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Excerpt from DRAFT Minutes <br /> DRAFT Attachment 4 26 <br /> 1 MINUTES <br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> 3 MARCH 7,2012 <br /> 4 REGULAR MEETING <br /> 5 <br /> 6 <br /> 7 MEMBERS PRESENT: Brian Crawford (Chair), Eno Township Representative; Larry Wright (Vice-Chair), At-Large, Cedar <br /> -8 Grove Township; Alan Campbell, Cedar Grove Township Representative; Buddy Hartley, Little River Township <br /> 9 Representative; Lisa Stuckey, Chapel Hill Township Representative; Rachel Hawkins, Hillsborough Township <br /> 10 Representative; Peter Hallenbeck,Cheeks Township Representative; Maxecine Mitchell,At-Large Bingham Township; <br /> 11 <br /> 12 <br /> 13 MEMBERS ABSENT: Johnny Randall,At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Judith Wegner, Bingham Township Representative; <br /> 14 Mark Marcoplos,At-Large, Bingham Township;Andrea Rohrbacher,At-Large Chapel Hill Township; <br /> 15 <br /> 16 <br /> 17 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director, Perdita Holtz, Planning Systems Coordinator; Michael Harvey, Current <br /> 18 Planning Supervisor; Shannon Berry, Special Projects Planner, Terry Hackett, Stormwater Resource Officer;Deb ra <br /> 19 Graham,Administrative Assistant II <br /> 20 <br /> 21 <br /> 22 Agenda Item 9: Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendments - To make a recommendation to the <br /> 23 BOCC on government-initiated amendments to the text of the UDO to revise the Table of Permitted <br /> 24 Uses for EDBA (Section 5.2)to make the district more retail-oriented and to revise Section 5.1.4 to <br /> 25 reduce the list of Conditional Use District exclusions within the land use classifications targeted for <br /> 26 non-residential development.This item was heard at the February 27,2012 quarterly public hearing. <br /> 27 Presenter: Shannon Berry, Special Projects Planner <br /> 28 Shannon Berry: Reviewed abstract. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Larry Wright: There was some concern by the Commissioners about the coding. <br /> 31 <br /> 32 Shannon Berry: The way this is set up, the asterisk is on our table of permitted uses as permitted by right. When you'try <br /> 33 to delete it, I have tried every way to get the line to go through the asterisk. I apologize for that. <br /> 34 <br /> 35 Buddy Hartley: Didn't Commissioner Jacobs mention something about the restaurant drive in? <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Shannon Berry: Larry mentioned the restaurant and the drive thrus and the questions about what happens when there <br /> 38 was talk of potentially banning them or removing them but nothing came up about that. <br /> 39 <br /> 40 Brian Crawford: We sent it to a committee. <br /> 41 <br /> 42 Shannon Berry: When it came here for the Ordinance Review Committee, we had a lengthy discussion about that and <br /> 43 decided that we probably don't want to open that can of worms. <br /> 44 <br /> 45 Buddy Hartley: There is a difference between drive in and drive thru. <br /> 46 <br /> 47 Shannon Berry: We tried to address that with the ORC by better defining them but that would open the whole thing again. <br /> 48 It would be interpreted that the drive in is also a drive thru. <br /> 49 <br /> 50 Brian Crawford: Buddy, is that a statement for us to possibly pick that up again or just let it die. <br /> 51 <br /> 52 Buddy Hartley: I think if there are any thoughts of banning, you can open up a lot of discrimination against people who <br /> 53 could be handicapped and can't go inside. <br /> 54 <br /> 1 <br />