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45 <br />Approved 12/3/14 <br />377 <br />James Bryan: Every jurisdiction is different. This place has a lot of educated folks and a lot of money which is <br />378 <br />different than others that don’t have those things. <br />379 <br />380 <br />Maxecine Mitchell: We are pretty much serving as a double check to the staff to make sure the applicant did <br />381 <br />everything according to the rules and laws of the County who, if they meet them and let them move forward so if a <br />382 <br />project happens in my area, I can know and prepare my neighbors. <br />383 <br />384 <br />Michael Harvey: Staff is preparing a script based on the evidence entered into the record and testimony at the <br />385 <br />hearing. Some items are basedsoley on the testimony of the public hearing. <br />386 <br />387 <br />Bryant Warren: Being on the Hillsborough Planning Board, this is totally different. We met then the Planning Board <br />388 <br />met and made recommendations. This sounds different and if we are not going to be in the public hearing,just the <br />389 <br />BOCC,then they will have the final say then there is nothing we can do about it. We can have an information <br />390 <br />meeting prior to that. I don’t really see any place for a Planning Boardin this process. <br />391 <br />392 <br />Perdita Holtz: Special Use Permits applications will have a Neighborhood Information Meeting45 days ahead of the <br />393 <br />public hearing. <br />394 <br />395 <br />Bryant Warren: What about having that informational meeting at the Planning Boardmeeting and let them be there. <br />396 <br />397 <br />Perdita Holtz: We will look at that but sometimes the way the schedule works in quarters and having ORC Ordinance <br />398 <br />Review meetings sometimes, we might not be able to do everything in one night.There can be a scheduling difficulty <br />399 <br />when you have more than one meeting. <br />400 <br />401 <br />James Lea: It sounds like there is plus to making recommendations or just having quasi-judicialmeetings. <br />402 <br />403 <br />Tony Blake: In this way our role is to inform more than represent. <br />404 <br />405 <br />Perdita Holtz: Should that pre-meeting with the Planning Boardbe the Neighborhood Information Meetingtogether? <br />406 <br />407 <br />Lisa Stuckey: In these cases, the folks are hiring lawyers so this is more expense to them. Maybe the lawyer is at <br />408 <br />the neighborhood meeting and then to our meeting and then they will do the public hearing. <br />409 <br />410 <br />Lydia Wegman: In your list you say if the Planning Boardcontinues to make a recommendation so are you assuming <br />411 <br />there is a room as a legal matter to make a recommendation if the Planning Boardmeeting occurs before the <br />412 <br />meeting of the BOCC? <br />413 <br />414 <br />James Lea: It sounds like we are not making recommendations. <br />415 <br />416 <br />James Bryan: You have the public hearing. The first person to speak is staff who introduces it,reviewing the packet, <br />417 <br />and one item will be the Planning Boardrecommendation. <br />418 <br />419 <br />Lydia Wegman: The Planning Boardcould hear whatever we arehearing from the public from the applicant and <br />420 <br />make a recommendation prior to the public hearing that would go into the record that the BOCC would consider? <br />421 <br />422 <br />James Bryan: Right. The BOCC can’t make a decision based on that recommendation. But it could prompt them to <br />423 <br />ask the right questions. <br />424 <br />425 <br />Tony Blake: Wouldn’t staff do that anyway? <br />426 <br />427 <br />Paul Guthrie: Prior to the formal legal hearing, could this group discuss the project and appear as a witness for <br />428 <br />information at the legal hearing? <br />429 <br />430 <br />James Bryan: It depends on the facts but in general, no.I would object. <br />8 <br /> <br />