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Whitney Watson: Right. So, kind of a follow onto that is, what is the economic potential for that? Because it 248 may be that there's lots of jobs created to build that farm, but only two or three or so to maintain it. And 249 perhaps a better example of the kind of jobs that people might question is, “do I want something that's a 250 warehouse where they may hire 50 to 75 people, but they're not actually producing anything, versus a 251 manufacturing facility with maybe a larger employment work force, different kinds of salaries, that kind of 252 thing?” And that makes a big difference, I think, when people think about, “yeah, I'm willing to have a 253 warehouse down the road from me with it's traffic versus a production facility that's making something that gets 254 shipped all over the country.” 255 256 Leigh Anne King: On the affordable housing question that you had in terms of kind of what are people 257 thinking about when they say they want to solve this problem, what are the solutions that they're interested in. 258 I mean, one of the things is we haven't defined and designed exactly what the second round of engagement 259 will look like. But we could potentially kind of explore different models and share that with the community 260 members. I think an important thing to also be thinking about, too, is that while this is a County plan focused 261 on the County's direct authority, where you have land use, planning and zoning jurisdiction, affordable housing 262 as we know is not a County alone problem. This is very much also a challenge that the municipalities and 263 neighboring jurisdictions are dealing with as well. That’s part of a challenge. When I work with counties, I try 264 to recommend that we think about how are there ways to partner it because a lot of the services, the public 265 transportation, the jobs, are often located within the municipalities. And affordability is not just about housing. 266 It's also about transportation and other related costs. And so, the further out you put people, the more 267 potentially over time their costs are going to be increasing. So, it's a challenge because it's not just a question 268 that the County alone can really solve, and shouldn't be solving alone. It's really a more regional kind, or at 269 least within the County, problem to be addressing. 270 271 Whitney Watson: I was really glad to see that that nexus of affordable housing and transportation came up 272 over and over again. Because that does mean that we will hopefully focus our attention on finding a good 273 solution for both of those. 274 275 Lamar Proctor: So the Strategic Survey Plan is done by a different agency or business? 276 277 Leigh Anne King: BerryDunn, and they actually had, there was a different group as part of their consultant 278 team that conducted the survey, if I remember correctly. 279 280 Lamar Proctor: And will those results also appear on the website at some point? 281 282 Leigh Anne King: There's a full report, that anybody can access, it's on the County's website. 283 284 Lamar Proctor: And so, where will that appear for the public to see those results? Would it be on 285 OrangeCountylanduseplan.com? 286 287 Leigh Anne King: We can cross reference it. We can definitely add that to the website. I don't think we 288 currently have that today, but – 289 290 Cy Stober: The Strategic Plan is coming to the Commissioners for adoption at their next meeting, on 291 February 20th. Where that will be stored on the County's website, that project was managed by the Manager's 292 Office, so I'm not sure, but we're happy to provide links to that from the Comprehensive Plan. 293 294 Lamar Proctor: I think it would be very helpful for all of the survey results, whether they're the community 295 engagement, the Strategic Plan Survey, or the stakeholder interviews, to see all the different conversations 296 and clearly identify the source of that information. I do think the Strategic Plan Survey, being that it’s 297 11