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DRAFT
<br /> 151 Lamar Proctor: And does anyone have any additional comments at this time? Hearing none, we'll move
<br /> 152 to Agenda Item 7, the land use plan for 2050. And I think Tom Altieri has a presentation
<br /> 153 for us. Thank you, Tom.
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<br /> 155 AGENDA ITEM 7: LAND USE PLAN 2050—To respond to a request for information made by the Planning
<br /> 156 Board at its December 2025 meeting.
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<br /> 158 (The memo associated with this item was emailed to Planning Board members on
<br /> 159 February 18 with a request to review the information and come prepared to the March 4
<br /> 160 meeting with any questions and/or items for discussion.)
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<br /> 162 Tom Altieri: Yes. Thank you. Good evening. Tom Altieri, Orange County Senior Planner. The
<br /> 163 planning board requested information that the county commissioners received at its
<br /> 164 retreats last November. The subject matter covered at those two retreats had to deal with
<br /> 165 community septic, wastewater treatment, groundwater resources. Those are the items
<br /> 166 covered during the November 14th retreat. And then on the 21 st, conservation
<br /> 167 subdivisions. The board about 2 weeks ago received a little bit of homework conveyed by
<br /> 168 Perdita Holtz. The memo that's in your packet tonight was provided in advance with some
<br /> 169 links to the previous agenda materials for those retreats, an audio, and a video. Hope
<br /> 170 you've had an opportunity to look at those. If you haven't, the good news, the notes that
<br /> 171 were taken at those retreats are also in your packet. We did have a representative from
<br /> 172 Clarion attend those meetings, and the notes are quite good and they're thorough. So,
<br /> 173 you'll have those as a resource, as well, going forward in the future. And I do know a few
<br /> 174 of the planning board members were also able to attend those retreats. They both
<br /> 175 occurred on a Friday during working hours, so it was certainly a difficult time for many to
<br /> 176 be there. In fact, I missed the first one myself and was out of town. Cy had mentioned,
<br /> 177 under next steps, the retreat on the 21 st. I don't know, in that list of your calendar items, if
<br /> 178 next Tuesday, March 10th was mentioned, but there is a commissioner work session on
<br /> 179 the 10th, and Cy and I have an item late on the agenda. Staff has updated the fact book,
<br /> 180 which you may recall was a very early deliverable from Clarion for the land use plan. It's
<br /> 181 essentially a data book. Some new information, some data was released from the US
<br /> 182 Census, the American Community Survey. So, about 40 percent of that fact book has
<br /> 183 been updated with that information. The original fact book, I think, was from 2023, so it's
<br /> 184 got roughly 2 years of new data in the updated fact book, and then we also updated it with
<br /> 185 some more recent building activity that had occurred. So, we'll have a brief presentation
<br /> 186 on it on Tuesday to the commissioners, as well as some additional housing information
<br /> 187 that has been collected. Just a little more on next steps; I wanted to make sure that the
<br /> 188 planning board understood that there is some work to do, some administrative work, if you
<br /> 189 would, once the commissioners give us the green light to proceed and begin scheduling
<br /> 190 outreach. As you know, they've been receiving informational presentations since
<br /> 191 September of last year, and so once they give us the green light, so to speak, we'll need
<br /> 192 to work with our consultant on a contract amendment, get that before the board to have it
<br /> 193 approved. Anything we learn from the commissioners in terms of changes they may want
<br /> 194 to see to the preliminary draft plan before we take it out for that third and final round of
<br /> 195 engagement, the consultant will need to make those changes to the draft, and then we'll
<br /> 196 need to schedule our outreach meetings and get materials prepared for those, and then of
<br /> 197 course notify the public in advance so that they can attend. So, there's some work there
<br /> 198 to be done. And then just a final notation, you may have picked up on it; we've been
<br /> 199 adding a note to all of our abstracts, why does Orange County need a land use plan
<br /> 200 update? And the board is well aware of that, and won't get into, but essentially, it's to stay
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