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