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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 @ 10:03 AM

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Hi everyone:

Thanks to all of you for your assistance to date on Butte County General Plan 2030. With your participation, we recently completed Workshop Series #1 (Existing Conditions and Issues Identification) with our Board of Supervisors on May 8th, 2007. It was an excellent review and discussion of the Assets and Issues of Butte County, as well as the workshop series process itself. Through the process, we gathered 213 Assets and 413 Issues. For a recap, you can visit our eBinder at http://www.buttegeneralplan.net/ebinder and view the information for this meeting date.

What’s next? On Thursday, May 17th at 6 pm, we begin Workshop Series #2 – Alternatives Development. This is a critical part of the process where we build upon the identified Assets/Issues to create a range of alternatives. In fact, we had planned 3 Workshop Series to accomplish this, but since the work on the 1st Workshop Series was so productive, we intend to compress Series 2 and 3 together. This will allow us to provide for the creation of three alternatives, prior to the selection of a ‘Preferred Alternative’ (Workshop Series #4). You might want to review the Tasks/Workshop Series process page at http://www.buttegeneralplan.net/tasks .

Have we been in your community lately? Butte County Department of Development Services staff has held Area Wide and Community meetings to create a connection with citizens about their communities and Butte County General Plan 2030. So far, we’ve held 9 meetings in various parts of the county. To get a sense of these meetings, you can visit http://www.buttegeneralplan.net/meetings.asp to view meeting summaries and photos.

It has been wonderful to experience county residents embrace the process. We look forward to your continued involvement as we move our journey out to the ‘open sea’

and engage in the excellent public process of debate about important issues surrounding Butte County General Plan 2030.

For more information about Butte County General Plan 2030, please visit http://www.buttegeneralplan.net today. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call Dan Breedon at 530-538-7629 or me at 530-538-6821. We look forward to seeing you or hearing from you soon.

Sincerely, Tim Snellings, Director

Butte County Department of Development Services