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26 DRAFT 54 55 Michael Harvey: This is to initiate and have a dialogue with adjoining property owners to address or mitigate those concerns if 56 feasible. 57 58 Tony Blake: I am trying to understand the purpose of this if it is not binding in any way. I am thinking of the people that are 59 currently against this. I don't see any way we will change any minds. 60 61 Michael Harvey: There is a broader issue here that doesn't necessarily involve the White Cross Volunteer Fire Department. 62 There is a feeling among the Board that any time there is government project, there needs to be notification to the public. 63 64 Pete Hallenbeck: Imagine you had a meeting for everyone at the volunteer fire department and have slips with questions, i.e. 65 are they adjacent property owners, give them check boxes and a place for comments. You could have a presentation and let 66 people speak and in writing. Then you could say this is what we did at the meeting with committee which you could document 67 with an executive summary. 68 69 Tony Blake: Where does this document go? 70 71 Michael Harvey: To the county planning staff as part of your site plan submittal. 72 73 Craig Benedict: During the subdivision process, we take those comments into consideration and the neighborhood 74 information notes become part of our packages. 75 76 Stephanie O'Rourke: How do you handle it if they all object? 77 78 Craig Benedict: Michael, you go through the uses permitted by right by uses .... 79 80 Michael Harvey: That is the first item on the regular agenda I don't want to jump into that presentation. Government uses are 81 permitted by right meaning that they are subject to staff review and approval with a site plan submitted according to this code. 82 There are typically no public hearings required, the BOCC will not be approving it or the planning board. In this specific 83 instance, the White Cross Volunteer Department Substation will still be approved and acted upon by the county planning staff. 84 85 Paul Guthrie: This language which has been developed because of the White Cross application and I would assume the 86 property owners within 500 feet of the property on Neville Road is a handful of them easily for and that is simple. If this goes 87 into the general development, what will you do when you have this issue come up and three condo units with 200 separate 88 owners and you have to go through this process? I am concerned that this has implications down the road. Have we thought 89 through in the development of this language the implications that other situations and concerns? 90 91 Michael Harvey: This language is consistent with existing language on how we handle neighborhood information meetings for 92 several projects. If you have a government use that is adjacent property where there are 200 lots, then you will have to notify 93 all 200 of them. If it was a major subdivision, the staff would still have to notify those property owners. You will typically find 94 that both state and federal governments are exempt from zoning regulations. 95 96 Tony Blake: I think this is reactive in a political year by the County Commissioners and it has bad implications down the road. 97 This is time consuming and resource consuming and what the tax payers give us is to be used for fighting fire. If the county 98 wants it that it is the county's role to hold it and I would also suggest strongly that this also be able to be satisfied in the form of 99 writing rather than a public meeting because we have a very small fire station. I think it puts an unnecessary burden on a 100 volunteer organization. 101 102 Pete Hallenbeck: I suggest you take those suggestions and put them in writing so when the BOCC look at passing this UDO 103 amendment, you could speak as a citizen. There is the opportunity here; no matter what you do there will be people against it. 104 But it would be a good opportunity to give information. 105 106 Tony Blake: The end result is that it would be neighbor versus neighbor. PJ