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Attachment 3 13 <br />Points for Courtesy Review: <br />1. Courtesy review , including with Hillsborough, need to be required by <br />ordinance. The process and public involvement should be spelled out in the <br />county's ordinance in general and in any joint planning agreement specifically. <br />2. There needs to be requirements that allow the same notification normally afforded <br />county residents for similar projects in the County be afforded to residents in <br />transition areas who are still county residents. <br />a. These projects should include any and all plan amendments, requests <br />for rezoning, SUP/CUP, and any proposed annexations. There should <br />not be any limitations on notifications for'the size of residential projects. <br />r~ '~~ <br />b. There s~'d be courtesy review far site plants. <br />3. There should be an established process for allowing public input on all such <br />projects. This should include opportunity for County Planning Board Review with <br />public comments as well as public hearings in front of the Commissioners. <br />4. The process should not be triggered by a "request" by the town but by way of <br />required notification of any and all applicable projects that have been received <br />and are being considered. Although it may be more efficient for the County staff <br />to wait until the town has completed its review, in fact the County would have <br />more input if its comments were made during the process as well as at the end. <br />5. There needs to be codified that no applicable project shall be voted on by any <br />town's governing body until the County's response and comments have been <br />forwarded to the staff f and are made fully available to the governing board at <br />public hearing by a staff member. <br />6. The issue of the absence of effective, legal review after annexation of a property <br />which was previously subject to an agreement that provided for review needs to <br />be revisited and explored by the County attorney. if in fact it is a legal reality <br />that annexation trumps a joint planning agreement, then future as well as <br />current Joint Planning Agreements need to be structured ar restructured to <br />strengthen the courtesy review process and opportunities for input from county <br />residents living in those joint planning areas. <br />7. The role of the County Commissioners needs to be strengthened. One idea is to <br />allow the Planning Board to determine at its review whether or not it would <br />recommend for any project to be also reviewed by the County Commissioners. <br />