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Attachment 1 g <br />POINTS FOR COURTESY REVIEW <br />(Handout by Planning Board Chair on 3-7-07 with Responses by Planning Staff) <br />1. Courtesy review, including with Hillsborough, needs to be required by <br />ordinance. The process and public involvement should be spelled out in <br />the County's ordinance in general and in any joint planning agreement <br />' specifically. <br />Response: This sounds straightforward and doable. However, the potential <br />impacts on staffing and established schedules for ongoing plans, projects, and <br />functions needs careful assessment. <br />2. There needs to be requirements that allow the same notification normally <br />afforded County residents for similar projects in the County be afforded to <br />residents in transition areas who are still County residents. <br />a. These projects should include any and all plan amendments, <br />requests for rezoning, SUP/CUP, and any proposed annexations. <br />There should not be any limitations on notifications to the size of <br />residential projects. <br />b. There might be courtesy review for site plans. <br />Response: Public hearing notice requirements are governed by NC General <br />Statutes and there is little, if any, difference between town and County <br />procedures. For other notifications such as the County requirement for a <br />neighborhood information meeting for Flexible Development concept plans, there <br />needs to be a review of town ordinances to see if there are similar requirements <br />for Transition Areas where courtesy review agreements are in effect. If not, a <br />formal request needs to come from the County asking that the'towns amend their <br />development ordinances to incorporate such a provision. <br />3. There should be an established process for allowing public input on all <br />such projects. This should include opportunity for County Planning Board <br />Review with public comments as well as public hearings in front of the <br />Commissioners. <br />Response: This adds an additional layer of review -not that it isn't necessary. <br />The best that might be accomplished is perhaps joint town/County Planning <br />Board meetings when such projects are considered. Unless it is a case like Joint <br />Planning which requires a public hearing attended by both the BOCC and town <br />board(s) and joint approval, the situation is probably not workable. The BOCC <br />holding a public hearing on a project it did not have approval authority over would <br />seem to be a moot point. A compromise position might be including such items <br />as informational items at the end of regular BOCC/Planning Board Quarterly <br />Public hearing agendas. <br />~~.K'nar~nt~e.ui:~e Csl~nn.in~ L~ii~GP.NG'r'lsnning f~:ar;.~'•'OL~,~'ninta'orC'(t-1ia~,^.c!rJc <br />