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Attachment 7 <br />213 <br />APPROVED 1/20/2011 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />Dinner Meeting <br />November 22, 2010 <br />5:30 p.m. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board <br />met for a dinner meeting on Monday, November 22, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. at the Link Government <br />Services Center in Hillsborough, NC <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Valerie P. Foushee, and Commissioners <br />Alice M. Gordon, Barry Jacobs, Pam Hemminger, and Steve Yuhasz <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Mike Nelson, Bernadette Pelissier <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton and Deputy Clerk to the <br />Board David Hunt (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br />PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Brian L. Crawford, May Becker, Pete <br />Hallenbeck, Rachel Phelps Hawkins, Tommy McNeill, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, Judith <br />Wegner, and Larry Wright <br />PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Samantha Cabe <br />New Planning Board members (yet to be sworn in) were present: Andrea Rohrbacher <br />and Alan Campbell <br />Commissioner Foushee called the meeting to order at 5:45 PM. Introductions were <br />made. <br />Planning Director Craig Benedict said that each year the Planning Board looks at the <br />previous year and the upcoming year. He said that the County is into the formal process of the <br />Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), and this is a very important framework for the future. <br />Tentative 2011 -12 Planning / Planning Board Work Plan Discussion <br />1) Completion of Initial Unified Development Ordinance <br />• Public hearing on November 22, 2010 <br />• Forward to the Planning Board for a recommendation (December and January) <br />• UDO is to be adopted by the BOCC February 15, 2011? <br />• UDO creates framework <br />o Regulations related to economic development, permitted uses, and process <br />standards to be refined as noted in item 3 below <br />Larry Wright said that he was on the Planning Board when it worked on the <br />Comprehensive Plan. He has concerns about conditional zoning and could not resolve the <br />question about spot zoning. He is also on the Board of Adjustment, and when there is a <br />submission before it, the submission must conform and be justified in terms of the <br />Comprehensive Plan. He asked why the UDO is not being looked at to see if it conforms with <br />the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. He wants to know what the rush is because the UDO is a very <br />