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Approved 2/2/11 609 Craig Benedict: That has been mentioned as for EDD, in those zones, someone wants to come in and it takes nine months but 610 having this in the new code lets people do some preliminary work and they respond faster to the actual business. 611 612 Andrea Rohrbacher: I like the Conditional Zoning Districts especially what has happened with the economy. It gives developers 613 latitude to pursue an idea knowing they have time and flexibility with economic changes that may give them the opportunity to 614 move ahead at a certain. point or to delay. 615 616 Craig Benedict: That is an excellent point. Larry had asked about time frames. With Conditional Use, you have to do some sort 617 of development activity within one year. In the Conditional Zoning District, you can set your phasing plan. The State recognized 618 that the Conditional Use construct that was authorized by state law put a pinch on a lot of people in this economy so they had 619 two or three local bills to allow for a one year extension. In December, we did not opt out which meant we authorized another 620 one year to 2011 to allow those projects that would have expired to allow them to continue because of the economy. 621 622 Samantha Cabe: Thinking about the emails we received on the eve of the public hearing, I wonder if what scared people was 623 they saw a new zone with all the stars and permitted uses with the MPD-CZ and thinking they are going to allow someone to put 624 this there. 625 626 Judith Wegner: Hearing what we have heard tonight, if we are advising staff about what the high points were and what they 627 should say to the public in the informational session and how them might change their presentation to the Commissioners and 628 develop another two pager to hand out to people, what would we say are the most notable things we have observed about this 629 move to Conditional Use/Conditional Districts. My question would be to go around the room and say if you could say one thing 630 that would be the best way to explain this or make things clearer, what would that be? 631 632 May Becker: I have a question regarding the email the email you sent out and the Conditional Use Districts and floating districts. 633 You are scraping conditional districts? 634 635 Judith Wegner: I had thought that there may be way to do it using different terminology would be helpful to people. If you say 636 floating zones, they would understand these are not formally on the map until you apply for them however; I understand the 637 staffs desire to track the statutory language but the statutory language came in a couple different stages so I am grateful the 638 staff divided this into general then conditional. Also, as to Conditional Zoning Districts, I am very eager to get to the agricultural 639 enterprise it supported because it is initiative that I think has been around fora couple of years and that will be advanced by 640 some of these options. I don't know if there is anything beneficial in your charts. I urge staff to think about pictures as opposed 641 to small words. Anything that will help people absorb conception of what is going on and not get drowned. Having examples 642 has been helpful. 643 644 Marc Marcoplos: Is this the presentation you will give to the elected officials? 645 646 Craig Benedict: No. This was something to try to dig in. 647 648 Marc Marcoplos: I think it would be great to give the elected officials. It would answer a lot of questions. 649 650 Judith Wegner: One of the issues is this is a major change compared to something else that helped people. This makes clear 651 that this dramatic change it is helpful in some simple ways. 652 653 Larry Wright: I think the floating districts, I can see how they apply now and the way it was so ambiguous. 654 655 Marc Marcoplos: I think most of the elected officials are looking at it the same way Samantha was saying the public would look 656 at it and seeing new lingo and all these uses. It is no more complicated than that. 657 658 Judith Wegner: That was a concern and that someone would be landed upon with an airport and I think for some of the Chapel 659 Hill officials some of it had to do with the rural buffer questions. Say, in effect the rural buffer is not subject to some of these to 660 keep it from being at risk of further development. The main thing is that we have to give staff this meeting, if we have the second 661 one in February, which I would be included to do to bring up your questions about the water issues. The sooner we can clear 662 this, the sooner we can give applause that we understand it. That was one of the things Brian tried to say at the last meeting 663 because this seemed to be more enormous that we had fully absorbed. My sense tonight is that everyone is pretty comfortable 664 with this. 665 666 May Becker: I am still questioning some of the things you mentioned in your email. The differences between the Conditional 667 Use and Conditional Zoning District in terms of you need a Special Use Permit for the Conditional Use and for the Conditional 668 Zoning Districts and it is more open. 669 11 15