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205 DRAFT 488 Zoning just based on the meeting that we had two meeting ago and then consider all that other stuff that's in here that we haven't 489 really looked at, I can't say I'm comfortable with that. Therefore I think it's irresponsible to just say well lets move on lets just deal 490 with it later. We also brought up a couple of points about vegetative buffers and landscape buffers, we didn't get a chance to 491 really go into those. That's where I stand. 492 493 Larry Wright: My dissenting opinion is this, had the motion been worded differently I probably would have approved it. I do feel 494 that we were not given adequate time,1 do feel staff has made a good presentation and this is what we know. We do know the 495 documents that were presented to us. What we do not know and what was in this vote is we have not had the time to go through 496 the 842 pages and look at the references. Had the motion been made that was more conditional on what was presented to us, 497 and our knowledge of what was given to us, I would have said yes, I endorse it and we move forward and the rest goes on phase 498 two. That's it. 499 500 Rachel Hawkins: 1 would like to say I resent the remark that we were irresponsible in passing the motion. 501 502 May Becker: I didn't mean that it was irresponsible of us, I meant that I would feel its irresponsible of myself to pass something 503 that I don't feel comfortable with, that I don't feel I have understood fully to the point where I'm comfortable with it. I feel 504 personally that I should have a certain level of understanding of what is in the document and I have brought up concerns in the 505 past about particular areas that I feel that we didn't really discuss in detail. I think that what I was trying to point out is that a few 506 meetings ago I really got a much better understanding of these zoning districts and therefore I feel that it's my own view of 507 responsibility is to understand something before I feel comfortable in saying I'm comfortable with it. 508 509 510 AGENDA ITEM 9: COMMITTEE/ADVIsORy BOARD REPORTS 511 c) Orange Unified Transportation 512 513 Tommy McNeill: Karen Lincoln does a superb job with the OUTBoard. I want to touch on a couple of quick things, we invited the 514 Department of Transportation to come and speak to the group and they did a great job on presenting the area roads which will be 515 paved. She also emailed describing and listing the area in Orange County that will be paved which I can forward to Tina to send 516 out to the group. Its very interesting to see what they are doing. The second thing of course that you have already seen tonight 517 is the meeting that will take place on February 7th, I plan to attend, at the library here to discuss more about the plan, it is an input 518 meeting for the public and I think it behooves us all to take an interest in this and I will attend and gather more information. That 519 is just two areas the OUTBoard has been discussing. That is what I can share with you tonight. 520 521 AGENDA ITEM 7: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) CONTINUED: 522 523 Larry Wright: Ok, let's move on to stream buffers. 524 525 Perdita Holtz: The pages of the stream buffer sections that have modifications from the comments that were made at the 526 January 19th meeting are on page 41 through 44 of your packet. The blue text is the indicated changes from the November 2010 527 draft which is the draft you have now in your notebooks. As part of the discussion last time, we made several modifications, A.1 528 and A.2 on page 41 makes it clear that the approval of activities in the stream buffers is required prior to the activity taking place. 529 Throughout this section we replaced the term 'permitted' with the term 'allowable'. On page 42, we removed number 13 from the 530 uses allowable and added it to a similar provision that already existed in D which is uses allowable with mitigation so if you take a 531 look at number 9, you'll see that now new storm water ponds with or without a riparian buffer established adjacent to the pond is 532 a use allowable with mitigation. Those were what we understood the Planning Board requested as a result of the January 19th 533 meeting. 534 535 Craig Benedict: Larry, something that you brought up at the previous meeting, what's the purpose and intent of almost every 536 section of our code, how to you balance those interests, we noticed that what's allowed without mitigation is primarily 537 maintenance of these stream buffers and some passive enjoyment of it whether it is archeological dig or using a trail and we 538 thought that instead of adding an elaborate purpose and intent in section, was there a section of UDO that seems to cover that 539 balance of interest. Perdita did find a section of it that which is kind of in the preamble of the whole book about the balancing of 540 the public interest to enjoy the environment. 541 542 Perdita Holtz: Section 1.1.4, if you look on page 1 -2 of your book, part b of that. The purpose of the regulations set out in this 543 Ordinance shall be to accomplish compatible development of the land within Orange County in a manner which will best promote 544 the health, safety, and general welfare, as well as to, you will notice there are twelve things listed. 545 546 Craig Benedict: That was something like the example we showed on the board, everything in this code is a balance of interest. 547 Any one year or any one decade the pendulum may swing one way or the other so this is a balance for 2010 and 2011, we think 548 it's a good preamble. 9