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alternatives. Commissioner Gordon and Commissioner Nelson will flesh out the alternative transportation project. The Board agreed. Geof Gledhill pointed out that with the money items, there is flexibility and no time limits on these. Laura Blackmon reminded the Board that there is a Legislative Delegation Breakfast an February Stn Chair Carey made reference to the sales tax exemption for OWASA and asked about incorporating this. Commissioner Gordon said that the wording would be important. Geof Gledhill suggested just saying OWASA and then there is no risk of being misunderstood. Commissioner Jacobs said that every year he has been on the Board, there was a public hearing on their legislative agenda, but not this year. Chair Carey said that the legislative delegation has specifically asked that the County have public hearings in the past. Commissioner Nelson said that this was discussed, but other jurisdictions in the area do not have public hearings. Commissioner Gordon said that she remembers discussing this in December and the County Commissioners told the staff to fonrvard the items to the Chair and the Vice Chair at agenda review and get the interpretation of whether there should be a public hearing. Chair Carey said that it is a good idea to have public hearings on legislative agenda items and this should be done in the future. Commissioner Gordon suggested having a public hearing on this on February Otn A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Nelson to approve potential items (3} and amended sales tax item to include OWASA for inclusion in Orange County's legislative agenda package for the 2007 North Carolina General Assembly Session for presentation to Orange County's legislative delegation and the leadership of the North Carolina General Assembly and to hold a public hearing on February 6tn VOTE: UNANIMOUS c. Preliminary Plan Modification for Lots 22-26 of Ashwick Subdivision The Board received the Administration and Planning Board recommendations and considered making a decision concerning the modified preliminary plan for Lots 22 - 26 of the Ashwick Subdivision. Current Planning Supervisor Robert Davis said that this is a request to modify the preliminary plan for five lots in this subdivision. This S8-lot subdivision was approved in May 2001, and the lots were platted in two phases. At some point later on, building permits were issued far two of the lots, and the other three lots belong to the builder. There was a request close to a year ago for an accessory structure to be built on the rear of one of the lots, and one of the platting requirements for the subdivision when it was initially approved is that there has to be a 100-foot building envelope buffer along the perimeter of the subdivision. In the 100-foot building envelope, approximately 40 feet of that is in common-owned open space, and the remaining portion is in the individual lots 22-26. This 100-foot buffer prohibits building of any structures. All of the owners in the subdivision have signed that they are knowledgeable of this request and have agreed to allow this to come to the Board far consideration to modify the 100- foot buffer down to 75 feet. The Planning Board voted 9-1 and asked the staff to look into doing a potential text amendment to avoid these situations, which are all over the County under the current rules. Commissioner Jacobs said that he does not feel comfortable doing this after looking at the Planning Board discussion and comments from the builder. He thinks that people using the front yard setback and going to the Board of Adjustment is a much mare reasonable approach. He would prefer this route rather than setting a precedent and encouraging other people to do the same.