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Excerpt of Approved Planning Board Minutes 51 1 MINUTES 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 3 APRIL 7,2010 4 REGULAR MEETING 5 MeMeeRS PReseNT: Brian Crawford (Chair), At-Large, Eno Township; Samantha Cabe, Chapel Hill Township Representative; 6 Jeffrey Schmitt,Cedar Grove Township Representative; Larry Wright,At-Large,Cedar Grove Township; Peter Hallenbeck, 7 At-Large,Cheeks Township;May Becker,At-Large Chapel Hill Township;Mark Marcoplos,At-Large,Bingham Township; 8 9 10 MEMBERS ABSENT: Judith Wegner (Vice-Chair), Bingham Township Representative; Tommy McNeill, Eno Township 11 Representative; Earl McKee, Little River Township Representative; Mary Bobbitt-Cooke, Cheek Township Representative; 12 Rachel Hawkins,Hillsborough Township Representative; 13 14 15 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Perdita Holtz, Planning Systems Coordinator;Tom Altieri, Comprehensive 16 Planning Supervisor;Michael Harvey,Zoning Administration;Tina Love,Administrative Assistant II; 17 18 19 (Documents handed out to Planning Board: F�ecutive Summary-Inventory of Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitats for Orange 20 Counry;Letter to Craig Benedict from Orange-Alamance Water Systems Orange Counry Bicycle Map) 21 22 23 AGENDA(TEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 24 25 *�.**��**..�**�..**.,*,***�..****..*.****..*�****, 26 27 2g AGENDA ITEM 7: ZONING ORDINANCES AND ATLAS AMENDMENT AND COMPREHENSIVE PLAN—LAND USE ELEMENT TEXT AND 29 MAP AMENDMENT 30 To review and make a recommendation to the BOCC on the proposed te�and map amendments heard 31 at the February 22 Quarterly Public Hearing regarding Watershed Protection Overlay District changes in 32 the Upper Eno watershed. 33 Presenter: Craig Benedict,Planning Director 34 35 Craig Benedict: Last month we went through this item with straw votes. For the purpose of bringing the chair up to speed I will 36 go over the information from last month. This is a summary of the watershed amendments that we discussed. We reviewed all 37 these maps. Everyone was pretry unanimous on most of the sections. On Map 2.6,there were some questions. Tonight we will 38 go over Map 2.7. This is about the Upper Eno Watershed. Here are the limits of the boundary. 39 40 Craig Benedict: Section 2.1 had to do with the state required buffers around the Class I reservoirs. Lake Ben Johnson, the 41 water supply intake for Hillsborough and Corporation Lake, the intake for Orange Alamance Water Supply. i did meet with 42 Orange Alamance Water supply people to discuss these amendments and other issues with the water supply within the Efland 43 area. 44 45 Craig Benedict: Section 2.2 dealt with putting half mile buffers around Class II reservoirs which is Lake Orange and the West 46 Fork on the Eno. That is something that is not required by the state but that is what we had in the 1994 rules and we are adding 47 better definitions to explain that. Section 2.3 was adding the Eno River between these two reservoirs;they are both fourth order 48 and higher streams. The initial tributary flowing into a stream is the first order,two first order flowing together create a second 49 order and two second order create a third order. Everyone agreed that"what value is it to protect water supplies up here and go 50 into unprotected areas". Item 2.4 was using fifth order streams that flow into these Class I Resenroirs. This is Seven Mile Creek 51 and the Upper Eno. Item 2.4,we did make an amendment to an area in here. This originally using the half mile from Seven Mile 52 Creek north of the I-85 interchange and you can see from the red line,which is the 1994 line,to this dotted red line,we will be 53 pulling it out of Efland Mebane Small Area Plan. It was also discussed by staff and the board that it would be reasonable cut off 54 south of I-85 to the West Ten Road because a lot of the water in this area flows north for a while and then back in. It was 55 agreed,almost unanimously, to include that West Ten area. Section 2.5 was using some third or fourth order streams that are 56 nearby these Class I reservoirs. This area here, Rocky Run,was not really included in the 1994 study but we found it to be a 57 very important stream. There was discussion on this 2.6 area because we are doing third order streams and there was a 58 question about Panther Branch and that is,should be we include Panther Branch's section along with the other definitions. Even 59 though there was a majority straw vote to leave it in,there was some discussion so I had Erosion Control take a look.... 60 61 Jeffrey Schmitt; What is the point being made?