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�. 58 2 3. 4- Special Use Permit Public Hearings. He said that the Board would have 5' a checklist of findings which the applicant will have to meet in order °e to be granted a special use permit and those findings were listed in 1. the Zoning Ordinance. `'• The Board reached a Consensus that the special use permit public hearings should be continued so that the Planning Board could make a -0- recommendation to the Board of Commissioners based on information re- ceived at the public hearing. Agenda Item 5: Report on Orange 2unty's Hospital Needs Mr. Wilbur Morse, Chair of the Health and Medical Care Advisory Com- mittee, summarized the written report the.Board received from that Corm$t- ,se in June on the "Hospital Needs of Orange County." The Committee made several findings, summarized as fallow: 1) a surplus of hospital beds currently exists in Orange County which will not be eliminated until 1986.87; 2) facilities are of high quality; high technology; 3) facilities are accessible to citizens of (orange County; 4) quality service is available to the disadvantaged; 5) cost of services is camnensurate with the re-- j inainder of the State and the South and lower than than those costs in the 22. North; 6) some of the facilities are not available to some patients, i.e. `a' those physicians who are not on the staff at the teaching hospital. Mr. Morse said scare study needs to be done on the impact a new 25' private hospital might have on Orange County; he said the Hospital Cbr- 26' ration of America held an po option on 30 acres behind Brendles. Commissioner Wallhoit moved, seconded by 0 nlssicner Walker, to accept the initial report from the Health and Medical Care Advisory Cbm- 29' mittee and to request the Coma ttee continue to advise the Board. Vote: �O° Ayes, 5; noes, 0. 31. The Board referred this re part to the County Planning Staff for re-- 32. view and asked them to pinpoint the exact location of the land held by 33° the WA and to do a preliminary study on the impact that realization of 34. the exercise of its option would have on the County. 35° Agenda Item 6: Jail Inspection laport—sheriff Knishk 30° Sheriff Knight discussed the Jail Inspection of August 27, 1981, 37. with the Board. He said a new jail, currently under construction, would 38° solve most of the violations listed on the report (see page of this 39. 40-