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Attachment 5 26 <br /> Approved 12/2/15 <br /> Excerpt of Approved November 4, <br /> 1 2015 Planning Board 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 7: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE(UDO)TEXT AMENDMENT-To make a recommendation <br /> 19 to the BOCC on government-initiated amendments to the text of the UDO regarding <br /> 20 recreational land uses, including shooting ranges.This item was heard at the September <br /> 21 8, 2015 quarterly public hearing and was discusses at the October 7, 2015 Planning <br /> 22 Board Meeting <br /> 23 Presenter: Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor <br /> 24 <br /> 25 Michael Harvey reviewed the abstract and mentioned that the attorney's office may decide to take some of the <br /> 26 shooting range language out of the UDO and put it in the general code of ordinances. <br /> 27 <br /> 28 Lydia Wegman:What would be the process for putting it somewhere else? <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Michael Harvey:The County Attorney's office would have to draft the ordinance and take it to the County <br /> 31 Commissioners and they would have to approve it but it would be in the general county code of ordinances. It <br /> 32 wouldn't be a land use ordinance. So you all as an example wouldn't get to see it or comment on it because it's not a <br /> 33 land use ordinance. <br /> 34 <br /> 35 Lydia Wegman:Who would get to comment on it? <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Perdita Holtz:Anybody can show up at the BOCC meeting and sign up to speak. <br /> 38 <br /> 39 Paul Guthrie: One issue that might keep you slightly in the process would be that the applicant had to be able to <br /> 40 police all the brass and residue of shots off the property. It's changing the character of the land use. <br /> 41 <br /> 42 Michael Harvey:That was discussed and quite honestly the thought was that its ancillary component of the shooting <br /> 43 activity and while it may be an important one the issue is the safety with respect to the discharge of the firearm. <br /> 44 There are probably going to be regulations that will be enforced by other departments and agencies. <br /> 45 <br /> 46 Paul Guthrie: Have you begun to think through how you can link all of these organizations together for discussion of <br /> 47 these issues? <br /> 48 <br /> 49 Michael Harvey:All the agencies we talked about have completed peer review of these regulations and have said <br /> 50 that they have no concerns or comments. <br /> 51 <br /> 52 Lisa Stuckey: Do they care what we think? It seems to me that the enforcement of shooting regulations should be <br /> 53 done by the Sheriff's Office. <br /> 1 <br />