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He said some of the intended but not articulated consequences of the plan are that it recognizes the rural buffer to the south of Hillsborough. It also de-facto creates rural buffers to the west of Hillsborough in the upper Eno and to the east, separating Durham from Hillsborough. He said this includes an Orange Grove access management plan that would have been very informative for people in the Eno River EDD. He said this is the kind of plan that the County eventually needs to have with Mebane. VOTE: UNANIMOUS D. ADJOURNMENT OF PUBLIC HEARING A motion was made by Commissioner Pelissier, seconded by Commissioner Rich to adjourn the public hearing at 9:44. VOTE: UNANIMOUS E. BOCC WORK SESSION: 1. Agricultural Support Enterprises (Continued) Perdita Holtz resumed her presentation with discussion points, looking at pages 1-4 of the abstract. She asked for direction on whether changes should be written into the existing public hearing process for Agriculture Support Enterprises. Chair Jacobs asked what the other 80 pages of the abstract contain. Perdita Holtz said these additional pages contain the UDO text amendments that are expected to move forward next month. She said the approval process must happen first. Commissioner Rich said the presentation left off on page 9. She said she agrees with the staff opinion that option 3 is not preferred due to extra time, and cost. She is trying to understand the difference between the other options and what makes the most sense. Perdita Holtz said the difference between options 1 and 2 is the timing of the Planning Board recommendation, and the difference in the number of Public Hearing dates available for development projects throughout the year. She said there is currently a quarterly process for Public Hearings. She said previous agriculture support work advocated that re-zonings and special use permits for Agriculture Support uses should be allowed on any BOCC regular meeting agenda under the public hearings section. She said this is being brought forward to see if the Board is interested in this. She said there is now a UDO, and in order to incorporate all of the previous work into the UDO a decision must be made regarding changes to the development approval process. Commissioner Rich asked if allowing the public hearings at regular meetings would make the process move faster. Perdita Holtz said it would probably not make the process move faster, as it is already a favorable approval time. She said it would make a monthly cycle for applicants to be heard earlier. Commissioner Rich asked what this means for staff time. Perdita Holtz said staff time is expected to remain the same. Commissioner Gordon clarified that the discussion tonight is simply about the Board commenting on the public hearing process and not the substance of Agricultural Enterprises. Perdita Holtz said yes. Commissioner Gordon said there are a lot of reasons why the public hearing process is done the way it is done today. She said there were major land use questions that would come up at these four quarterly public hearings. She said this meant that the public only had to keep track of these four hearings in order to follow an issue being discussed.