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12 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 274 and how the county can participate in realizing such projects and/or by the private sector as well <br /> 275 and what type of projects are brought to the county. And,certainly, if there are some carrots out <br /> 276 there to make the type of projects that you're proposing, Ms. Bailey,with integration of more rental <br /> 277 units and affordable units—they're not necessarily the same; Downtown Durham can tell you that, <br /> 278 as can Downtown Hillsborough—that that's to be determined, and that can be spoken to in more <br /> 279 of the policy framework that could be part of this comprehensive land-use plan. But the modeling, <br /> 280 the scenarios that we're looking at right now really are focusing on the amount of square footage <br /> 281 of non-residential space and the number of residential units that could be generated if we pulled <br /> 282 really hard on these political value levers to envision the future. <br /> 283 <br /> 284 Tom Altieri: If I could just tack onto that real quick. As part of the consultants'contract,they are to provide <br /> 285 some type of a tool to link the future land-use map categories to our zoning districts. We're <br /> 286 currently calling it a matrix. The new tool,we don't have that yet, so that will provide more detail <br /> 287 about the specifics and how it relates to zoning districts. <br /> 288 <br /> 289 Dolores Bailey: Thank you. <br /> 290 <br /> 291 Chris Johnston: I had a point of clarification, so the conservation and growth map versus the future land-use map, <br /> 292 I'm just confused a little about is that just a name specifically for this plan, or is that that we're <br /> 293 changing the terminology in terms of outside of the 2050 plan? So,the phrase conservation and <br /> 294 growth map came up a number of times, and I'm just trying to understand how that fits in and why <br /> 295 we're changing that terminology if we have to continually go in and say future land-use map. <br /> 296 <br /> 297 Tom Altieri: So,we don't have to change it. <br /> 298 <br /> 299 Chris Johnston: Okay. <br /> 300 <br /> 301 Tom Altieri: The consultant used the term.And so,we said,well, people aren't going to relate initially to that, <br /> 302 so we better put in parentheses future land-use map so that they know what we're talking about. <br /> 303 But we don't have to change the name. <br /> 304 <br /> 305 Chris Johnston: One of the things that I feel like comes up a lot in these documents is we get so acronym-y,which <br /> 306 isn't a word. We get deep into the acronyms,where we're adding these acronyms, and then we're <br /> 307 adding descriptors to the acronyms,and then part of this process feels like we're trying to make it <br /> 308 more accessible, but at the same time,we're adding layers upon layers,and it can just get <br /> 309 dangerous. One other thing I wanted to ask in regard to, the community engagement meetings <br /> 310 are both on weekdays, right. There's no weekend one that's coming up for the next community <br /> 311 engagement meetings. Are there plans to have weekend meetings for the future ones? <br /> 312 <br /> 313 Tom Altieri: So, I mentioned we're doing some of the local events,fairs and some of those opportunities. <br /> 314 Some of those are on weekends. We've already had two weekend events. We went to the back- <br /> 315 to-school Efland-Cheeks Community Center. That was on a Saturday. And we went to the Latino <br /> 316 Americano Festival in Carrboro. That was on a Sunday. So,we're doing weekends, too. And the <br /> 317 idea is just to kinda mix it up so we're able to work around people's schedules, and then there's <br /> 318 the online engagement survey, of course. <br /> 319 <br /> 320 Chris Johnston: Okay. That was going to be my next question as well is when we had initially talked about <br /> 321 outreach and how we were reaching out to people about this,we had mentioned things like Hog <br /> 322 Day or whatever the case may be, and the issue came up that that's in the municipalities. It's not <br /> 323 necessarily if you participate in Hog Day,you may not be affected by the 2050 plan. Was that <br /> 324 decision just a necessity of trying to get additional people to be interested? <br /> 325 <br /> 326 Tom Altieri: One of the first things we ask when we engage people at one of these events is, "Do you live in <br /> 327 Orange County?" If they say no,we're kinda like,well, if you're not familiar with the county,you're <br />