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DRAFT MATES <br />a <br />1 DRAFT <br />2 MINUTES <br />3 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />4 AND <br />5 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />6 QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING <br />7 November 20, 2006 <br />8 7:30 p.m. <br />9 <br />10 The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board <br />11 met for a Quarterly Public Hearing on Monday, November 20, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. in the F. <br />12 Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, N.C. <br />13 <br />14 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Valerie <br />15 Foushee, Moses Carey, Jr., and Alice M. Gordon <br />16 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Stephen H. Halkiotis <br />17 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoff Gledhill <br />18 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Interim County Manager Rod Visser, and Deputy Clerk to <br />19 the Board David Hunt (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br />20 PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Jay Bryan and Members Crauford <br />21 Goodwin, Michelle Kempinski, .Sam Lasris, Renee Price-Saunders, Judith Wegner, and Jeffrey <br />22 Schmitt <br />23 PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Brian Dobyns, Bernadette Pelissier, Joel <br />24 Knight, Sandra Johnson-Quinn, Brian Crawford <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />28 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 , <br />32 A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br />33 Chair Jacobs called the meeting to order. He asked Planning Board Chair Jay Bryan to <br />34 preside over the public hearing. <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br />38 The Planning Board Chair dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br />39 <br />40 C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br />41 Planning Director Craig Benedict said that there will be six public hearing items on this <br />42 agenda. There are also four informational items. <br />43 ~ Craig Benedict introduced Planner Michael Harvey to address the first item. <br />44 <br />45~ 1. Zoning Atlas Amendment: Request by Brian and Lydia Gilmour to rezone a portion of <br />46 their property at 6500 Yarborough Road (TMBL 3.54.2A) from Existing Commercial-V (EC- <br />47 5) to Agricultural Residential (AR). <br />48 <br />49 Planner Michael Harvey introduced this item. He said that EC-5 was created at the advent <br />50 of comprehensive Countywide zoning in an effort to make existing. commercial operations conform <br />51 to ordinance requirements. Mr. Gilmour approached staff about the possibility of subdividing his <br />