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21 DRAFT <br />1 certain amount of parking, meeting the square footage of the building. The idea is, <br />2 presumably, that you can accommodate business inside. That's why we have parking <br />3 standards. So I don't see a need to increase drive-through lanes. In fact, I think it's sending <br />4 a message that we're not very serious about the standards that we set if we're going to <br />5 actually expand the use. !'d just as soon see banks without the drive-through. I've forced <br />6 myself to get out of my car at the bank I use so that I don't contribute to the problem. And I <br />7 certainly wouldn't want to, as an elected official, vote to make the problem worse. <br />8 <br />9 Hunter Schofield asked for any other comments from members of the Commission. <br />10 Hearing none, he asked for any comments from members of the Planning Board. <br />11 <br />12 Sam Lasris Were the residents notified of this action? <br />13 <br />14 Robert Davis Yes sir, it's in the packet. And there is a certification letter in there, too. <br />15 <br />16 Sam Lasris asked if this was the only chance residents have to speak. <br />17 <br />18 Robert Davis No, they get to go to the Planning Board. There is only one notification - <br />19 there was a public ad and also a sign posted on the property. They can still come to the <br />20 Planning Board, provided all comments are in writing after this meeting. <br />21 <br />22 Hunter Schofield I think we're ready to proceed. Commissioner Gordon. <br />23 <br />24 Commissioner Gordon I'm ready for a motion to accept the Planning Staff s <br />25 recommendation to-refer proposed Zoning Atlas Amendment and proposed Class A <br />26 Special Use Permit to the Planning Board for a recommendation to be returned to the <br />27 Commissioners no sooner than January 26th, 2004. <br />28 . <br />29 A motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner Barry Jacobs <br />30 to accept the Planning Staff's recommendation to refer the proposed Zoning Atlas <br />_ 31 Amendment and proposed Class A Special Use Permit to the Planning Board for a <br />~- X32 recomm~ndation~to be returned to the B~OCC no sooner than January2b, 2003: <br />33 -_. -- _ <br />34 VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />35 <br />36 Vice-Chair Hunter Schofield then explained next item. <br />37 <br />38 2. Concurrent Text Amendments to the Orange County Zoning Ordinance and <br />39 Orange County Subdivision Regulations <br />40 <br />41 a. Text amendments to require a subdivision located in more than one zoning <br />42 district, including a subdivision located in more than one overlay district or a <br />43 subdivision located in anon-overlay district and an overlay district, to go through <br />44 the planned development rezoning process. <br />45 <br />46 Craig Benedict said that this item (see blue handout) and has more specific language to <br />47 clarify requirements and identify thresholds. Every orange area on the map is an <br />48 intersection of different watersheds and zoning districts. He stated that University Lake <br />49 was a 5-acre density and Haw River Protected was 1 acre and this amendment was <br />~~ <br />