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Approved 3-6-24 248 Whitney Watson: Right. So, kind of a follow onto that is, what is the economic potential for that? Because it 249 may be that there's lots of jobs created to build that farm, but only two or three or so to maintain it. And 250 perhaps a better example of the kind of jobs that people might question is, "do I want something that's a 251 warehouse where they may hire 50 to 75 people, but they're not actually producing anything, versus a 252 manufacturing facility with maybe a larger employment work force, different kinds of salaries, that kind of 253 thing?"And that makes a big difference, I think, when people think about, "yeah, I'm willing to have a 254 warehouse down the road from me with it's traffic versus a production facility that's making something that gets 255 shipped all over the country." 256 257 Leigh Anne King: On the affordable housing question that you had in terms of kind of what are people 258 thinking about when they say they want to solve this problem, what are the solutions that they're interested in. 259 1 mean, one of the things is we haven't defined and designed exactly what the second round of engagement 260 will look like. But we could potentially kind of explore different models and share that with the community 261 members. I think an important thing to also be thinking about, too, is that while this is a County plan focused 262 on the County's direct authority, where you have land use, planning and zoning jurisdiction, affordable housing 263 as we know is not a County alone problem. This is very much also a challenge that the municipalities and 264 neighboring jurisdictions are dealing with as well. That's part of a challenge. When I work with counties, I try 265 to recommend that we think about how are there ways to partner it because a lot of the services, the public 266 transportation, the jobs, are often located within the municipalities. And affordability is not just about housing. 267 It's also about transportation and other related costs. And so, the further out you put people, the more 268 potentially over time their costs are going to be increasing. So, it's a challenge because it's not just a question 269 that the County alone can really solve, and shouldn't be solving alone. It's really a more regional kind, or at 270 least within the County, problem to be addressing. 271 272 Whitney Watson: I was really glad to see that that nexus of affordable housing and transportation came up 273 over and over again. Because that does mean that we will hopefully focus our attention on finding a good 274 solution for both of those. 275 276 Lamar Proctor: So the Strategic Survey Plan is done by a different agency or business? 277 278 Leigh Anne King: BerryDunn, and they actually had, there was a different group as part of their consultant 279 team that conducted the survey, if I remember correctly. 280 281 Lamar Proctor: And will those results also appear on the website at some point? 282 283 Leigh Anne King: There's a full report, that anybody can access, it's on the County's website. 284 285 Lamar Proctor: And so, where will that appear for the public to see those results? Would it be on 286 OrangeCountylanduseplan.com? 287 288 Leigh Anne King: We can cross reference it. We can definitely add that to the website. I don't think we 289 currently have that today, but— 290 291 Cy Stober: The Strategic Plan is coming to the Commissioners for adoption at their next meeting, on 292 February 20t". Where that will be stored on the County's website, that project was managed by the Manager's 293 Office, so I'm not sure, but we're happy to provide links to that from the Comprehensive Plan. 294 295 Lamar Proctor: I think it would be very helpful for all of the survey results, whether they're the community 296 engagement, the Strategic Plan Survey, or the stakeholder interviews, to see all the different conversations 297 and clearly identify the source of that information. I do think the Strategic Plan Survey, being that it's