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ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: November 25.2002
Action Agenda
Item No.
SUBJECT• Update on Orange County Comprehensive Plan -Land Use Element
DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections
PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No
ATTACHMENT(S):
' ~ INFORMATION CONTACT:
Craig N. Benedict, ext. 2592
TELEPHONE
Hillsborough
Chapel Hill
Durham
Mebane
NUMBERS:
732-8181
968-4501
688-7331
(336)227-2031
PURPOSE:
To provide an update to the Board of County Commissioners and the general public on the
progress of the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element.
BACKGROUND:
The Board of County Commissioners appointed the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Committee
(CPLUC) this spring to understand the growth management challenges that lie ahead for Orange
County: The Committee was to hear about existing and future conditions and assist the county in
gauging the implications of various growth management tools. It is the intent of this part of the
process to include as many options as possible for discussion with the most efficient and/or
effective tools being narrowed down and recommended after a thorough discussion is completed
through the public hearing process. In this manner the combination or synergy of the collection of
tools can be considered comprehensively.
Following is a rough outline of the activities to date:
Analyzed 2000 census data;
2. Analyzed historic trends (1980-2000);
3. Reported existing conditions and projected future conditions;
4. Discussed critical negative development impacts;
a. increasing vehicle miles traveled (vmt);
b. subdivision dispersion;
c. critical water resources and watershed hazards; and
d. sprawl byproducts.
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5. Determined growth impacts and challenges (13 topics);
6. Reported examples and discussed growth management tools;
7. Linked Shaping Orange County's Future (SOCF) suggestions to growth management
toolbox;
8. Suggested primary growth management initiatives to resolve development impacts;
9. In process of Comprehensive Plan Land Use Committee discussing implications of
various tools; and
10. In process of developing an all-inclusive list of growth management scenarios and
actions with associated implications for discussion at a public hearing.
The Planning Director will elaborate on various aspects of the CPLUC material and process. It is
not intended that the CPLUC report be forwarded to the Commissioners until the Committee can
fully discuss issues of their concern.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
None at this time.
RECOMMENDATION(S):
The Administration recommends the Board receive the report.
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