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General Contents The Draft Comprehensive Plan includes the following Elements: 2 • County Profile (Data) • Parks and Recreation • Economic Development Services (Utilities) and Community • Housing Facilities • Land Use Transportation • .Natural and Cultural Systems Recommendations are also provided in the draft Comprehensive Plan that addresses the administration, implementation, and monitoring of the Plan that will need to take place following its adoption. The draft plan does not include specific implementation recommendations; work on those will start once this Plan with its framework of goals, objectives, and linkages is adopted. There are no changes to the County's Land Use Plan (Map) or land use categories incorporated into the draft Plan. This Plan update effort is designed to establish a common data base, to pull together existing ideas and information that heretofore have been scattered among a series of topic-specific plans and documents, and to set the stage for subsequent community discussions about implementation strategies. Public Access to Materials All key documents that have been produced during development of the draft Comprehensive Plan, including materials that outline the planning process, have been posted on the County's website. Following is the address to the Comprehensive Plan Update Webpage: www.co.orange.nc.us/planning/compre_cpupdate.asp PLANNING BOARD RECOMMENDATION: At its October 1, 2008 regular meeting, the Planning Board unanimously recommended adoption of the draft Comprehensive Plan to include the revisions reflected in the Planning Board's Table of Proposed Revisions, which was provided in the October 7th BOCC meeting agenda packet. BOCC WORK SESSION: The BOCC held a work session on October 14th to review the Planning Board's proposed text revisions and to convey its required revisions to staff. Staff has prepared Attachment 1, draft BOCC Table of Revisions, which is intended to capture the direction staff received at the work session. In some cases the BOCC is considering changes to the text that has been recommended by the Planning Board. In these cases, the language suggested by the Planning Board is provided and BOCC revisions "tracked" (~~~~'-°+"r^~ ~^" and new text underlined). Attachment 2 includes the Planning Board's proposed revisions, minus the line items that have been revised based on direction received from the BOCC. Notations have been provided in Attachment 2 to delineate the specific line items that the BOCC is revising. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no direct fiscal impact associated with this item. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Administration recommends conveying any final changes to the draft Comprehensive Plan that may be required by the Board prior to the Plan, with revisions, being placed on the November 18th BOCC meeting agenda for adoption consideration.