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72 Approved 11/5/14 431 with input earlier, we can get a better feel of what is going on. The Commissioners can see that when they read the 432 minutes and I think those are ways the Planning Board can be more engaged than it is now. 433 434 Bryant Warren: The problem with that is they want to meet with the top people and by having a joint public hearing 435 appearing with both then they are both getting the information and people are showing up for it. 436 437 Pete Hallenbeck: I wouldn't be surprised if it continues in the same way but I also don't want to penalize people who 438 want to learn how the systems works and try to get the most out of it. So if they have a 45 day notice and they come 439 to the Planning Board and they're organized and they come to us and say here's the concern and talk about it then 440 the Commissioners can read it. That's the closest we're going to come to that no- brainer crystal ball. They will be 441 much more informed, the Commissioners will, than if all this just hits them for the first time. 442 443 Bryant Warren: Right now we have one every 4 months, if it goes to every 2 months, is there not some way if we 444 need another public hearing we can call one or do we have a time frame that would keep us from doing that. 445 446 Craig Benedict: The Unified Development Ordinance does set out a public hearing specific dates of 4 a year. We 447 can amend the UDO to say there are other times we can consider amendments. As Perdita put up there, there are 448 three types of hearing, the legislative ones are typically a little bit easier. There is a good possibility we could move 449 some of those legislative items to a regular meeting and have some more opportunities for them. We know that the 450 quasi-judicial are usually the ones that are a little bit more labored because of the testimony and that would probably 451 clog up a regular meeting so having the quarterly public hearings isolated for them will probably remain a good idea. 452 We can consider regular Commission meetings to have a public hearing. 453 454 Bryant Warren: I know a lot of developers want to get it out, get it to the public, and get it back as quickly as they can 455 so they can start generating money from it. That's probably what we're trying to do is to accommodate some of them 456 so I don't see anything wrong with it. 457 458 Pete Hallenbeck: We have the full spectrum of the developers would love a two month process and a lot of citizens 459 would like a nine month process. What you're talking about with additional meetings, I know Commissioner Jacobs 460 was concerned that if you put additional public hearings on the normal Commissioner calendar, that's where the 461 crystal ball for the no- brainers comes in. You would hate to put, for example, that solar project on the end of a 462 budget meeting cause it would take too long, you really won't be doing the citizens any service, everybody would be 463 tired by the time it was midnight and probably wouldn't accomplish what you wanted. If you know, that crystal ball, 464 that this was going to be a 30 minute with no problem. 465 466 Herman Staats: Pete, so I understand correctly, the process that is on the white board now, is what we currently 467 use? 468 469 Pete Hallenbeck: Correct. 470 471 Herman Staats: Am I understanding you to say that we should have an additional Planning Board meeting with the 472 public and if so where in that process do you propose to put it? 473 474 Pete Hallenbeck: The question is the first item, these quarterly public hearing are on a certain schedule but we meet 475 every month. There's an opportunity to have that 45 day notice and have people come to a Planning Board meeting 476 and get citizen feedback quicker and then that feedback can be presented at the next available quarterly public 477 hearing it is unlikely that the Commissioners would decide at that time but that's where the no- brainer, crystal ball 478 comes in. It is far more likely that they will take that citizen input and kick it back to the Planning Board. We would 479 also be at that meeting, however the carrot and stick approach the Commissioners work out for getting us there. 480 481 Lisa Stuckey: So if I'm a citizen and I am bringing something forward, you're suggesting that there be a public 482 hearing in front of the Planning Board and then a public hearing in front of the Board of County Commissioners and 483 then it comes back to the Planning Board. 484 9