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Page 1 of 1 <br />80 <br />Tom Altieri <br />From: JB Culpepper [jbculpepper@townofchapelhill.org] <br />Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:54 PM <br />To: Craig Benedict <br />Gc: Roger Waldon; David Bonk; Tom Altieri <br />Subject: Comp Plan Update Courtesy Review Comments <br />Craig -Thank you for providing time for us to complete our staff courtesy review of the Orange County <br />Comprehensive Plan Update. The Mayor provided a letter to Orange County in June stating our <br />understanding that the County's Plan Update does not propose any major changes to existing/current <br />policy directions and it does not include specific implementation recommendations. The Mayor asked <br />the staff to review the Plan Update. With our review, we also found no major changes proposed to <br />policy direction. <br />We do have a general comment on the County's Plan Update to provide: We found that there seems to <br />be an existing inconsistency between the strategy of promoting economic development at the three <br />development zones along I-85/I-40 and the stated goal of also encouraging the use of alternative modes <br />of transportation, transit, bilce and walk, through mixed use, transit friendly development. If future non <br />rural growth outside of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough is going to be limited to those economic <br />development zones, they do not appear to lend themselves to mixed use or to the provision of transit <br />services. It is also unclear who would provide the high levels of transit service necessary to support and <br />promote non auto mobility in these development areas. <br />Please let us know if you have any questions and, again, thank you for providing this opportunity, JB <br />,, ~ ~ a JB Culpepper <br /> Planning Director <br />r <br />.l ' <br />~" Town of Chanel HiII <br />- 405 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd <br /> Chapel Hill, NC 27514-5705 <br />Phone: (919) 968-2728 <br />Fax: (919) 969-2014 <br />9/23/2008 <br />