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I Approved 12/3/14 377 James Bryan: Every jurisdiction is different. This place has a lot of educated folks and a lot of money which is 378 different than others that don't have those things. 379 380 Maxecine Mitchell: We are pretty much serving as a double check to the staff to make sure the applicant did 381 everything according to the rules and laws of the County who, if they meet them and let them move forward so if a 382 project happens in my area, I can know and prepare my neighbors. 383 384 Michael Harvey: Staff is preparing a script based on the evidence entered into the record and testimony at the 385 hearing. Some items are based soley on the testimony of the public hearing. 386 387 Bryant Warren: Being on the Hillsborough Planning Board, this is totally different. We met then the Planning Board 388 met and made recommendations. This sounds different and if we are not going to be in the public hearing, just the 389 BOCC, then they will have the final say then there is nothing we can do about it. We can have an information 390 meeting prior to that. I don't really see any place for a Planning Board in this process. 391 392 Perdita Holtz: Special Use Permits applications will have a Neighborhood Information Meeting 45 days ahead of the 393 public hearing. 394 395 Bryant Warren: What about having that informational meeting at the Planning Board meeting and let them be there. 396 397 Perdita Holtz: We will look at that but sometimes the way the schedule works in quarters and having ORC Ordinance 398 Review meetings sometimes, we might not be able to do everything in one night. There can be a scheduling difficulty 399 when you have more than one meeting. 400 401 James Lea: It sounds like there is plus to making recommendations or just having quasi-judicial meetings. 402 403 Tony Blake: In this way our role is to inform more than represent. 404 405 Perdita Holtz: Should that pre- meeting with the Planning Board be the Neighborhood Information Meeting together? 406 407 Lisa Stuckey: In these cases, the folks are hiring lawyers so this is more expense to them. Maybe the lawyer is at 408 the neighborhood meeting and then to our meeting and then they will do the public hearing. 409 410 Lydia Wegman: In your list you say if the Planning Board continues to make a recommendation so are you assuming 411 there is a room as a legal matter to make a recommendation if the Planning Board meeting occurs before the 412 meeting of the BOCC? 413 414 James Lea: It sounds like we are not making recommendations. 415 416 James Bryan: You have the public hearing. The first person to speak is staff who introduces it, reviewing the packet, 417 and one item will be the Planning Board recommendation. 418 419 Lydia Wegman: The Planning Board could hear whatever we are hearing from the public from the applicant and 420 make a recommendation prior to the public hearing that would go into the record that the BOCC would consider? 421 422 James Bryan: Right. The BOCC can't make a decision based on that recommendation. But it could prompt them to 423 ask the right questions. 424 425 Tony Blake: Wouldn't staff do that anyway? 426 427 Paul Guthrie: Prior to the formal legal hearing, could this group discuss the project and appear as a witness for 428 information at the legal hearing? 429 430 James Bryan: It depends on the facts but in general, no. I would object. L9.1