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APPROVED 8117199 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AND <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />MAY 24, 1999 <br />MINUTES <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board <br />met in joint session on Monday, May 24, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. in the Judge F. Gordon Battle <br />Courtroom, Orange County Courthouse, 106 E. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, North Carolina, for <br />the purpose of holding a joint public hearing. <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Alice M. Gordon, and <br />Commissioners Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Stephen H. Halkiotis, and Barry Jacobs <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Karen Barrows <br />and members Leo Allison, Nell Andrews, Barry Katz, Howard McAdams, Jr., Robert Strayhorn <br />and Runyon Woods <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: S.A.M. Brooks, James <br />Selkirk, and Elizabeth Walters <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill. <br />STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director Craig Benedict, <br />Planners Robert Davis and Karen Lincoln and Deputy Clerk to the Board Kathy Baker. Other <br />staff members present will be identified in the minutes as appropriate. <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE <br />KEPT FOR FIVE YEARS. <br />A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br />Chair Gordon convened the meeting. She indicated that both of the items on the <br />agenda would be chaired by Planning Board Chair Karen Barrows. <br />B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Chair Gordon dispensed with the reading of the Public Charge. <br />Barrows indicated that a letter of support for both the proposed Subdivision Regulation <br />Text Amendments and the Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments was received from Dan <br />VanderMeer, Chair of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority Board of Directors. Mr. <br />VanderMeer stated that "Orange Water and Sewer Authority recognizes that the County's <br />Flexible Development provisions are an important component of the Creative Open Space <br />Design - or Clustering - approach that we have recommended as a development option in the <br />Cane Creek Watershed. Orange Water and Sewer Authority believes that the proposed