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D R A F T <br />1 <br />MINUTES 1 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 2 NOVEMBER 5, 2014 3 <br />REGULAR MEETING 4 5 <br /> 6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Lisa Stuckey (Vice-Chair), Chapel Hill Township Representative; James Lea, Cedar Grove 7 <br />Township Representative; Tony Blake, Bingham Township Representative; Laura Nicholson, Eno Township 8 <br />Representative; Paul Guthrie, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Andrea Rohrbacher, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; 9 <br />Buddy Hartley, Little River Township Representative; Maxecine Mitchell, At-Large Bingham Township; Bryant 10 <br />Warren, Hillsborough Township Representative; Lydia Wegman-At-Large Chapel Hill Township; 11 <br /> 12 MEMBERS ABSENT: Peter Hallenbeck (Chair), Cheeks Township Representative; Herman Staats, At-Large, Cedar 13 <br />Grove Township; 14 <br /> 15 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor, Perdita Holtz, 16 <br />Special Projects Coordinator, Tina Love, Administrative Assistant II 17 <br /> 18 OTHERS PRESENT: Bonnie Hammersley, County Manager; James Bryan, Staff Attorney; 19 <br /> 20 <br />AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 21 22 AGENDA ITEM 2: INFORMATIONAL ITEMS 23 <br />a) Planning Calendar for October and November 24 <br />b) Dinner meeting with BOCC & quarterly public hearing on November 24, 2014 has been 25 <br />cancelled 26 <br />c) Chapel Hill ETJ Expansion Request 27 <br /> 28 <br />Craig Benedict gave an overview of the ETJ Expansion Request. 29 <br /> 30 <br />Craig Benedict: There is an area of the Joint Planning Area of Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the 31 <br />transition area. In order to fund certain infrastructure improvements, Chapel Hill would be able to contribute more if 32 <br />it was part of their ETJ. That request will be going to the BOCC on November 18. 33 <br /> 34 <br />Tony Blake: This goes from the town operation center to the south. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Craig Benedict: This is a 1,000 acre area and would include the whole section northwest of Chapel Hill. 37 <br /> 38 <br />Paul Guthrie: I would encourage you that before the next one comes up that a standard process be created for this. 39 <br />The communications from Chapel Hill for the County is minimal at best. 40 <br /> 41 <br />Andrea Rohrbacher: I agree with Paul about the communications but because of other issues with this area, they 42 <br />monitor very carefully and have been active participants, this has come up before. 43 <br /> 44 <br />Craig Benedict: The BOCC asked me to meet with ETJ and Joint Planning area representatives in Mebane, 45 <br />Hillsborough, Carrboro and Chapel Hill to see if they understand the role of being a representative in an area that 46 <br />does not vote. 47 <br /> 48 AGENDA ITEM 3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES 49 <br />October 8, 2014 Regular Meeting 50 <br /> 51 MOTION by Bryant Warren to approve the minutes. Seconded by Tony Blake. 52 <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS 53 54 <br />5