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The Planning Board has scheduled an additional l meeting on September 3rdto complete the review with a recommendation on September The County Commissioners will receive a recommendation on October 7th With those ch8D0es, it has an impact on when Clarion Associates might have final neviaioOs, and this was shifted back one month. The Planning Board also asked that staff include in the August 25th public hearing agenda materials the following items: 1) an identification of the key differences between the 1981 Land Use Plan and the new draft plan, and identify any conflicting points that there may be along the County's advisory boards; 2) handling of the deadline of any final comments coming from the advisory boards to the Planning Board. An email was sent to the advisory boards with a suggested deadline of July 9 ,, which would give the Planning Board an opportunity to review those comments going into the August public hearin0, but this is open for discussion. Commissioner Gordon made reference to the July gth deadline for comments and said that the Commission for the Environment meeting was last night and she was told that it would not meet in July. She asked if the Commission for the Environment could send in its comments later. She asked that the deadline be extended. Commissioner Gordon asked wh the plan presented on August 25th would be the same draft plan that was presented on May I 9th She said that she appreciates the urgency of this, but she is puzzled that we are asking the advisory boards to hurry up and then not to incorporate the comments. She said that there should be noted changes in the draft comprehensive plan at the August 25th meeting. Chair Jacobs said that the Board should respect that the Planning Board needs information back by August 6th. He said that the advisory boards have had a year to get their proposals together, and the comments can come before or after the public hearing. He does not want the advisory board to go back and redo the comment section, unless there are changes. Commissioner Carey said that this is reasonable. Commissioner Gordon said that there is at least one board that got the presentation but did not get the agenda materials ahead of time; thenahore. no comments were made that same night. She said that August 6th is a more reasonable date than July 9th. Chair Jacobs said that the Planning Board needs time to read the comments before its August 6th meeting. Commissioner Gordon said that she would like to have comments in by the public hearing. She asked to hear from the Planning Board Chair. Tom Altieri said that if the comment period is extended noxv, then the Planning Board will need more time to come back with a recommendation. Regarding the August 25th document being the aome, he said that it was staff's understanding that the purpose of holding an additional public hearing would be to allow the public and the advisory boards additional opportunity to review the large document. If another draft were created, the Planning Board would be in the same predicament of people not having enough time to review it. Planning Board Chair Jay Bryan said that some of the same questions were raised by the Planning Board. He said that the board felt that this timeline was the best it could do under the circumstances and time directed by the Board of County Commissioners. He said that the Planning Board put a 2 1/2 year schedule in front of the Board of County Commissioners and then the Board narrowed it down to two years, ao, in some xxaya, it is really the Board of County Commissioners' schedule. Chair Jacobs asked if the Planning Board would prefer to have time to consider additional comments by its July meeting. Jay Bryan said that, generally, the Planning Board would prefer to have time to consider the additional comments. The sooner the Planning Board has a structure for grappling with the c000enta, the better. He thinks that all advisory boards should be welcome to make comments, by the July meeting or by the public hearing. Chair Jacobs suggested that advisory boards would have to have comments in by m m August 13 forth�0 �Vb� r��dybyth� p�b|i� haaringonth� 25 .