Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
1 49 <br /> Excerpt of Draft Minutes Attachment 4 <br /> 1 DRAFT MINUTES <br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> 3 QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING <br /> 4 September 8, 2015 <br /> 5 7:00 P.M. <br /> 6 <br /> 7 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met with the Orange County Planning <br /> 8 Board for a Quarterly Public Hearing on September 8, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Building, <br /> 9 in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> 10 <br /> 11 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Earl McKee and Commissioners Barry Jacobs, <br /> 12 Mia Burroughs, Mark Dorosin, Bernadette Pelissier, Renee Price and Penny Rich <br /> 13 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> 14 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: James Bryan (Staff Attorney) <br /> 15 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br /> 16 Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified <br /> 17 appropriately below) <br /> 18 PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Pete Hallenbeck and Planning Board <br /> 19 members Lisa Stuckey, Herman Staats, Paul Guthrie, Laura Nicholson, Andrea Rohrbacher, <br /> 20 Maxecine Mitchell, H.T. "Buddy" Hartley, James Lea, Tony Blake <br /> 21 PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Lydia Wegman <br /> 22 <br /> 23 Chair McKee called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. <br /> 24 <br /> 25 ********************************************** <br /> 26 C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br /> 27 <br /> 28 2. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendment -To review government- <br /> 29 initiated amendments to the text of the UDO to revise the existing public hearing process <br /> 30 for Comprehensive Plan-, UDO-, and Zoning Atlas-related items/amendments. <br /> 31 <br /> 32 Perdita Holtz presented the following background and PowerPoint slides: <br /> 33 The purpose of this text amendment is to consider revisions to the current public hearing <br /> 34 process for Comprehensive Plan, Unified Development Ordinance, and Zoning Atlas <br /> 35 amendments. County staff and elected officials received comments during development of the <br /> 36 Comprehensive Plan (2008) and Unified Development Ordinance (2011) about the perceived <br /> 37 need to streamline and speed up decisions on applications. <br /> 38 This topic was discussed extensively in 2014 after being heard at the September 2014 <br /> 39 quarterly public hearing. The public hearing for the amendments, as proposed in 2014, was <br /> 40 closed in November 2014 when it became apparent that the proposal would change significantly <br /> 41 enough to require another public hearing. The topic was recently discussed at the May 12, <br /> 42 2015 BOCC work session. <br /> 43 The Ordinance Review Committee (ORC), a function of the Planning Board, reviewed draft <br /> 44 language in July and August 2015. At the time, internal staff/attorney review was ongoing and <br /> 45 the materials to be presented at public hearing have been modified from the versions the ORC <br /> 46 reviewed. <br /> 47 The following revisions are being proposed: <br />