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To the Orange County Commissioners, <br /> With regard to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to be reviewed at tonight's Board of <br /> County Commissioners quarterly meeting, Preserve Rural Orange requests that you extend the <br /> UDO decision-making process to ensure that citizens understand the proposed changes and <br /> have opportunities to respond after the meeting and before changes are adopted. In particular, <br /> we are concerned with new language on conditional zoning which appears to allow for <br /> increased development without the protection of the special use permit application process used <br /> previously for planned developments. <br /> The UDO is a very large document, requiring considerable time for non-experts to navigate. We <br /> ask you to seek feedback from the public following the quarterly meeting, in order to give <br /> citizens a chance to respond to specific issues raised by BOCC and Planning Board members <br /> and to understand fully the potential impacts of proposed changes. <br /> Thank you, <br /> -Laura Streitfeld <br /> Laura Streitfeld <br /> Chair, Board of Directors, Preserve Rural Orange <br /> Email info @preserveruralorange.org <br /> Phone (919) 801-7294 <br /> Preserve Rural Orange <br /> P.O. Box 1314 <br /> Carrboro, NC 27510 <br /> From: gkneeb @aol.com <br /> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:04:19 -0500 <br /> Subject: UDO proposal needs further consideration and input <br /> To: bjacobs @co.orange.nc.us, bpelissier @co.orange.nc.us, gordon.alice @gmail.com, <br /> mikenelsonnc @aol.com, phemminger @bellsouth.net, syuhasz @co.orange.nc.us, <br /> vfoushee@co.orange.nc.us <br /> Cc: pennyrich.ch @gmail.com, randee.haven-odonnell @da.org <br /> November 21,2010 <br /> Dear Members of the County Board Of Commissioners: <br /> During the November 15, 2010 meeting of the Chapel Hill Town Council, I noted Penny <br /> Rich's request for further information regarding the Unified Development Ordinance which is <br /> being discussed during your November 22 meeting. <br /> As the organizer for a group of citizens who are concerned about the proposed Obey <br /> Creek project in Southern Chapel Hill, I am curious as to the impact this new process will have <br /> on the rural buffer and extraterritorial districts in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br /> A search on the Chapel Hill News and Carrboro Citizen websites show only one <br /> reference to this major endeavor—an <br /> announcement of a public hearing in August. The article announced <br />