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common. These processes are, that's what makes them interesting and challenging, because not everybody 347 <br />sees the world in the same way. 348 <br /> 349 <br />Lamar Proctor: Correct. I just didn't know how you weigh these things, or if you’re just like, “here they 350 <br />are. Here’s what the statistically significant survey say, here's what the self-inviting group say, and here's what 351 <br />the stakeholders say.” I'm just wondering in terms of the themes and narratives in stakeholders, for example, 352 <br />the issue with Mebane, in your report, there's an indication from stakeholders, without really parsing out how 353 <br />many stakeholders or who said it, or where this information's coming from, that Mebane is not really as 354 <br />development hungry as it seems to be. But I think there's plenty of examples that that is also not true, so 355 <br />there's a disconnect between what is verifiable, accurate information, and what stakeholder summary 356 <br />interviews are, and the way they're presented. 357 <br /> 358 <br />Leigh Anne King: I think so. It sounds like you're interested in more kind of quantifiable reporting of what 359 <br />the stakeholder interview responses were. And I think that we typically write them as more qualitative than 360 <br />quantifiable at that stage. The purpose of those stakeholder surveys and interviews is really to give us a pretty 361 <br />quick dose of what the issues are in the community and then we kind of use that to help define the questions 362 <br />we want to ask the community and test, “is that right, are we hearing it right?” So, what we learn from the 363 <br />community engagement and the Strategic Plan Survey, is that, to your point, there's less of an emphasis on 364 <br />economic development in terms of the community aspirations that we're reading through those two reports 365 <br />than we heard from in the stakeholder information. Does that make sense? 366 <br /> 367 <br />Lamar Proctor: And that's why I'm noting that kind of disconnect there. 368 <br /> 369 <br />Leigh Anne King: Yep. And that's something that we will help to shed some light on as part of that new 370 <br />Issues and Opportunities Report. And we're not going to go through line by line comparing every single issue, 371 <br />but I think that we can talk about how there's some differing opinions about some different topics within the 372 <br />community. 373 <br /> 374 <br />Lamar Proctor: And then, UNC. So, there was, just kind of like, “UNC is there.” Is there a way to 375 <br />engage? I know UNC has a school of government and they have a whole branch of people who look at the 376 <br />interface between local government and development, they have small business advisors. And what I did like 377 <br />about your report is it got me thinking about one of the largest, if not the largest employer in the county is UNC 378 <br />Hospital and is there any way to interface with them and get them to be a stakeholder in the community in 379 <br />terms of affordable housing. Because a lot of the people who need affordable housing are the people who are 380 <br />working at UNC Hospital or University of North Carolina, generally. And I didn't know if there was any fertile 381 <br />ground there moving forward, because they are a huge part, and they just seem kind of silent in this 382 <br />conversation. 383 <br /> 384 <br />Leigh Anne King: I think that that is a really good idea to be exploring. As a land use plan, since our kind of 385 <br />focus is on developing a land use plan at the end of the day for this project, and I think that land use plan can 386 <br />include some recommendations for how the County might go about either partnering or being a funder, or 387 <br />whatever the recommendation is with respect to affordable housing. And it seems like that's a very important 388 <br />opportunity— is how can we be kind of partnering with our biggest employer in the county, that generates a lot 389 <br />of the workforce that can't live here because of wages, etc. and the lack of affordability, that seems like an 390 <br />important kind of recommendation to be considering. 391 <br /> 392 <br />Lamar Proctor: And last point on the stakeholder interview answers. I think going forward, I'd like for it to 393 <br />have some clarity as to like, this is a qualitative analysis. Because someone who is reviewing this can get 394 <br />misled into thinking, “well, these are quantitatively important things,” as opposed to, “this is kind of the 395 <br />conversation themes that come up when we talk to stakeholders.” 396 <br />13