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LAW OFFICES <br />COLEMAN, GLEDHILL & HARGRAVE <br />A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION <br />129 E. TRYON STREET <br />P. O. DRAWER 1529 <br />HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 <br />919.732-2196 March 1 8, 1 9 9 7 <br />FAX 919-732-7997 <br />Representative Joe Hackney <br />Representative Verla C. Insko <br />Senator Eleanor Kinnaird <br />Senator Howard Lee <br />State Legislative Building <br />Raleigh, North Carolina 27611 <br />RE: Legislation of Orange County <br />Dear Representatives and Senators: <br />13 <br />FROM THE DESK OF <br />GEOFFREY E. GLEDHILL <br />The Board of Commissioners of Orange County has asked me to <br />request that you introduce five local bills during the 1997 <br />session of the General Assembly. Each of these bills covers a <br />matter of importance to Orange County. They are addressed in the <br />enclosed Resolutions. <br />Orange County conducted a public hearing on legislative <br />matters on March 5, 1997. The Board of Commissioners appreciates <br />Senator Kinnaird attending that public hearing to hear, first- <br />hand, the comments made by the people of Orange County. <br />There were a number of speakers attending the public hearing <br />who spoke in support of legislation which would enable Orange <br />County to expand the coverage of its Civil Rights Ordinance to <br />prohibit discrimination based on a person being heterosexual, <br />homosexual or bisexual. The Orange County Human Relations <br />Commission supports this legislative initiative. The Chair of <br />the Commission presented it and spoke for the Commission in <br />support of it. This legislative initiative has also been <br />supported by and continues to be supported by the Town Council of <br />Chapel Hill and the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Carrboro. <br />Orange County did receive one letter in opposition to including <br />protection for persons who are homosexual. <br />There was also support, presented orally and in writing, for <br />a local act which would clarify that Orange County, by exercising <br />its planning and zoning authority, can regulate pesticide use <br />more stringently than the North Carolina Pesticide Board. The <br />zoning regulations contemplated by the County in this regard have <br />to do principally with the use of pesticides in land uses such as <br />golf courses, the monitoring of their use, insuring that persons <br />qualified to use pesticides are the ones using them and requiring <br />persons using pesticides to provide notice to those likely to <br />encounter pesticides of their use, for example by sign following <br />pesticide spraying. <br />