ORD-2010-025 Upper Eno Watershed Critical Area-Zoning Ordinance

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5 • Notification letters - one for property owners whose property is proposed for inclusion into the Critical Area (approximately 400 individual owners) - one for property owners whose property is proposed for removal from the Critical Area (approximately 265 individual owners) • Notification postcards (6" x 11") for property owners within 500-feet of affected property (approximately 1,010 individual owners) • The proof of the notification .signs (sign is 24" tall x 32" wide, mounted on a wire "H" frame) and photos of three posted signs • A map showing locations of posted signs Additional Public Outreach Efforts Planning staff will hold an "open house" style Public Information Meeting on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 to provide interested persons the opportunity to speak one-on-one with Planning staff in an informal setting. The meeting will be held in the new West Campus County Office Building at 131 W. Margaret Lane in Hillsborough from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. A staff presentation will be made at 5:30 p.m. Notice of this Public Information Meeting was included in the legal ad, mailed notification letters/postcards, and on the website created for this project. . Planning staff created a website for the project to provide information and maps to interested persons. The site was up and running beginning on Friday, February 5, 2010 at: http://www.co.orange. nc.us/plannino/CriticalAreaAmendments.asp Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee: Staff presented the proposed amendments to the Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee (ORC) on January 6, 2010. The Summary Notes for the meeting are included in Attachment 6. The ORC's main concern is the possibility that formally removing the previously identified potential reservoirs from County-designated Critical Area protection may preclude construction of future reservoirs. Planning staff has pointed out: • There are other potential- reservoir sites in Orange County slated for future use as reservoirs (i.e., quarry site on Highway 57 and American Stone quarry site on Highway 54) • The County has an allocation of one million gallons per day from Jordan Lake which is not being exercised at this time. It is possible to use this water through existing inter- . connections and inter-local agreements (to be developed) in the future if necessary or desirable. • Amending the Critical Area line does not preclude future development of an additional reservoir(s) in the Upper Eno watershed. Rather, if a reservoir were constructed in the future, the Critical Area boundary could be amended as needed at that future time. • The County-designated Critical Areas continue. to protect the vast majority of potential reservoir sites in the Upper Eno watershed.