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203 DRAFT 366 overall opinion of this section, which would be from the January 5 meeting, the topics we discussed, and what you would like to 367 state to the Commissioners on your opinion of review of the Conditional District, Conditional Zoning, General Use, Amended 368 Uses, and General Use Zoning. We'll start with Mark. I'll go after Alan because I do not want mine at the beginning or the end. 369 370 Mark Marroplos: So I have maximum influence. I am good with it. We've been around the track several times and it's as good 371 as it can be right now. The UDO process right now in regard to Conditional Zoning has improved the Ordinances. 372 373 Andrea Rohrbacher: I would say that I feel good about it. Being new to the Board what strikes me is that these changes allowed 374 for flexibility and based on the economy gives developers the chance to move forward with an idea but without a time stamp on 375 that idea which is associated with the Special Use Permit and the start date for it. I think it is a good tool to communicate what is 376 anticipated for property but without binding the developer to do specific things within a specific timeframe. 377 378 Pete Hallenbeck: I'm comfortable with things as they stand. I like the clarifications that have been made. I take some comfort 379 knowing that both the County Commissioners and the master plan have an influence on the process that can help take care of 380 any details that may have been missed. 381 382 Alan Campbell: I'm comfortable with these particular changes. I agree with what Andrea said and in addition, my general view of 383 the Conditional Zoning, Conditional Use additions is that to me its primarily giving the County Commissioners a lot more 384 influence in development. That's the way I see it and I like that because legally speaking they couldn't do a lot of these things 385 before and now we're getting a new tool to do that because the statutes allow them to make additions so I see it as a good thing. 386 387 Larry Wright: I was one that raised issues, especially with this section, and there were a number of things that were very helpful. 388 1 had very polarized views of this section to start out and one of the things that helped was to hear Craig's presentation with that 389 overview. I had some dialogue with Perdita but I just didn't understand it. I went through this section many times and Judith's 390 email, and this is one of the reasons I asked to have those two items included formally in the minutes, because that clarified my 391 mind tremendously, I went through this. I am not happy with this word for word, I do not understand and see some problems with 392 2.9.1. The Commissioners said this is not going to be a perfect document and I worked on and I've been on this Board a number 393 of times and I worked on a number of projects and going through all the various zoning ordinance and all these books that these 394 people have compiled together is an enormous task. They were conflicting it was just a real hard thing as a Board member to 395 puff together when some of these applications come before us. I am comfortable with this as it is. I am not 100% happy, again 396 the Commissioners said that they don't want a perfect document, that we are not going for a perfect document. There is going to 397 be another phase where each of these sections will be handled separately or in some way. That said, I feel that I can pass this 398 on and if the Commissioners are not happy then I feel that they can come back and state at what level of perfection they want 399 this. That's my opinion. 400 401 May Becker: I feel that I understand or it seems like the Board understands a lot more about what these mean since we had our 402 meeting especially, not this last one but the before that. I agree that its not going to be a perfect document. On the other hand, l 403 can't say that I am really comfortable to the point of really feeling that I understand the motivation for the Conditional Zoning 404 Districts. I understand the general motivation, I understand what was presented here but I think there are a lot of possible 405 implications and those came out in Judith's email and we discussed some of those but there are still some things that were 406 specifically brought up that to me its not clear to me how that is going to effect the ordinance or the potential development and 407 so I would have liked to have more discussion because I think that its true you're not going to have a perfect document but on 408 the other hand if there's some issues that you feel are really fairly big issues in terms of where things are headed, and you're not 409 sure that those issues will be addressed at a particular meeting or they're kind of thrown in a bucket so to speak, its so open - 410 ended that you know there's a big issue that is in your mind of concern and my opinion is that if you know that concern is going 411 to come up then start with a foundation that feels solid or you feel comfortable with. I am not clear that has been outlined to the 412 point where I am comfortable with that. That's my feeling, I feel that I understand a lot more out in the field a lot more 413 comfortable about certain things, a lot more comfortable than when this was first presented but what I think is really important to 414 know when these changes, which changes potentially would be made, when are we going to visit again to make sure we are 415 comfortable with it. I guess also another plan I would make is that if you have a ordinance or you have a development plan that 416 simply isn't working, a system that is so broken where you say you have to change something, you have to move forward, you 417 have to do something, that's one situation but I don't think thats the situation where we're in. I think Orange County is a nice 418 place to live, it generally functions well and now we're moving on to a Unified Development Ordinance which partly is a 419 compilation of other documents but is partly also something new and if we're at a point where we're happy with what we have 420 and we're moving forward, I think it makes sense to take the extra time to say well is this really what we want in terms of a 421 general main foundation. If we understand the main foundation then we go into the details after that and say ok it's not a perfect 422 document we've got this subset of this and subset of that and need of some details then I would be comfortable with that but at 423 this point I feel not comfortable with that. 424 425 Larry Wright: You may want to mention some of those reservations when we go through the overview, when we discuss the 426 overall UDO in part three. 7