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Attachment 3 — Excerpt of Approved 14 September 8, 2014 Quarterly Public Hearing Minutes APPROVED 10/7/2014 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING September 8, 2014 7:00 P.M. The Orange County Board of Commissioners met with the Orange County Planning Board for a Quarterly Public Hearing on September 8, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Building, in Hillsborough, N.C. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Mark Dorosin, Alice M. Gordon, Earl McKee, Bernadette Pelissier, Renee Price and Penny Rich COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: James Bryan (Staff Attorney) COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley and Deputy Clerk to the Board David Hunt (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Pete Hallenbeck and Planning Board members, Lisa Stuckey, Herman Staats, James Lea, Paul Guthrie, Tony Blake, Laura Nicholson, and Lydia Wegman PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Andrea Rohrbacher, Maxecine Mitchell, H.T. "Buddy" Hartley, Bryant Warren 4. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendment - To review government - initiated amendments to the text of the UDO to require that a neighborhood information meeting be held at least 30 days prior to the public hearing regarding applications for a Class A or Class B Special Use Permit. Michael Harvey said the next item on the agenda starts on page 61. He referred to the paper copies of two emails, as well as the three attachments in the abstract. He reviewed the background information and said at the May 27 Public Hearing, concerns were expressed by the Board that neighborhood meetings were not required for special use permits. He said staff noted that neighborhood meetings are currently required for all major subdivisions, conditional use and rezoning applications, as well as those individual land uses categorized as government uses. He said a neighborhood meeting is an opportunity for surrounding property owners to receive a presentation from the applicant providing a synopsis of the proposed project, as well to ask questions. Michael Harvey said staff keeps a record of this meeting, which is provided to the applicant, as well the Planning Board and the County Commissioners. He said this amendment proposes this same process be required for all special use permits, both Class A and Class B. He said staff is proposing this meeting should occur 30 days prior to a public hearing, and notifications would go our 15 days prior to that. Michael Harvey said staff has been coordinating this with the County Attorney's Office, and there have been some proposed language /word choice changes that will be made. He said staff will also incorporate comments from this evening Commissioner Pelissier asked how staff picked the timeframe of 30 days.