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Agenda Item Number 1 -Orange County Zoning Atlas Amendment, PD-1-03 -State Employees Credit Union. This is a request for a rezoning of an Economic Development Limited Office First, procedures for a rezoning, this involves procedures for a rezoning and a special use permit. The rezoning will be legislative. The Special Use Permit process is quasi-judicial and there will be, certain procedures which will be followed tonight. First and foremost, there'll be a swearing in by Donna Baker. And we'll do that en masse, and so she'll ask for everyone who intends to testify at this quasi-judicial hearing to stand and be sworn in. Secondly, there'll be a presentation by staff. Thirdly, there'll be statements in support of the proposal by the applicants. Fourthly, there'll be an opportunity for opponents to the proposal to speak, and, then, if necessary, there'll be rebuttals from both sides. With that, let me go ahead and turn this over to Donna Baker for the swearing in. 3. Clerk to the Board Donna Baker asked for anyone who will be providing testimony on this item -Special Use Permit- to please come forward in order to give them an oath. She asked if there was anyone that was going to testify that would object to being sworn in. If so, she will give them a separate oath. {No one did}. - The Clerk asked the 5 individuals who were being sworn in to place left hand on the Bible: and she asked them, "Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" - Robert Davis, Craig Benedict, Jonathan Parsons, Jay Smith and Rynal Stephenson took the oath. The Clerk then asked them to leave any materials that they were using in support or opposition to this amendment with the Clerk and she will retain them in the Clerk's office Hunter Schofield: OK. We're now ready to proceed with the presentation by staff. Planning Director, Craig Benedict. Craig Benedict: Good evening. This item is both a rezoning and a special use permit. As the Vice- Chair said, it is a process that involves two separate issues, one being legislative, one being quasi- judicial. We are nestling those two together tonight because, atone point, there'll be a decision an the rezoning but not at tonight's meeting. But that would be a separate decision at some time in the future, whether it is appropriate to change from its existing zoning district to this new zoning district. After that decision is made at a subsequent meeting to this, if that is found to be acceptable from a legislative standpoint, then you will move into the second process, which is a Class A Special Use Permit. Both of these issues will have eventual recommendations from the Planning Board, again, at a meeting subsequent to this. And then a Special Use Permit is an opportunity to set a list of conditions on how the site plan would eventually unfold. This site development plan, which will be part of the Special Use Permit, is very close to a formal site plan. To go through the actual information to be submitted by staff, Robert Davis, the current Planning Supervisor, will go through that item to explain the different aspects of the proposal. And then, we'll turn it over to the different parts of the process. So I'll introduce Robert Davis and he'll continue with this application. Technical Evaluation: Robert Davis: As he had said, this is a planned development request to rezone property to Planned Development Economic Development Linear Office, which is the district that was designated for this portion of the EDD (in the Hillsborough area EDD}, back when the BOCC redid the Hillsborough EDD about two years ago.