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R 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Excerpt of ORC Meeting Notes SUMMARY NOTES ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD JANUARY 8, 2014 ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE NOTE: A quorum is not required for Ordinance Review Committee meetings. Approved 2/5/14 MEMBERS PRESENT: Peter Hallenbeck (Chair), Cheeks Township Representative; James Lea, Cedar Grove Township Representative; Herman Staats, At- Large, Cedar Grove Township; Paul Guthrie, At- Large, Chapel Hill Township; Tony Blake, Bingham Township Representative; Buddy Hartley, Little River Township Representative; Johnny Randall, At -Large Chapel Hill Township; STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Perdita Holtz, Special Projects Coordinator; Ashley Moncado, Special Projects Planner; Jennifer Leaf, Planner I; Tina Love, Administrative Assistant II AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL AGENDA ITEM 2: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENTS - CHANGES TO THE PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS To continue review and comment upon proposed revisions to the LIDO to change the existing public hearing process and -to amend other provisions that need to be changed if the public hearing process is amended. Presenter: Perdita Holtz, Special Projects Coordinator 29 Perdita Holtz: Reviewed abstract. 30 31 Pete. Hallenbeck: I think the chart on page 11 is really good, it tells you.what's going on. I also like the idea of 32 discontinuing the joint BOCC /Planning Board meetings. It seems like the role of the Planning Board during these 33 meetings tends to be just to sit there and there are other opportunities for the Planning Board to voice its concern. 34 There is nothing to keep Planning Board members from attending the public hearing and I would not object if it was 35 decided that the Planning Board Chair was required to be at the public hearing or at least somebody from the 36 Planning Board. I do think it is good and important when you have citizen input to be able to hear it in addition to 37 just reading it. I think not having the joint meeting is good but I'd like to have a mechanism where someone from 38 the Planning Board is there so they can get more than the word. There are comments from both the 39 Commissioners and the public during the hearing and it would be good to have a member present to hear them. 40 41 Paul Guthrie: Basically, I think this is a good move for a couple of reason. One is the increased number of hearing 42 opportunities which I think can expedite a lot of the procedure and maybe take a little pressure off the planning staff 43 since it gets spread out. They don't have to dump everything into four quarters. I do have a couple of questions. 44 One is what kind of communication summarizing the public hearing will be transmitted to the Planning Board so that 45 the Planning Board can intelligently consider the topic? 46 47 Perdita Holtz: It is unlikely that official quarterly public hearing minutes would be available quick enough for 48 Planning Board meetings. We are envisioning that the Planning Board meeting would occur within two to three 49 weeks after the public hearing and generally meeting minutes take longer than that for the Clerk's office to turn 50 around. It would probably be, if the Planning Board was not going to view the meeting on the internet in the comfort 51 of your own home, similar to what happens now where comments that were made are in the amendment outline 52 form and the abstract and we provide a staff response, as necessary, to those comments. So it would pretty much 53 be a staff report of what took place.