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As a location that allows us to offer our own recreational and educational opportunities to the public, we facilitate the following Goals and Objectives. ●Objective ED-4.2: Provide lifelong learning opportunities, from early childhood through senior citizens. ●Objective LU-4.3: Determine how private developments can best accommodate or provide public and private commercial recreational facilities to serve Orange County’s residents. ●Parks and Recreation Goal 3: Recreational facilities available for the public use in a manner that is multi-generational and accessible to all County citizens at both the countywide and community level. ●Parks and Recreation Goal 4: Healthy lifestyles, quality of life and community building through the provision of a variety of affordable recreational facilities and choice of leisure activities, while responding to the changing needs and interests of County residents. ●Objective PR-4.2: Investigate the potential for public and/or private commercial partnerships and recreational facilities needed to serve Orange County’s residents. ●Objective PR-4.3: Work to keep recreational facilities and services affordable and sustainable to the general public. 8. Congruence with the County’s Broader Plan for Development Just as our plans for our parcel are congruent with the adjacent and surrounding parcels, our plans are also congruent with the County’s broader development designs. The Treeist is a small company and, although we are growing, we will remain a small company for the foreseeable future. While it is true that by permitting our project the County would signal its interest in “public-private sector partnerships that create a stronger business climate” (ED Goal 1) and provide a small step towards “a more balanced tax base that includes a diversity of businesses and services” (Comprehensive Plan, p. 5-30), 19 the County’s greater achievement may be this: by allowing us to fulfill our needs as a company on this relatively low-value parcel - a parcel for which is difficult to imagine other productive uses - it prevents us from having to 19 “While the economic climate in Orange County is good, there is concern regarding the need to diversify the County’s tax base from one primarily composed of residential property (86.4% in 2005) to a more balanced tax base that includes a diversity of businesses and services. Making that change will require a countywide economic development strategy that recruits desired businesses to the area.” Comprehensive Plan, p. 5-30 19 36