ORD-2001-015 Proposed Amendments to Ordinance Prohibiting the Keeping of Animals Dangerous to Persons and Property within OC

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APPROVED 11f712001 --? en) ---3 ) -z.) / -5, -5-- —z? 9 MINUTES <2 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD May 29, 2001 The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board met on Tuesday, May 29, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Gordon Baffle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon, and Barry Jacobs PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Nicole Gooding-Ray and members Crauford Goodwin, Howard McAdams, Rachel Preston, Hunter Schofield, Bob Strayhorn, Theodore W. Triebel and Runyon Woods COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT• , Geoffrey Gledhill COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director Craig Benedict and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (all other staff members will be identified appropriately below) NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR Chair Halkiotis outline; the agenda for the meeting. B. PUBLIC CHARGE Chair Halkiotis read the public charge. C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS (County Commissioners Only) r1eann uirector Kosemary Summers made the presentation. In the summer of 2000, the Committee on Animal and Human Safety appeared before the Board with a request for the County Commissioners to consider an ordinance that would ban the display of exotic animals. This request was referred to the Board of Health. The Board of Health's Animal Control Environmental Health Committee took up that issue on August 16, 2000 and met several times to consider the ordinance. The committee noted that the 1993 ordinance to prohibit the keeping of wild and dangerous animals had not been amended. The committee proposed amendments to the ordinance that do not change the substance of the ordinance. The physical enclosure restrictions have been eliminated to make it much clearer that the intent of the ordinance is to prohibit the keeping of wild and dangerous animals. There are presently no known wild or dangerous animals being kept in the County. This ordinance only applies to the unincorporated areas of the County. Commissioner Brown asked a clarifying question about the difference between this item and the next item. The first ordinance is prohibiting the keeping of wild animals dangerous to persons and property and the second ordinance is prohibiting the display of wild and exotic animals. Commissioner Jacobs asked about the new abstract and Rosemary Summers said that she and the County Attorney reviewed the language of the document and did not change anything in the intent, but only cleaned up some of the language.