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Attachment 1 NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD A joint public hearing will be held at the Department of Social Services, Hillsborough Commons, 113 Mayo St., Hillsborough, North Carolina, on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at 7:00 PM for the purpose of giving all interested citizens an opportunity to speak for or against the following items- 1 . Application for a Class A Special Use Permit: In accordance with the provisions of Section 2.7 Special Use Permits and Section 5.9.6 of the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), Sunlight Partners LLC, SunDurance Energy, and Shelia Bishop, Michael Bishop, and Annie Nunn have submitted a Class A Special Use Permit application seeking to develop a solar array /public utility station on two parcels of property, totaling approximately 50 acres in area, off of Mt. Sinai Road near Cascade Drive in Chapel Hill Township. Sunlight Partners LLC intends to lease the parcels, with Parcel Identification Numbers (PIN) of 9881 -38 -8874 and 9881 -49 -3072, to develop a 5 megawatt facility involving the erection of individual solar arrays. The properties in question are zoned Rural Buffer (RB) and are located within the Rural Buffer land use category as denoted on the Future Land Use Map of the Comprehensive Plan and the Rural Designated Area as denoted on the Growth Management System Map. Purpose: To review the item and receive public comment on the application. 2. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendment: In accordance with the provisions of Section 2.8 Zoning Atlas and Unified Development Ordinance Amendments of the Unified Development Ordinance, the Planning Director has initiated amendments to the text of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). The purpose of the amendments is to change the existing public hearing process for Comprehensive Plan -, UDO -, and Zoning Atlas- related items /amendments. The following Sections are proposed for amendments: 2.1, 2.3, 2.7, 2.8, 5.10.2. The proposed amendments would replace the existing joint Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) /Planning Board quarterly public hearings with a minimum of eight (8) BOCC -only public hearing dates per year. The Planning Board would make its recommendation to the BOCC after the public hearing but a quorum of Planning Board members would no longer be necessary to hold a public hearing. Discussion on when a public hearing is closed to additional comments is likely to take place at the May 27, 2014 public hearing and changes to the proposed language may occur as a result of such discussion.