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~' ORANGE 0O0NTY ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM TO: Board of County Commissioners Planning Board FROM: Environment & Resource Conservation Advisory Boards and staff DATE: August 12, 2008 RE: Revisions to Natural and Cultural Systems Element of Comprehensive Plan This memorandum is designed to accompany the attached table of revisions for the Natural and Cultural Systems Element of the Comprehensive Plan, as discussed by the three lead advisory boards for the Element (the Agricultural Preservation Board, Commission for the Environment and the Historic Preservation Commission). The boards met jointly with Roger Waldon of Clarion in March of 2008 to discuss an initial draft of the element. Based on this discussion, staff and the advisory boards made several revisions to the Element. These revisions focused on three main areas: 1) providing a more substantial and inclusive history of the county in the Summary, 2) reorganizing the Cultural Resources chapter to place information on the National Register in the beginning of the section on programs, and 3) other minor edits, corrections and additions. The draft Natural and Cultural Systems Element (NCSE) submitted to Clarion for the May 19tH hearing reflected these changes, and for the most part the advisory boards have been satisfied with the Element as reworked for the hearing. As often occurs, however, some of the revisions appear to have been °lost in translation" during the exchange with the consultant, probably due to confusion around the ~~track changes" tool used to document changes. All three advisory boards considered the May 19tH draft NCSE at their May and June meetings. The Commission for the Environment suggested minor changes and corrections as shown in the following chart. The Agricultural Preservation Board and Historic Preservation Commission reiterated their approval (by consensus) of the draft that they submitted in April, with a few exceptions. Each board requested a modification to one of its objectives-one in the Agricultural Chapter (as suggested at the Board of Commissioners worksession in June), and one in the Cultural Resources Chapter. These are also shown in the attached table. Finally, when comparing the April draft of the NCSE with the version presented for the May public hearing, ERCD staff noticed a few discrepancies. A couple of maps were missing in the Summary section and the Cultural Resources Chapter reorganization left some missing sections and/or duplications. There were also a few areas where text was rewritten or phrases added. In most cases these changes added to the overall work, but in a few instances the revisions Recommended revisions to the May 19 2008 Natural & Cultura/Systems E/ement Page 1 of Z