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18 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 604 Delores Bailey: I will take a copy, Cy. <br /> 605 <br /> 606 Lamar Proctor: Is this"Rural by Design"? <br /> 607 <br /> 608 Meg Millard: But the one chapter is not that long, and it is about conservation subdivisions, so it would be at <br /> 609 least,everybody could read the same material and then have a discussion. <br /> 610 <br /> 611 Venkat Yendapalli: I think there is some YouTube videos as well. I was just looking up his name. <br /> 612 <br /> 613 Lamar Proctor: Oh. All right. And so, he is like the guru of rural planning? <br /> 614 <br /> 615 Perdita Holtz: He is one of them. I mean, he has been around for a while, and he has really stuck to his ideas <br /> 616 over the decades. <br /> 617 <br /> 618 Lamar Proctor: Okay.Yeah. This is interesting. I feel like a whole new world is opening up for me. <br /> 619 <br /> 620 Cy Stober: His emphasis as opposed to an urban traditionalist or a neo traditionalist is more on how do you <br /> 621 keep the rural areas rural, but also build,you know, allow people to live in them, not a <br /> 622 preservationist, rural preservationist, but a rural designer. <br /> 623 <br /> 624 Lamar Proctor: I was just going to say, so we did add just the connection with the board of county commissioners <br /> 625 to No. 8, and so I was just asking if there were any other areas of concern that the board wanted <br /> 626 to discuss of adding into our work plan. <br /> 627 <br /> 628 Statler Gilfillen: I have one. I believe, and I will stand corrected on this,that Orange County is probably one of the <br /> 629 largest property owners both in size of area, buildings, and value of any owner of real estate in the <br /> 630 county. When it comes to maintenance of the buildings, asset management is involved in them, <br /> 631 but when it comes to the planning of how this property that Orange County actually owns right <br /> 632 now,there seems to be a lack of any sense of formal planning, understanding how this property <br /> 633 might be used for the future,for example, I was asked to study the old jail at one time, and did a <br /> 634 formal study for asset management several years ago. I believe what the county did in building a <br /> 635 new jail was totally appropriate; however, sitting in the center of Hillsborough is an old building, <br /> 636 the jail, empty,4 1/2, 5 years later. No plans, no reviews on even that or other buildings in <br /> 637 Orange County and how they will integrate or affect the future development of our county have <br /> 638 been undertaken. I think this may be something between asset management and us and the <br /> 639 county commissioners to look at for the future or in best use for the future and the county. I do not <br /> 640 see anything being done about that, so I raise that as an issue to put on the table. <br /> 641 <br /> 642 Lamar Proctor: I guess that raised in my mind what, are there buildings owned by the county that are not in use <br /> 643 that are kind of like ripe for redesign or redevelopment. <br /> 644 <br /> 645 Statler Gilfillen: The Whitted building is empty. <br /> 646 <br /> 647 Perdita Holtz: This is the Whitted building. <br /> 648 <br /> 649 Statler Gilfillen: Or not the Whitted building, the Link Center. <br /> 650 <br /> 651 Perdita Holtz: Which you may or may not realize this, but there is in fact, asset management has an inventory of <br /> 652 all the buildings, and there have been various studies through the years, and I am really not sure <br /> 653 that it is the purview of the Planning Board to comment on County buildings in Hillsborough's <br /> 654 jurisdiction, but leave it up to you to, if you want to add that as an emergent issue, I will put it in <br /> 655 there. <br /> 656 <br />