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21 <br /> 108 <br /> 109 Tony Blake: Sure,well I don't know so it's not clear to me that you could amend the airport thing and have it <br /> 110 supersede this or what.That I'm not clear on. It's my way of highlighting it. <br /> 111 <br /> 112 Lisa Stuckey: I think that's not a bad idea. <br /> 113 <br /> 114 Lydia Wegman:Yeah. Craig or Perdita, any comments on that? <br /> 115 <br /> 116 Perdita Holtz:That's something that can be looked at when we go forward with the airport regulations, that the ORC <br /> 117 looked at in November. <br /> 118 <br /> 119 Paul Guthrie: I just want to follow up on that. I think that's right for the point that he's making. I think there are some <br /> 120 issues beyond that that we could stumble into that you may at some point want to give yourself a background policy <br /> 121 to help you carry that out and don't hit them blind without any resource other than the fact that the rules didn't say we <br /> 122 had to do it. I can think of lots or monster projects that don't take up a lot of ground that could have a great deal of <br /> 123 interest in the County as a whole, and so I think you need to think whether you need some kind of framing that will <br /> 124 give you the latitude to move ahead and not get stopped with procedural issues at the beginning. <br /> 125 <br /> 126 Perdita Holtz:Well, there have been instances in the past, Paul,when there have been major actions that we've <br /> 127 gone out and done informational sessions and stuff like that,and that's done on a case by case basis depending on <br /> 128 what the action is. It's just,we haven't done anything like that for the past 2 or 3 years because there haven't been <br /> 129 major actions, but there is precedent that we've done stuff like that. <br /> 130 <br /> 131 Lydia Wegman:And I'll just add if I could, that it seems to be that those are projects that would come up as <br /> 132 independent or individual projects where it might come up, as opposed to something that would easily generally <br /> 133 define in the UDO text amendment. <br /> 134 <br /> 135 Perdita Holtz:Yes, and that's just something that the County can undertake as part of their discretion in being a <br /> 136 government, particularly with the County'as the instigator. As you know, it gets dicier if it's a SUP. <br /> 137 <br /> 138 Craig:When we submit to the commissioners say, an amendment outline form, they ask us to do something and we <br /> 139 develop this form to say, "this is how we think we can accomplish it, this is what Boards may be involved, maybe the <br /> 140 environmental board is part of the amendment process." And we also suggest public outreach that may be beyond <br /> 141 what the code says and that would be an opportunity for the commission to say, "Well,we think there should be a <br /> 142 broader outreach meeting beyond 1,000 feet. So that can occur, especially when it's government initiated. <br /> 143 <br /> 144 Tony Blake:Yeah, the SUP case I was thinking of is the guy who builds the subdivision with 10 or 15 houses and a <br /> 145 runway and everybody's got their own little hangar; is that a public airport? Is that a private airport?And then if it's a <br /> 146 SUP and you only have to notify people within 1,000 feet that landing and taking off could extend quite a bit beyond <br /> 147 there.That's the just of my concern. <br /> 148 <br /> 149 Lydia Wegman: Okay,great, thank you. <br /> 150 <br /> 151 Patricia Roberts: Is there any airport planned? <br /> 152 <br /> 153 Craig Benedict: No, there are no airports planned.We are in the process of updating our airport regulations. Some of <br /> 154 our outreach meetings were occurring around the holidays so it was decided to move it to a less busy time to <br /> 155 evaluate the new regulations.The best time to update your regulations is when there are no proposals out there. So <br /> 156 we will begin again,we're going to speak with the commissioners in a work session about the process and the <br /> 157 parameters of some of the updates and it probably will not come back until later this year. <br /> 158 <br /> 159 Lisa Stuckey: I think all the schools I dealt with were in the cities of Chapel Hill or Carrboro, their jurisdictions. But <br /> 160 typically,we went way beyond 1,000 feet and there was a community meeting and there was a lot of use of various <br /> 3 <br />