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Number 2 that the Planning Board recommends that the staff meet with any of the interested other municipalities in the County during the month of January to provide them with information and to solicit their input. Number 3 that the Planning Board commits itself to submit to the Board of County Commissioners substantive recommendations by the middle of February so that the Board of Commissioners can determine whether it would like to calendar a further discussion of those matters for the end of February scheduled public hearing. Number 4 that the Planning Board recommends that the planning staff hold an additional outreach meeting by the end of January to inform the public more fully about issues, particularly Conditional Districts and Conditional Use Districts. Number 5 that the Planning Board further commits itself to develop a proposal for the priorities among the continuing issues to be considered in part two of this process and will advise the Board of County Commissioners about its recommendation by mid-March on that point." Craig Benedict went through the handout. Option 2A would keep the public hearing open until March 15th to accept the Planning Board recommendation. The Planning Board recommendation would be made on February 2nd. This means having meetings in January and addressing conditional use and in early February on stream buffers. The Planning Board recommendation would be made to the Board of County Commissioners on February 151h. If everything goes well then, the public hearing would stay open until March 15th and the County Commissioners could vote on it that night. Option 2B is the same except that the public hearing would be open until February 28th to hear more oral comments from the public and refer that to the County Commissioners in April. He said that there is some difficulty in Option 2B and that is that comments heard at the potential public hearing in late February would have to be turned around for the Planning Board to react to them two days later. The public testimony on November 22nd was all very positive. PUBLIC COMMENT: Stan Cheren read a prepared statement on behalf of Orange County Voice. OCV Statement on the Unified Development Ordinance December 14th, 2010 Good evening. My name is Stan Cheren and I am speaking on behalf of OCV. We thank you for considering an extension to the UDO timeline, which among other things, allows more time for public review and comment. We respectfully request that the board extend the public hearing to February 28th and secure at least one public outreach session to inform the public on conditional use and zoning districts and other important zoning changes that potentially impact rural zoning and the rural buffer. Since all rural residents are directly impacted by the UDO, we ask that the outreach session be held in a location that's easily accessible from the north and southwest. If only one session is planned, a Hillsborough location would work well.