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1 15 <br /> 1 MINUTES <br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> 3 AND <br /> 4 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> 5 August 28,2000 <br /> 6 <br /> 7 The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board met on Monday, <br /> 8 August 28, 2000 at 7:30 p.m. in the Judge Gordon F. Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br /> 9 <br /> 10 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Vice-Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners <br /> 11 Margaret W. Brown,Alice M. Gordon, and Barry Jacobs <br /> 12 COUNTY COMMISSIONER ABSENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr. <br /> 13 PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Leo Allison, Chair and members Runyon Woods, Bob <br /> 14 Strayhorn, Crauford Goodwin, Karen Barrows, Howard McAdams, Barry Katz, and Rachel Preston <br /> 15 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br /> 16 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link,Jr., Planning Director Craig Benedict <br /> 17 and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe(all other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> 18 <br /> 19 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br /> 20 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE <br /> 21 KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. <br /> 22 <br /> 23 A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE VICE-CHAIR <br /> 24 He announced that Chair Carey was out of town and that he, Commissioner Halkiotis, would <br /> 25 be chairing this meeting along with Leo Allison, Chair of the Orange County Planning Board. The <br /> 26 Board of Commissioners agreed to address item C5 first-Shaping Orange County's Future <br /> 27 Report. <br /> 28 <br /> 29 B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> 30 Commissioner Halkiotis read the public charge. <br /> 31 <br /> 32 NOTE: Planning Board Chair Leo Allison chaired items C1 and 4 <br /> 33 Commissioners'Vice-Chair Stephen Halkiotis chaired items 2, 3, and 5 <br /> 34 <br /> 35 C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br /> 36 1. Orange County Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments <br /> 37 a. Article 22 Definitions for Lot, Usable <br /> 38 b. Article 22 Definitions of Stream Buffer <br /> 39 c. Section 6.23.7 Stream Buffers <br /> 40 d. Detailed Table of Contents <br /> 41 e. Section 6.24 Stream Buffers Outside of Watershed Protection Overlay <br /> 42 Districts <br /> 43 f. Section 6.25 Usable lot areas when using Ground Absorption Septic Systems <br /> 44 <br /> 45 Planner Robert Davis summarized this item. He said that these text amendments were <br /> 46 coming forward to clean up a section of the ordinance for better interpretation and to consistently <br /> 47 interpret what the stream buffer section means. He said that right now there was not a stream <br /> 48 buffer requirement unless the land was in a watershed. He explained a map showing the stream <br /> 49 buffers and the edge of the flood plain. On the calculation of the width, the ordinance indicates that <br /> 50 only a perpendicular line across the stream should be drawn, but it does not say how many times <br /> 51 this should be done along the stream. He said that the minimum feet that the staff is <br /> 52 recommending is 100 feet along the horizontal area. Also, the definition of a Usable Lot has been <br /> 53 clarified as, "the portion of a zoning lot unencumbered by stream buffers, conservation easements, <br /> 54 drainage easements, public and private right-of-ways, access easements, and utility easements." <br /> 55 The definition also includes areas affected by steep slopes, which are slopes greater than 15%, <br /> 56 wildlife corridors, ponds, lakes, and streams. This item will be going back to the Planning Board <br />