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I DRAFT ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 40 <br /> 2 AND <br /> 3 ORANGE COUNTY'PLANNING BOARD <br /> 4 MAY 24, 1999 <br /> 6 MINUTES <br /> 6 <br /> 7 The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board <br /> 8 met in joint session on Monday, May 24, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. in the Judge F. Gordon Battle <br /> 9 Courtroom, Orange County Courthouse, 106 E. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, North Carolina, <br /> 10 for the purpose of holding a joint public hearing. <br /> I1 <br /> 12 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Alice M. Gordon, and <br /> 13 Commissioners Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Stephen H. Halkiotis, and Barry Jacobs. <br /> 14 <br /> is ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Karen Barrows <br /> 16 and members Leo Allison, Nell Andrews. Barry Katz, Howard McAdams, Jr., Robert Strayhom <br /> 17 and Runyon Woods <br /> 18 <br /> 19 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: S.A.M. Brooks, James <br /> !0 Selkirk, , and Elizabeth Walters <br /> !2 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill. <br /> !3 <br /> !4 STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director Craig Benedict, <br /> .6 Planners Robert Davis and Karen Lincoln and Deputy Clerk to the Board Kathy Baker. Other <br /> .6 staff members present will be identified in the minutes as appropriate. <br /> !7 <br /> !8 A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br /> !9 . Chair Gordon convened the meeting. She indicated that both of the items on the <br /> ;0 agenda would be chaired by Planning Board Chair Karen Barrows. <br /> 1 <br /> B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> Chair Gordon dispensed with the reading of the Public Charge. <br /> 4 <br /> .6 Ms. Barrows indicated that a letter of support for both the proposed Subdivision <br /> ,6 Regulation Text Amendments and the Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments was received from <br /> 7 Dan VanderMeer, Chair of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority Board of Directors. Mr. <br /> 8 VanderMeer stated that "Orange Water and Sewer Authority recognizes that the County's <br /> 9 Flexible Development provisions are an important component of the Creative Open Space <br /> 0 Design—or Clustering —approach that we have recommended as a development option in the <br /> 11 Cane Creek Watershed. Orange Water and Sewer Authority believes that the proposed <br /> 2 amendments would appropriately strengthen some of the current open space requirements for <br /> 3 cluster developments in ways that will more adequately protect the Cane Creek water supply. <br /> 4 Although our Board of Directors has not had sufficient opportunity to review the proposed <br /> 5 amendments in detail, we generally support their adoption and look forward to providing <br />