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APPROVED 10/13/2014 OC Board of Adjustment – 8/27/2014 Page 5 of 64 to the Town of Carrboro’s Land Use Regulations. The permit for the pipeline going through Carrboro 1 was handled on a staff review level and they have held off on processing that permit until the conclusion 2 of this hearing. Ordinance Requirements for this particular project are found within Section 5.9.5 of the 3 Orange County Unified Development Ordinance. Very briefly, the applicant is required to submit a site 4 plan. The Standard of Evaluation for this project are as follows and that is found in Section 5.9.5 (2) that 5 adequate provision has been made to protect adjacent property owners from the dangers of explosion, 6 rupture, collapse, fire or other menace to public health and safety. The public convenience and 7 necessity shall be served by the project and the applicant shall submit proof of liability insurance 8 covering bodily injury and property damage demonstrating a minimum coverage limit of $500,000 per 9 occurrence. I would like to remind the Board that Attachment 2 of your abstract, which you have already 10 entered into the record, contains the application including a detailed narrative providing answers to these 11 questions as well as proof of their liability insurance coverage which is $1,000,000 per occurrence, 12 $500,000 in excess of the County standard requirement. Some brief comments about the site plan, 13 sheets two and three, 37 and 46, contain a project description as well as the construction sequence, the 14 Erosion Control Sedimentation Control Management Plan and various notes detailing the parameters 15 under which this project will operate. As we articulate in this abstract, the applicant is required to obtain 16 state issued erosion control storm water management permits prior to the commencement of earth 17 disturbing activities. We have a condition which we will get to in a minute or a little later this evening, you 18 are going to note that as we point out in our abstract, and I’m on page 137 that there appear to be sheets 19 missing. That is specifically sheets 4 through 15. Those are for portions of this project within Alamance 20 County and not subject to Orange County’s permitting review process. They will be handled and 21 processed by Alamance County independent of any action taken this evening. The applicant’s narrative 22 contains information related to the compliance with other provisions of the Orange County Unified 23 Development Ordinance specifically dealing with, as I have already articulated, Subsections A and B of 24 5.9.2 of the UDO, Adequate provision has been made to protect adjacent property owners and the public 25 convenience and necessity shall be served by this proposed installation. I would also like to point out 26 that their abstract, excuse me; their narrative contains responses on how this project complies with 27 Section 5.3.2 of the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance detailing the general standards for 28 all special use projects. We will review those in a little more detail in a few moments. I would like to 29 state for the record as articulated in the abstract that a transmission line as proposed is a permitted use 30 in Orange County subject to the issuance of this permit. We have received comments from various 31 county agencies, most notably; you have before you a new memorandum issued by Environment 32 Agricultural Parks and Recreation, Environmental Health have indicated there are no permits necessary 33 from their department since this will not involve the installation of septic systems. Erosion Control Storm 34 Water Engineering, it’s going to be following state parameters and guidelines and be required to get a 35 permit through the state and not Orange County as this involves public funds. Building inspections, there 36 will be no locally issued permits. Again, it will be a state permitted project. Solid Waste, the site plan 37 contains the required notes that Solid Waste has indicated is necessary to deal with the disposal of 38 waste generated from this project. Emergency services, the sheriff, we have a comment from the 39 Orange County Fire Marshal; they would like to ensure there is appropriate language within easement 40 documents providing for emergency personnel access to the pipeline. They have also requested that the 41 applicant schedule an appropriate time of meeting with emergency services personnel and local 42 volunteer departments to review development of emergency action plan in the event of a gas line 43 incident occurs. The Department of Transportation has indicated they have no concerns related to this 44 project. Obviously, appropriate encroachment agreements will be necessary and some of the 45 information you are now looking at addressing some of those concerns from the Department of 46 Transportation. As you all know, we do not make recommendations with respect to this project’s 47 compliance with Section 5.3.2 (A) 2 and I am paraphrasing greatly but this is on page 139 of your 48 abstract. First that the use will maintain or promote the public health safety and general welfare. 49 Number two, the use will maintain or enhance the value of contiguous property and I should add that the 50 ordinance says unless the use is a public necessity in which case the use need not maintain or enhance 51 the value of contiguous property and last but not least, location and character of the use if developed 52 according to planned is in harmony with the area and is consistent with the physical development of the 53 County as embodied not only in our zoning regulations but also within the adopted comprehensive plan. 54 Beginning on page 140, staff has identified several goals that we believe support this application 55