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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />Attachment 3 <br />Excerpt of Draft March 27, 2014 <br />Joint Public Hearing Minutes <br />DRAFT <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN <br />JOINT PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING <br />March 27, 2014 <br />7:00 P.M. <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met with the Towns of Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro for a Joint Planning Public Hearing on Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the <br />Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill. N.C. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Mark <br />Dorosin, Alice M. Gordon, Earl McKee, Bernadette Pelissier, Renee Price, and Penny Rich <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Interim County Manager Michael Talbert, Assistant County <br />Manager Cheryl Young, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be <br />identified appropriately below) <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS /STAFF PRESENT: Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt, <br />Donna Bell, Sally Greene, Ed Harrison, Lee Storrow, Jim Ward, Maria Palmer, George <br />Cianciolo, and Town Manager Roger Stancil <br />CHAPEL HILLTOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Matt Czajkowski <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEMBERS PRESENT /STAFF: Mayor Lydia Lavelle, <br />Aldermen Damien Seils, Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven O'Donnell, and Sammy Slade <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEMBERS ABSENT: Michelle Johnson <br />CARRBORO STAFF ABSENT: Town Manager David Andrews <br />Chair Jacobs called the meeting to order at 7:06 pm. <br />C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br />1. Text Amendments to the Joint Plannina Land Use Plan and Aareement — <br />Michael Harvey said this is a public hearing to review proposed amendments to existing <br />language to ensure agricultural activities are recognized as being allowed throughout the Rural <br />Buffer, require a minimum 2 acre density, allow for the clustering of subdivision lots in those <br />portions of the Rural Buffer outside of the University Lake Watershed Area, and clarify text <br />associated with the minimum lot size within the University Lake Watershed Area. <br />Michael Harvey presented the following PowerPoint slides: <br />MARCH 27, 2014 <br />AGENDA ITEM: C -1 <br />JOINT PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING <br />ORANGE COUNTY, TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL, TOWN OF CARRBORO <br />JOINT PLANNING IN ORANGE COUNTY: <br />Began in 1984 with a call for the development of a land use plan. <br />Participants adopted a Joint Planning Land Use Plan October 13, 1986 outlining <br />acceptable levels of development in identified areas outside of existing extraterritorial <br />jurisdictional (ETJ) areas. <br />21 <br />