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Agenda Item Number 1 -:Orange County Zoning Atlas Amendment, PD-1-Q3 -State Employees <br />Credit Union.. This is a request for a rezoning of an Economic Development Limited Office <br />First, procedures for a rezoning', this involves procedures for a rezoning and,a special use permit. <br />The rezoning will be legislative.. The Special Use Permit. process is quasi judicial and there will be, <br />certain procedures>which will be followed tonight. First and foremost, there'll' be a swearing in by <br />Donna Baker. And we'll do that en masse, and so she'll ask for everyone who intends to testify at` <br />this quasi-judicial hearing to stand and be sworn in. Secondly, there'll be a presentation by staff:. <br />Thirdly, there'll be statements in support of the proposal by the applicants. Fourthly, there'11 be an <br />opportunity for opponents to the proposal to speak, and, then, if necessary, there'll be rebuttals <br />from both sides. Wiih that, let me go ahead and turn this over to Donna. Baker for the swearing. in. <br />3. Clerk to the Board Donna Baker asked for anyone who will be providing testimony <br />on this item -Special Use Permit- to please come forward in order to give them an <br />oath:. She asked" if there was anyone that was going to testify'that would object o <br />being sworn in. If so, she will .:give them a separate oath. (Na one did). <br />The Clerk asked the 5 individuals who were being sworn in to place left hand <br />on;the Bible; and she asked them,. "Do you solemnly swear°to tell the truth, the <br />whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" <br />Robert Davis, Craig Benedict, .Jonathan Parsons., Jay Smith and Ryna <br />Stephenson took the oath. <br />The Clerk then asked them to leave any materials that they were using in support or <br />opposition to this amendment with-the Clerk and" she will retain them in the Clerk's office <br />Hunter Schofield: 0K. We're now ready to proceed with the presentation by staff. Planning <br />Director, Craig Benedict. <br />Craig Benedict: Good evening. This ifem is both: a rezoning and a special use permit. As the Vice= <br />Chair said, it is a process that involves°two separate: issues, one being legislative, one being quasi=: <br />judicial.. We are nestling those two together tonight :because, atone point, there'll be a decision on <br />the rezoning but not at tonight's meeting. But that would- be a separate decision at some time in he <br />future, whetherit is appropriate to change from its existing zoning district to this new zoning district.. <br />After that decision is made at a subsequent meeting: to this, if that is found to be acceptable from a <br />legislative standpoint, then.. you will move into the second process, which is a Class A Special Use. <br />Permit.. Both of these issues will.. have eventual recommendations from the Planning Board, again, <br />at a meeting. subsequentto this.. And then a Special Use Permit is an opportunity to set a list of <br />conditions on .how the site plan would eventually unfold:.. This site development plan., which will be <br />part of he Special Use Permit, is very .close to a formal site plan. <br />To go through:the actual information to be submitted by staff, Robert.Davis,. the current Planning <br />Supervisor, will go through that -item to explain the different aspects of the proposal. And` then, we'11 <br />turn it aver to the different-:parts of the process. So I'll introduce .Robert;,. Davis and he'll continue <br />with this application. <br />Technical Evaluation:: <br />Robert :Davis; As he had said, this is a planned development request #o rezone property to <br />Planned Development Economic Development Linear Office, which i5 the district that was <br />.designated for this portionof the EDD (in the Hillsborough,area EDD),_:back when the BOCC redid <br />the Hillsborough EDD about two years ago, <br />