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Approved 2.5.25 Adam Beeman: I don't have any additions to the agenda. I don't believe there's anybody from the public, so I'm 55 going to skip right past that and see if we can't get this thing moving. 56 57 AGENDA ITEM 5: PUBLIC CHARGE 58 59 INTRODUCTION TO THE PUBLIC CHARGE 60 The Board of County Commissioners, under the authority of North Carolina General Statute, 61 appoints the Orange County Planning Board (OCPB) to uphold the written land development law of 62 the County. The general purpose of OCPB is to guide and accomplish coordinated and harmonious 63 development. OCPB shall do so in a manner, which considers the present and future needs of its 64 citizens and businesses through efficient and responsive process that contributes to and promotes 65 the health, safety, and welfare of the overall County. The OCPB will make every effort to uphold a 66 vision of responsive governance and quality public services during our deliberations, decisions, and 67 recommendations. 68 69 PUBLIC CHARGE 70 The Planning Board pledges to the citizens of Orange County its respect. The Board asks its 71 citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with 72 fellow citizens. At any time, should any member of the Board or any citizen fail to observe this public 73 charge, the Chair will ask the offending member to leave the meeting until that individual regains 74 personal control. Should decorum fail to be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting until such 75 time that a genuine commitment to this public charge is observed. 76 77 AGENDA ITEM 7: UPDATE ON LAND USE PLAN 2050 – To receive an update from Clarion Associates on aspects of 78 the ongoing Land Use Plan 2050 project. 79 80 Adam Beeman: We've got Clarion here tonight, and Tom is going to give us a brief update, and then we'll go from 81 there. Good evening. 82 83 Tom Altieri: Good evening. Tom Altieri, Orange County senior planner. Just a very brief introduction and then 84 I'll turn the floor over to Leigh Anne King. The planning board received its last update from staff 85 on the land use plan project back in September. Since that time, the County and the consultant 86 have completed our second engagement window which occurred late September through the 87 month of October. Leigh Anne King with Clarion and Emily Gvino will give you a presentation this 88 evening. It provides some information about some of the results of what we learned through the 89 outreach process. The presentation you'll receive is nearly identical to one that the 90 commissioners received just a few weeks ago, and I believe the last slide of the presentation 91 provides a brief update on some of the questions that were asked of the commissioners and what 92 they had to say about it. So, with that, I'll turn it over to Emily first. 93 94 Emily Gvino: Thanks, Tom. Good evening, everyone. My name is Emily Gvino. These slides we'll put on the 95 project website for the land use plan, which is OrangeCountylanduseplan.com so you'll have these 96 after the meeting, as well. This evening, we're going to give you a quick project update about 97 where we are. I believe the last time that Leigh Anne and I spoke to you was probably sometime 98 around the first community engagement window, so we have a couple of updates since then and 99 then we'll be going into Community Engagement Window No. 2 which we held this fall. So, we'll 100 be talking through the activities that were conducted, the objectives that we had for this window 101 and then Leigh Anne will take you through the outcomes of that engagement and what we heard. 102 A brief moment for discussion of the policy direction and kind of an update, as Tom mentioned, of 103 what we heard from the commissioners at the last meeting, and then we'll go through the next 104 steps. So, this is our project timeline. The project kicked off in the summer of 2023 when we 105 were doing some initial groundwork and research, and we spoke with some of you during those 106 initial stakeholder interviews. During Phase 2 is when we launched that first community 107 engagement window, so that kicked off last fall through the winter of last year. We were working 108 on identifying what are the new issues and opportunities that have been presented, or what is the 109