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227 <br />To the Orange County Commissioners, <br />With regard to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to be reviewed at tonight's Board of <br />County Commissioners quarterly meeting, Preserve Rural Orange requests that you extend the <br />UDO decision - making process to ensure that citizens understand the proposed changes and <br />have opportunities to respond after the meeting and before changes are adopted. In particular, <br />we are concerned with new language on conditional zoning which appears to allow for <br />increased development without the protection of the special use permit application process used <br />previously for planned developments. <br />The UDO is a very large document, requiring considerable time for non - experts to navigate. We <br />ask you to seek feedback from the public following the quarterly meeting, in order to give <br />citizens a chance to respond to specific issues raised by BOCC and Planning Board members <br />and to understand fully the potential impacts of proposed changes. <br />Thank you, <br />-Laura Streitfeld <br />Laura Streitfeld <br />Chair, Board of Directors, Preserve Rural Orange <br />Email info -preserveruralorange.org <br />Phone (919) 801 -7294 <br />Preserve Rural Orange <br />P.O. Box 1314 <br />Carrboro, NC 27510 <br />From: gkneeb @aol.com <br />Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:04:19 -0500 <br />Subject: UDO proposal needs further consideration and input <br />To: bjacobs @co.orange.nc.us, bpelissier@co. orange. nc. us, gordon.alice @gmail.com, <br />mikenelsonnc@aol.com, phemminger @bellsouth.net, syuhasz @co.orange.nc.us, <br />vfoushee@co.orange.nc.us <br />Cc: pennyrich.ch @gmail.com, randee.haven- odonnell @da.org <br />November 21,2010 <br />Dear Members of the County Board Of Commissioners: <br />During the November 15, 2010 meeting of the Chapel Hill Town Council, I noted Penny <br />Rich's request for further information regarding the Unified Development Ordinance which is <br />being discussed during your November 22 meeting. <br />As the organizer for a group of citizens who are concerned about the proposed Obey <br />Creek project in Southern Chapel Hill, I am curious as to the impact this new process will have <br />on the rural buffer and extraterritorial districts in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br />A search on the Chapel Hill News and Carrboro Citizen websites show only one <br />reference to this major endeavor — an <br />announcement of a public hearing in August. The article announced <br />