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Approved 12.4.24 and how the county can participate in realizing such projects and/or by the private sector as well 274 and what type of projects are brought to the county. And, certainly, if there are some carrots out 275 there to make the type of projects that you're proposing, Ms. Bailey, with integration of more rental 276 units and affordable units – they're not necessarily the same; Downtown Durham can tell you that, 277 as can Downtown Hillsborough – that that's to be determined, and that can be spoken to in more 278 of the policy framework that could be part of this comprehensive land-use plan. But the modeling, 279 the scenarios that we're looking at right now really are focusing on the amount of square footage 280 of non-residential space and the number of residential units that could be generated if we pulled 281 really hard on these political value levers to envision the future. 282 283 Tom Altieri: If I could just tack onto that real quick. As part of the consultants' contract, they are to provide 284 some type of a tool to link the future land-use map categories to our zoning districts. We're 285 currently calling it a matrix. The new tool, we don't have that yet, so that will provide more detail 286 about the specifics and how it relates to zoning districts. 287 288 Dolores Bailey: Thank you. 289 290 Chris Johnston: I had a point of clarification, so the conservation and growth map versus the future land-use map, 291 I'm just confused a little about is that just a name specifically for this plan, or is that that we're 292 changing the terminology in terms of outside of the 2050 plan? So, the phrase conservation and 293 growth map came up a number of times, and I'm just trying to understand how that fits in and why 294 we're changing that terminology if we have to continually go in and say future land-use map. 295 296 Tom Altieri: So, we don't have to change it. 297 298 Chris Johnston: Okay. 299 300 Tom Altieri: The consultant used the term. And so, we said, well, people aren't going to relate initially to that, 301 so we better put in parentheses future land-use map so that they know what we're talking about. 302 But we don't have to change the name. 303 304 Chris Johnston: One of the things that I feel like comes up a lot in these documents is we get so acronym-y, which 305 isn't a word. We get deep into the acronyms, where we're adding these acronyms, and then we're 306 adding descriptors to the acronyms, and then part of this process feels like we're trying to make it 307 more accessible, but at the same time, we're adding layers upon layers, and it can just get 308 dangerous. One other thing I wanted to ask in regard to, the community engagement meetings 309 are both on weekdays, right. There's no weekend one that's coming up for the next community 310 engagement meetings. Are there plans to have weekend meetings for the future ones? 311 312 Tom Altieri: So, I mentioned we're doing some of the local events, fairs and some of those opportunities. 313 Some of those are on weekends. We've already had two weekend events. We went to the back-314 to-school Efland-Cheeks Community Center. That was on a Saturday. And we went to the Latino 315 Americano Festival in Carrboro. That was on a Sunday. So, we're doing weekends, too. And the 316 idea is just to kinda mix it up so we're able to work around people's schedules, and then there's 317 the online engagement survey, of course. 318 319 Chris Johnston: Okay. That was going to be my next question as well is when we had initially talked about 320 outreach and how we were reaching out to people about this, we had mentioned things like Hog 321 Day or whatever the case may be, and the issue came up that that's in the municipalities. It's not 322 necessarily if you participate in Hog Day, you may not be affected by the 2050 plan. Was that 323 decision just a necessity of trying to get additional people to be interested? 324 325 Tom Altieri: One of the first things we ask when we engage people at one of these events is, "Do you live in 326 Orange County?" If they say no, we're kinda like, well, if you're not familiar with the county, you're 327