economic and environmental contributions of local businesses. ●Natural and Cultural Systems Goal 7: A balanced and healthy diversity of native plant and animal populations. ●LU Goal 2: Land uses that are appropriate to on-site environmental conditions and features, and that protect natural resources, cultural resources, and community character. Beyond what we do for private homeowners, the Treeist has in the past also been able to further these environmental and educational goals by offering guest presentations at local garden clubs and the Chapel Hill Public Library, as well as offer discounted tree services to the ecologically-minded non-profits such as the NC Botanical Garden, the Coker Arboretum, and the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association, and the Triangle Land Conservancy. We hope to be able to expand these offerings and services. 6. The Provision of Emergency Services Orange County receives a wide variety of storms and weather events including flooding rains, ice storms, tornados, tropical storms, hurricanes, straight line winds, and lightning strikes. In all of these weather events, trees break and fail. It is damages from trees that comprise most of the problems we associate with storm events of every kind. To help prepare itself for emergencies, Orange County participates in a regional hazard mitigation plan. On page 50 the plan lists the FEMA Major Disaster Declarations of our region 11 28