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APPROVED 4/17/2001 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AND <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />August 28, 2000 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board met on Monday, <br />August 28, 2000 at 7:3Q p. m. in the Judge Gordon F. Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Vice-Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners <br />Margaret W. Brown, Alice M. Gordon, and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONER ABSENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr. <br />PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Lea Allison, Chair and members Runyon Woods, Bob <br />Strayhorn, Crauford Goodwin, Karen Barrows, Howard McAdams, Barry Katz, and Rachel Preston <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director Craig Benedict <br />and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (all other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <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 5 YEARS. <br />A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE VICE-CHAIR <br />He announced that Chair Carey was out of town and that he, Commissioner Halkiotis, would <br />be chairing this meeting along with Leo Allison, Chair of the Orange County Planning Board. The <br />Board of Commissioners agreed to address item C5 first -Shaping Orange County's Future <br />Report. <br />B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Commissioner Halkiotis read the public charge. <br />NOTE: Planning Board Chair Leo Allison chaired items C1 and 4 <br />Commissioners' Vice-Chair Stephen Halkiotis chaired items 2, 3, and 5 <br />C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br />1. Oranae County Zonina Ordinance Text Amendments <br />a. Article 22 Definitions far Lot, Usable <br />b. Article 22 Definitions of Stream Buffer <br />c. Section 6.23.7 Stream Buffers <br />d. Detailed Table of Contents <br />e. Section 6.24 Stream Buffers Outside of Watershed Protection Overlay <br />Districts <br />f. Section 6.25 Usable lot areas when using Ground Absorption Septic Systems <br />Planner Robert Davis summarized this item. He said that these text amendments were <br />coming forward to clean up a section of the ordinance for better interpretation and to consistently <br />interpret what the stream buffer section means. He said that right now there was not a stream <br />buffer requirement unless the land was in a watershed. He explained a map showing the stream <br />buffers and the edge of the flood plain. On the calculation of the width, the ordinance indicates that <br />only a perpendicular line across the stream should be drawn, but it does not say how many times <br />this should be done along the stream. He said that the minimum feet that the staff is <br />recommending is 100 feet along the horizontal area. Also, the definition of a Usable Lot has been <br />clarified as, "the portion of a zoning lot unencumbered by stream buffers, conservation easements, <br />drainage easements, public and private right-of-ways, access easements, and utility easements." <br />The definition also includes areas affected by steep slopes, which are slopes greater than 15%, <br />