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NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> <br />A joint public hearing will be held at the Department of Social Services, Hillsborough <br />Commons, 113 Mayo St., Hillsborough, North Carolina, on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at <br />7:00 PM for the purpose of giving all interested citizens an opportunity to speak for or <br />against the following items: <br /> <br />1. Application for a Class A Special Use Permit: In accordance with the provisions <br />of Section 2.7 Special Use Permits and Section 5.9.6 of the Orange County Unified <br />Development Ordinance (UDO), Sunlight Partners LLC, SunDurance Energy, and <br />Shelia Bishop, Michael Bishop, and Annie Nunn have submitted a Class A Special <br />Use Permit application seeking to develop a solar array/public utility station on two <br />parcels of property, totaling approximately 50 acres in area, off of Mt. Sinai Road <br />near Cascade Drive in Chapel Hill Township. <br /> <br />Sunlight Partners LLC intends to lease the parcels, with Parcel Identification <br />Numbers (PIN) of 9881-38-8874 and 9881-49-3072, to develop a 5 megawatt <br />facility involving the erection of individual solar arrays. <br /> <br />The properties in question are zoned Rural Buffer (RB) and are located within the <br />Rural Buffer land use category as denoted on the Future Land Use Map of the <br />Comprehensive Plan and the Rural Designated Area as denoted on the Growth <br />Management System Map. <br /> <br />Purpose: To review the item and receive public comment on the application. <br /> <br />2. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendment: In accordance with <br />the provisions of Section 2.8 Zoning Atlas and Unified Development Ordinance <br />Amendments of the Unified Development Ordinance, the Planning Director has <br />initiated amendments to the text of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). <br /> <br />The purpose of the amendments is to change the existing public hearing process for <br />Comprehensive Plan-, UDO-, and Zoning Atlas-related items/amendments. <br />The following Sections are proposed for amendments: 2.1, 2.3, 2.7, 2.8, 5.10.2. <br /> <br />The proposed amendments would replace the existing joint Board of County <br />Commissioners (BOCC)/Planning Board quarterly public hearings with a minimum of <br />eight (8) BOCC-only public hearing dates per year. The Planning Board would make <br />its recommendation to the BOCC after the public hearing but a quorum of Planning <br />Board members would no longer be necessary to hold a public hearing. Discussion <br />on when a public hearing is closed to additional comments is likely to take place at <br />the May 27, 2014 public hearing and changes to the proposed language may occur <br />as a result of such discussion. <br /> <br />Attachment 1 <br />8