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<br />.apnrot•ed: 10/1 i /89 ?~lI?r`'CTES
<br />OR:'~':GE C011>;TT BOARD OF GO?LtiISSIO?HERS '
<br />SPECIAL ASEETI?~G
<br />AUGtiST 31, 1989
<br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in special session on August 31, 1989
<br />at 6:00 p.. m. at the Colonial Inn in Hillsborough, AC. The purpose of the meeting was to
<br />receive the recommended strategy for-tlie rural areas of Orange Gaunt3- from consultant
<br />Lane hendig.
<br />BOARD MEhiBF,RS PRESENT: Chairman Moses Carey, Jr.., and Cammissioiiers Stephen
<br />Halkiatis, and Shirley E. Marshall.
<br />BOARD _MEMBERS ABSENT: Commissioners Dan killhoit and John Hartwell
<br />~-T1'ORNEY I?RESENT: Geuf~'rey Gledhill
<br />STAFF PRESENT: County Managet• John ~1. Link, Jr., Clerk to the Board Beverly A.
<br />Blythe, Deputy Clerk to the Board Kathy Baker, Planners David Stanch , Gene Bell, and
<br />Emily Crudup, and Recreation and Parks Director Mary Ann Blacl:.
<br />PLANNING I30ARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Planning Board Chairman Earrr Jacobs, and Flannin;
<br />Eoard members Virginia Boland, Betty Eidenier, Chris Best, Dan Eddleman, and A.C.
<br />Cantrell.
<br />RURAL CHARACTER STUDY COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT: Bill Alcinous, Chairman, Bub _
<br />Strayhorn, Carl halters, David Swanson, ~iinert•a Fienyon, Dolly Hunter, l"ice Chair,
<br />Lorraine Parker, Birk Pelland, Carole Crumle~-, Judson Edeburn, Ed Holland, Lit~y
<br />Ludington, and Kendal Brown.
<br />OPENING REMARY.S BX BOARD CHAIR:
<br />Chairman Carey made introductory remarks and announced that this meeting is to
<br />publicly rot=iew same of the recommendations from the Rural Character Studti. It is
<br />important to stimulate a broad understanding of how then- af'_'ect ti--e County, and to reach
<br />definitive decisions on which of the recommer:d::ticns to follo~.. .1t this meeting it is
<br />hoped that these matters will be deliberated on, viehs will be shared, snd yuesticns
<br />raised. Hopefull~•, the people in attendance at this riEeting wi.il i~ell, at1~:Ers understand
<br />the recommendations.
<br />Lane kendig, President of Lane 1•:endig, Inc., bEaan his presentation by recapping
<br />the process that,had been followed up to this point and clarif;:ing where the process
<br />will .go from here. ~•The process used was one of taking the rural study directives and
<br />going to the people and finding out what thier concerns were ?his was done by going
<br />to different townships and addressing the issues with the citizens. Some of tl;e issues
<br />discussed with residents were agricultural preservation, resource presert•atian, z•isual.
<br />resource protection and growth management. :lfter meeting with the people and hearing
<br />their concerns a series of issue papers were developed. Tiie first of those papers
<br />outlined the rural area issues. The second one dealt ~:ith implementation strategies,
<br />and the third one dealt with community character issues. Those issue papers were tal~en
<br />back to. the townships for another series of meetings to help participants understand the
<br />alternatives. There are a series of alternatives, including large lot zoning of more
<br />than 10 acres, cluster zoning, transferable development rights, etc. mother series of
<br />non-re;ulatorp elements was also studied, such as acouisition of fee sictple, purchase
<br />agreements of development rights, conservation easements, etc. Thor also leaked at
<br />various sources of funding for those acquisitions. Same of those sources are tl~,e
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