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<br />MINUTES
<br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
<br />FEBRUARX 21, 1977
<br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met jointly with the
<br />Orange County Planning Board and the Orange County Planning Staff on
<br />Monday, February 21, 1977, at 6:00 p.m., in the Agriculture Building
<br />at Hillsborough.
<br />Members present from the Board of Commissioners were Chairman
<br />Richard Whitted, Commissioners Norman Gustaveson, Jan Pinney, Norman
<br />Walker and Donald Willhoit.
<br />Members of the Orange County Planning Beard present were Marilyn
<br />Riddle Jean Anderson, .pr. Robert, John Scarlett, Paul Gates, Lindsey
<br />Efland, Col. William Breeze, Pat Crawford, Andrew Dobelstein, Art
<br />Cleary, Hazel Lunsford, and Charles Johnston.
<br />Members from the Orange County Planning Staff were. Ervin Dobson,
<br />Planning Direcotr, Ghris Edwards, Hal Minis, Kathy Hoffer and Quinton
<br />Patterson.
<br />Others present were S. M. Gattis, County Manager, Neal Evans,
<br />Finance Director, Ebert Pierce, Agriculture Extension Chairman, C. A.
<br />Laws, Sanitation with the Health Department, Blaine Liner, a member of
<br />the Chapel Hill Planning Board, and Agatha Johnson, Clerk to the Board.
<br />Chairman Whitted welcomed the group to the meeting and expressed
<br />his appreciation, on behalf of the Berard of Commissioners, to the
<br />Planning Board for agreeing to serve in this capacity. He stated that
<br />there wasa mutual need for understanding between members of the Planning
<br />Board and Staff and the County Commissioners in order that all might be
<br />sure of the priorities in planning matters and to know just where planning
<br />is going, in general, in Orange County.
<br />Mr. Whitted informed the group that in December, the .Commissioners
<br />met with the Planning Staff in a work session and outlines a list of
<br />the Board's objectives for the future. Some of the priorities the
<br />Board set forth were to develop data for land use planning, to enlarge
<br />the then existing Planning Board, to extend the Subdivision Regulations
<br />County-wide and to extend Zoning to certain townships in the County.
<br />He stated that the Planning Board and Staff had since developed the
<br />new Ordinance creating the new Planning Board and the Commissioners have
<br />adopted this Ordinance.
<br />Chairman Whitted asked the Planning Director, Ervin Dobson, to
<br />speak of the Planned Work Program, which was recently presented to
<br />the Board of Commissioners.
<br />Mr. Dobson reviewed the progress of the Planning Work Program. He
<br />stated that the maps, overlays and legends, which are used as planning
<br />tools, will be complete and in usable form by March 15, 1977. These
<br />tools are important in developing land use data. A second priority was
<br />to enlarge the County Planning Board which has been accomplished. The
<br />educational/training program of the Planning Board will be a continuous
<br />process. The Planning Staff is developing a Library for planning use.
<br />The Planning Director also hopes to have joint planning meetings with
<br />the Town of Chapel Hill and Carrboro with a speaker forum type situation.
<br />He urged the new Planning Board members to use their Planning Notebooks
<br />as a general aid to planning matters.
<br />The third priority is concerning the County Subdivision Regulations.
<br />He stated that a work session has been scheduled for the Technical Sub-
<br />committee for Wednesday, at 12:00 Noon, February 23, 1977, at the
<br />Municipal Building in Chapel Hill. The long range goad is to have the
<br />new Subdivision Regulations in draft form by fall of this year.
<br />The fcurth priority is to work on putting the Planning Advisory
<br />Councils into place in each township. The first Advisory Council is
<br />to be established in Bingham Township. The Planning Director stressed
<br />the need for citizen's input on the Advisory Councils. He stated that
<br />citizens were needed to serve on these councils who could relate to
<br />the problems in their area.
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