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10 <br /> Attachment 3 DRAFT <br /> Excerpt of Draft Minutes <br /> 1 MINUTES <br /> 2 PLANNING BOARD <br /> 3 NOVEMBER 4,2015 <br /> 4 REGULAR MEETING <br /> 5 <br /> 6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Peter Hallenbeck (Chair), Cheeks Township Representative; Lydia Wegman (Vice Chair), At- <br /> 7 Large Chapel Hill Township; Lisa Stuckey, Chapel Hill Township Representative; James Lea, Cedar Grove <br /> 8 Township Representative; Tony Blake, Bingham Township Representative; Paul Guthrie, At-Large Chapel Hill <br /> 9 Township; Andrea Rohrbacher, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Maxecine Mitchell, At-Large Bingham Township; <br /> 10 Buddy Hartley, Little River Township Representative; <br /> 11 <br /> 12 MEMBERS ABSENT: Laura Nicholson, Eno Township Representative; Herman Staats,At-Large; <br /> 13 <br /> 14 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor, Perdita Holtz, <br /> 15 Special Projects Coordinator, Ashley Moncado, Special Projects Planner, Meredith Pucci,Administrative Assistant II <br /> 16 <br /> 17 <br /> 18 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER <br /> 19 <br /> 20 <br /> 21 AGENDA ITEM 8: JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT AMENDMENT: To make a recommendation to the BOCC on <br /> 22 amendments to the text of the Joint Planning Agreement initiated by the Town of Chapel <br /> 23 Hill regarding membership of Transition Area residents on the Town's Planning <br /> 24 Commission and Board of Adjustment. This item was heard at the October 15, 2015 Joint <br /> 25 Planning Public Hearing. <br /> 26 <br /> 27 PRESENTER: Perdita Holtz, Planning Systems Coordinator <br /> 28 <br /> 29 Note: Peter Hallenbeck(Chair)left the meeting for a prior engagement and turned the meeting over to Lydia <br /> 30 Wegman (Vice Chair) <br /> 31 <br /> 32 Perdita Holtz reviewed the abstract. <br /> 33 <br /> 34 Paul Guthrie: A number of years ago the County Board of Commissioners sent my name to the Town of Chapel Hill <br /> 35 to represent the ETJ and rather than appoint me the Town of Chapel Hill's Planning Department redistributed the <br /> 36 seats and eliminated the position that I would have been in without any consultation with the County. I like option B <br /> 37 but one thing that should be done is to make sure they can't play games with that procedure. <br /> 38 <br /> 39 Tony Blake: I think it's very important that people from the neighborhoods be represented well on these boards. <br /> 40 Chapel Hill has been doing away with affordable housing and they seem to be pushing that responsibility more and <br /> 41 more on the county. <br /> 42 <br /> 43 Lisa Stuckey: So by state law the ETJ areas have to be represented by at least one person and that person is <br /> 44 appointed by the county commissioners, so we are talking about 200 acres and whether or not there should be an <br /> 45 appointed person to represent the two purple areas? <br /> 46 <br /> 47 Perdita Holtz:Yes,although it would be ETJ or Transition Area resident. <br /> 48 <br /> 49 Tony Blake: It's just to give them a bigger pool of people to choose from. <br /> 50 <br /> 51 Lisa Stuckey: ETJ is still under 7% of the population and has 2/9 of the representation, I kind of get why it's a <br /> 52 problem. I don't think they need one person for the two purple areas. <br /> 53 <br /> 1 <br />