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