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<br />Marilyn Carter: Okay. 220
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<br />Tom Altieri: It's similar in a way to our first engagement window. So have a kickoff, in-person meetings, online 222
<br />engagement, and we will be having two surveys. If you recall, we had good survey participation 223
<br />from those that attended our meetings and completed them in person. Participation was not so 224
<br />hot online, and so a short survey has been developed as well, and one that's a little bit longer. It's 225
<br />pretty detailed information on each of the alternatives, but we want to get feedback from as many 226
<br />people as we can, so we do have two surveys, and we're also doing some tabling events, and last 227
<br />Fridays, and festivals and that type of thing during our engagement window. We know we can't hit 228
<br />somebody with a 15- or 20-minute survey at those types of events, so something short that they 229
<br />can complete in 5 minutes. 230
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<br />Dolores Bailey: Tom, I have two questions back towards what you just talked about. Are you doing anything 232
<br />different as you're reaching out to different communities so that you can get some response? 233
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<br />Tom Altieri: Yes, we are. We've got two public workshop engagement meetings that are coming up that we've 235
<br />started advertising and that Community Relations is pushing out through county notices all over; 236
<br />on the website, social media accounts and so forth. And you'll notice these meeting locations are 237
<br />in kind of strategic areas, so we've had a lot of growth pressure from the west from Mebane along 238
<br />West 10 Road in the area of Gravelly Hill Middle School, some of the developments that have 239
<br />gone in there. And so, one of our meetings will be at that school in the auditorium. We're sending 240
<br />out first-class mail notification to about 1,000 property owners that live within the area of the 241
<br />school, hoping that will help attendance at the meeting. And then of course the American Legion 242
<br />post, if you're familiar with that, that's down in the southwestern part of the county down near 243
<br />White Cross. Again, in the area of the Fiddlehead Corners development proposal. So, we think 244
<br />those, we know those should be pretty well attended. Hard-to-reach communities, I've been 245
<br />working more directly with some community leaders to host meetings. I mentioned that we'd be 246
<br />working on a contract amendment. We do anticipate doing additional meetings and have started 247
<br />planning for those, and it's really more of a grassroots effort to notification, so it's not the model of 248
<br />county staff advertising for a meeting in a county facility, the agricultural center for example, and 249
<br />sending out notices to everyone and just hope and pray that someone comes. We’re working with 250
<br />the community leaders for them to host and for them to invite the right people, those within their 251
<br />communities, to the meetings. We’re going to have some success and we’ll be able to provide 252
<br />more information on that shortly. 253
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<br />Dolores Bailey: Thank you. That's exactly what I wanted to know. I also want to make sure we're covering 255
<br />minority communities around this area, making sure that they get their voices heard as well. My 256
<br />second question is about the mixed housing use that you talked about. Give me some examples 257
<br />of that, please. 258
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<br />Tom Altieri: This would be potentially higher density, smaller lots, a mix of residential, potentially townhomes, 260
<br />and some services, businesses that would serve the neighboring area. 261
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<br />Dolores Bailey: And we're talking home ownership and rental? 263
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<br />Tom Altieri: Potentially. We haven't really gotten to that granular level of detail about exactly what it would 265
<br />look like. The modeling has been primarily on putting it in the right places, on density, and then 266
<br />for each alternative, how much capacity would we have in the county, based on land area, for that 267
<br />development. And not just residential capacity, but also non-residential square footage. 268
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<br />Cy Stober: If I may, we're really focusing on the land use, and the model really focuses on the number of units 270
<br />that would be generated, so like Tom said, that granular level of ownership model or affordability, 271
<br />and how this comprehensive plan will integrate or interact with the adopted strategic plan and the 272
<br />housing goals that are established in it, will be something to determine politically by the county 273
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