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r i A <br />4 <br />Y A RESOLUTION SETTING THE SCOPE OF A PUBLIC HEARING ON POTENTIAL <br />LEGISLATIVE REQUESTS IN 1999 (99- 2- 8/R -10) <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the Council hereby calls a <br />public hearing for February 22, 1999 on potential legislative requests and requests citizens' <br />comments at that hearing on the following potential legislative requests in 1999: <br />1. Authority to require disclosure of names of all contributors to local election campaigns. <br />2. Authority to limit the amount that can be contributed by a person to a local election <br />campaign. (See related report this evening on items 1 and 2.) <br />3. Authority to use video traffic surveillance technology and impose civil penalties based on <br />camera surveillance. <br />4. Authority to regulate the timing and/or number of private development projects under <br />construction within a watershed. <br />5. Authority to prohibit outdoor burning in the Town's extraterritorial jurisdiction. <br />6. Authority to enact an entertainment tax on large entertainment venues. <br />7. Legislation to allow greater regional planning authority. <br />8. Revision to rules requiring poll workers to work all day <br />9. Authority to enter into development agreements as part of the regulation of land use on <br />large tracts including the Horace Williams tract. <br />10. Authority to enact inclusionary zoning. <br />11. Authority to enact additional regulations regarding alcoholic beverages including, among <br />others: regulation of opening and closing hours; regulation of special promotions such as <br />happy hours; and local law enforcement authority to enforce alcohol regulations currently <br />under the jurisdiction of state agents. <br />This the 8`h day of February, 1999. <br />