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you see them in the grocery store, please do not mention this. Don't send them emails. Don't call them, anything like that. Everything must be done in the hearing. Chair Jacobs: And I must say, although I understand through staff that we were invited to come out to the community to discuss this, that's the reason that staff recommended that we not do that. It's not that we are not interested in what the community has to say. And I think testimony that we're all still here is at least partial evidence that we are interested, but we are trying to follow the rules to the best of our ability. And especially as the state legislature works to constrict what we do, it's even more important for us to follow the rules that we have, so we don't give them more ammunition to attack our authority even more. So we have a motion that's been seconded. All in favor say, aye. Opposed. Motion carries unanimously. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Chair Jacobs: Mr. Benedict has a comment before we adjourn. Craig Benedict: Good evening. Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning and Inspections Director. I've heard a lot of comments tonight about procedure, public hearing procedure. As you know, we did have another item tonight to talk about how we could provide more information and opportunities. So, even the Commissioners tonight spoke of how much notice people get before specific items. Well, presently the unified development ordinance lists certain uses and the time frames involved. I think now that this, you've decided to delay this to the September gtn meeting, staff could begin working on kind of an adjunct process to what Perdita Holtz will be working on - about how to re-do our public hearing process. So, we'll try to get to the Commissioners in June, kind of what we heard you talking about tonight, about having more opportunity timeframe for residents to be involved in what happens in their community. And that might be an idea for uses such as this or other uses that we may identify, how the Commissioners can review and how the public can be involved with a neighborhood information meeting. As was mentioned by Commissioner Jacobs, with public uses such as even a fire station, the Commissioners recognized that that was something that the community might be interested in, positive or negative. So this can be an opportunity that we can bring back in September, if that's a time frame that my staff can develop. It would be an item that occurs after, you know, the adjudication of this specific item. But, if the Board would like planning staff, through the manager's office and the attorney's office to pursue this, we'll see what we can come up with in the next few weeks. Chair Jacobs: I think the Board would like you to do that, and we appreciate your offering that improvement. So, with that, if there is no further item — Mr. Manager, you have anything? Mr. Attorney? I will entertain a motion to adjourn. 1. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendment -To review government- initiated amendments to the text of the UDO to change the existing public hearing process for Comprehensive Plan-, UDO-, and Zoning Atlas-related items/amendments.