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Excerpt of Minutes ~ 3~t <br />Approved IO/1/08 <br />149 Mich~i Harvey. You would make a recomr~ndatron to approve or deny this and asked the Board of Comity <br />1 SO Comrus~ioners direct the Managers off~e, Planning, Health Deparbnent begin the process of establishing rx>fresive <br />1 S 1 acrd oarrprehensive pollees that would esser>tiaNy n3quur3 the county UD go thrxrgh a srmrlar process of review. <br />1S2 <br />1S3 Ctaufurd Goodwin: Beautifully expressed. <br />1S4 <br />1 SS Renee Price: The one other issue is oversight and who actually has the final signoff. <br />156 <br />1 S7 Michael Harvey: We don't issue a zoning onmp6ance permit urrtG ~ know that aA the permits will be issued. We are <br />1S8 the ulfiinabe catchall. <br />1S9 . <br />160 Renee Price: Mostly the oversight. <br />161 <br />162 Judith Wegner. his better to put it in terms of a policy. What other parts of the orrirrances are directed inward? <br />163 <br />164 Brian Crawford: I can go with the policy tomzat as opposed to an oefinance if that policy is clear as opposed to <br />16S something buried in the minutes somewhere so the public will feel the sense the county is following the same game <br />166 plan as everyone else. ~ • <br />167 <br />168 Renee Price: Without the rules and the regulations? <br />169 <br />170 Brian Crawford: i can live with a pot'~cy statement. <br />171 <br />172 Robert Davis: Would it be somethng that Environmental Health would need to put in their rules? <br />173 <br />174 NGchael Harvey Envronmental Health issues the pem~t but it is based on state law and slate standards. If we have <br />17S a kocai policy, as I am hearing from the group, that the aunty woul assume the move rigorous policy standard for <br />17b submitting addiltorr~ information to Environmental Health to secure a permit based on the concerns I am hearing. <br />177 <br />178 Brian Crawford: ff DENR turns it doom, they will not get it anyway, right? <br />179 <br />180 Michael Harvey If one department turns down the permit, it Hn'q not be issued. <br />181 <br />182 Joel Knight I think what makes everyone uncomfortable is that we saw fit io put this requirement in and then we are <br />183 being asked to allow the county to do what they want. We should have a policy to let tts public know that the county <br />184 will follow the same ales we wGl. <br />185 <br />186 Morrow Craufurd Goodwin b approve the ordinance and the Planning Board request the Soars of County <br />187 Commissioners to direct the Manager of the Planning Department and the Orange County Heatth Department th <br />188 devise and develop a comprehensive set of rules, guidelines and policies th address large ground absorption <br />189 systems for county Projects tJO ensure compli~ce with any and aq standards to promote established gods and <br />190 policies of the Comprehensive Plan and Environment tesponsib(e.. Seconded by Judith Wegner. <br />191 Vo7E: Unanlnous <br />192 <br />