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Approved 2.5.25 Charity Kirk: Would there be specific suggestions, or would that be a whole new phase once the 983 comprehensive plan is updated? 984 985 Leigh Anne King: What we typically do as part of comprehensive land use planning efforts is to provide 986 recommendations for, generally speaking, the types of changes that we would recommend 987 incorporating into a cod update process. That being said, one half of our business is doing plans. 988 The other practice area of ours is doing actual ordinance work. And what we know from doing 989 that is it's very important for the plan to not hamstring and get too specific about the ordinance 990 changes that need to be made, until you actually have the time to go in and work within the 991 framework of assessment for the code itself. So, we are looking at the code and we are making 992 some suggestions based on what's in the code. But we're not going to be making provision 993 change recommendations in the plan. We want that to happen as part of a code update process. 994 995 Beth Bronson: Charity, to your point about that designation of zoning, what it reminds me of is those 996 neighborhood activity nodes that we looked at in White Cross where they were trying to present, 997 because there is set out designations for zoning that are in the UDO as a result of the original 998 comprehensive plan, if I am understanding that correctly. And so, on the map, in the community 999 engagement what I did notice with those, there was no focus on those areas. So, you're talking 1000 about those interchanges, those points of connection. Where people are commuting by, where 1001 you're getting the most drive by of the residents, you have the most opportunity for something like 1002 retail versus manufacturing. If, per se, there was something in the UDO eventually based on the 1003 policy recommendations and the comprehensive plan that said, this area is good as an overlay 1004 district for conservation neighborhoods or, rural agricultural or certain things like that or certain 1005 types of businesses such as, low impact, like dog kennel kind of things. Right? That idea being 1006 that, if you identify those areas in the County where we would encourage commercial versus 1007 residential development, but also holistically together in Northern Orange County or in, Southern 1008 Orange County, I guess. Is that kind of what you're talking about? 1009 1010 Charity Kirk: I mean, she answered my question. I felt satisfied with her answer. 1011 1012 Beth Bronson: I guess, I will just add that having more specifics like that, where you're not hamstringing the policy 1013 that could be made, but you are also saying that these areas that previously been identified, these 1014 will be expanded or better defined? And not just based on a radius of an intersection. 1015 1016 Adam Beeman: Any other questions? 1017 1018 Leigh Anne King: Thank you. 1019 1020 Charity Kirk: It was super helpful. Appreciate it. 1021 1022 AGENDA ITEM 8: PLANNING BOARD ANNUAL REPORT AND WORK PLAN: To review and approve the annual input from 1023 which informs the BOCC of the past year’s activities of advisory boards/commissions and assists 1024 in overall County work planning. 1025 1026 Perdita Holtz: So, tonight we have the planning board's annual report and work plan for your consideration. For 1027 those of you who've been on the board for quite some time, you know that every December we 1028 bring you this work item, and it eventually makes it way on to a BOCC work session agenda in the 1029 spring of the following year along with all of the other advisory boards that the County has. So, 1030 this year's report contains a fairly extensive list of all of the things that the planning board reviewed 1031 and made a recommendation on in 2024. So, on page 38 in your agenda packet, which I have up 1032 here on the screen, there were several rezoning applications, there were UDO text amendments, 1033 there were major subdivision concept plans and preliminary plats. You know the briefings on the 1034 Orange County Land Use Plan, which you just received again tonight. There was a briefing on the 1035 climate action plan, and we discussed public notification requirements in a little work session 1036 earlier this year as well. So even though we have missed the past two months of meetings, we 1037