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Approved 12.4.24 Beth Bronson: Apologies. I thought that that's what you were asking for feedback on. 493 494 Tom Altieri: No, that's where we're going with upcoming public outreach. 495 496 Beth Bronson: Yep. We'll get there. The only other question I had was an opportunity to let the public see that 497 you're engaging with the municipalities. And I understand emailing back and forth to managers 498 and making people aware that, Mebane letting the county know that they're hiring a consultant, 499 Orange County letting Mebane know that they've hired a consultant. However, I mean, in the 500 instance of Hillsborough or, as Charity mentioned, the incorporation of Efland, for instance. 501 Things like that, I think, seeing that type of engagement in a public forum between planning staff 502 and the commissioners, or planning staff and other municipalities, would give this opportunity for 503 the public engagement, because their officials are hearing it and receiving it on their behalf. And 504 then maybe more feedback from that. 505 506 Tom Altieri: I'm hearing the point. So is the planning director. We're working our way through a contract and 507 scope of services and a process that has been approved by our board. 508 509 Beth Bronson: Okay. So, you're saying there's no funding for going out and asking to be on the agendas of other 510 councils' meetings just for presentation, for information presentations? Okay. And that's 511 understandable. I don't know if it's common or not. Thanks. 512 513 Lamar Proctor: Just a quick question about the land-use alternatives map. How do you define, what is 514 "urbanizing residential"? 515 516 Tom Altieri: So, without the benefit of the map, I mentioned Mebane is expanding its utility service boundary. 517 It's not necessarily that they're going to be extending water and sewer lines immediately, but this 518 is the area that they could potentially see themselves growing in the somewhat distant future. So, 519 when we're thinking of our existing future land-use map, we have areas that aren't agricultural 520 residential, rural residential. They're not green, they're not yellow on the map. Transition areas. 521 So, think around, maybe around Efland, the 10- and 20-year transition areas, they're kinda the 522 khaki-orange type colors on the future land-use map. And originally it was envisioned that they 523 may have public utilities someday. So urbanizing residential would be an area in the county 524 jurisdiction that would also be potentially within Mebane's utility services area. So, it is a little 525 different from what you are all used to in terms of agricultural residential or rural residential. 526 527 Lamar Proctor: Okay, thank you. 528 529 Tom Altieri: You're welcome. Yeah, some of this will make a little more sense when we get there and you can 530 have the benefit of the maps and the descriptions, and also the criteria. 531 532 Marilyn Carter: Tom, just a quick question. You had referenced the contract discussions with the consultant 533 happening or have happened perhaps. Can you just give us a brief update? I saw in the packet; 534 we're not being asked to consider or provide input on that. That's already been decided by the 535 commissioners. Is that right? 536 537 Tom Altieri: It has not been decided by the commissioners, but they have mentioned that they wanted to do a 538 better job reaching some of the targeted communities and to try to do some things differently. And 539 so, it is to address that. It would be our second contract amendment. There's been one already, 540 and that was to accommodate additional Board of County Commissioners meetings, largely 541 bimonthly meetings, so that was done shortly after the original contract was approved. And then 542 this would be our second contract amendment, more specific to outreach. Also, testing the four 543 alternatives with the public. The original contract included the release of just one draft growth and 544 conservation framework map, future land-use map to the public, and it was decided during the 545 process that the staff team didn't want to make the decision in the narrowing of the four 546 alternatives to create one draft. So testing the alternatives with the public is now being done as 547