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DRAFT 217 218 Craig Benedict: That would be just the Commissioners and as the Chair said, we would suggest the Planning Board 219 attend here or they could watch it on Granicus or they could watch a video of it or they could look at the minutes. 220 (referring to board) This would not be a formal, this isn't the formal public hearing here, it's just a point where we can 221 let people know in a neighborhood information meeting that the Planning Board is going to be hearing this item. It is 222 what's called a Planning Board hearing, formal hearing will always stay with the Commissioners that's what state 223 laws says. 224 225 Bryant Warren: I don't think you're going to get as many people showing up for just a public hearing with the 226 Planning Board as you're going to get to show up for the Commissioners and Planning Board combined. 227 228 Craig Benedict: It's true, the Planning Board and staff may be able to answer some questions here at this pre - 229 meeting. At this crystal ball meeting. Even at this point here, we're going to be educating the public because that's 230 what the Commissioners suggested. Let them know about what process we're going through, is it legislative, is it 231 quasi-judicial let them know what levels of input there are, is it going to be formal expert or can it be anecdotal i.e., 232 we don't think that fits the neighborhood. We can do a lot of education here, having something early where the public 233 can be invited. It probably would be a lot more attendance at Planning Board meetings than you've had in the past. 234 It still goes to the formal public hearing, let's call that the legal public hearing. Then the Commissioners have the 235 opportunity to decide at that point to bounce it back or to themselves two weeks hence. 236 237 Perdita Holtz: This Planning Board meeting where he crossed off formal review, the Planning Board recommendation 238 meeting, where there would be notices that actually went out and the property would get posted with a sign to let 239 people know that the Planning Board meeting was happening, it would not be a formal public hearing, it would just be 240 a Planning Board meeting with changing the way we notify the public about Planning Board meetings so that people 241 would know the Planning Board meeting was happening, they would be able to come and speak, it wouldn't have to 242 be written comments only and at the conclusion of that meeting the Planning Board would make a recommendation 243 on whether they thought the application should be approved or not, on legislative items. Craig is a little bit mixing 244 legislative and quasi-judicial together. Then the item would go to public hearing with the Planning Board 245 recommendation. At the public hearing the BOCC could decide, man there's so many people here that maybe didn't 246 talk at the Planning Board meeting; we really should kick it back to the Planning Board for them to consider this other 247 information that came out at the public hearing. Or, the BOCC could decide this is one of those no- brainers, the 248 people who have been on the Planning Board before will remember the discussion about no- brainers, this is a no- 249 brainer, we can close the public hearing tonight and we can just vote on it, or they can say, well, you know the 250 Planning Board gave us a recommendation, nothing major has come out but I want to mull this over more and the 251 BOCC can say let's schedule it for a later meeting. 252 253 Loss of recording device /full memory- approximate 7 to 9 minutes lost. 254 [There was some discussion about how notices about the Planning Board meeting would be sent via first class mail 255 to adjacent property owners and a sign would be posted on the affected property, in the case of map amendments]. 256 257 Pete Hallenbeck: It is important that the notifications be a blend of the dry legal requirements of notification and a 258 nice human readable, ok guys here's how it's going to work- we're going to have to this meeting here's what you can 259 do, this is an opportunity for you, so it explains the process and people know what is going on. 260 261 Tony Blake: I have a couple of comments; I don't know how much power we really have. I think we're maybe 262 assuming that we have more power than we do here. We are really looking at the UDO and deciding whether or not 263 a project meets the criteria of the UDO, we can't just all of a sudden say, no we don't like that, and the second part of 264 it is, I think we're all here to represent some part of the County. I represent Bingham because I live there and 265 because I have other contacts in the community and it seems to me that we should be part of the notification list for 266 any public information session in our area of representation. We should be at least as strongly encouraged to attend 267 that public information meeting on behalf of the Planning Board and all the Planning Board members be encouraged 268 to attend any public information meeting as that somewhat cloudy crystal because I think you can tell from a public 269 information meeting how many people show up as to what kind of a response you're going to get and what the real 270 concerns and questions are that need to be addressed up front. I don't really understand the quasi - judicial role we