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D R A F T 4 Lisa Stuckey: Yeah, but maybe they don’t want to pay the taxes. If bringing the services in means higher taxes, I’m not sure that’s what they would want. Tony Blake: For example in the Mount Carmel area, would the town extend the water and sewer if they didn’t plan to annex it and people who bought there must have known this, that annexation intent, and that’s where it’s gotten fuzzy. Craig Benedict: I think it leaves some problems for later, the whole fire district tax and who is going to service. It does leave some lingering problems. Paul Guthrie: As a resident in that neighborhood, I can tell you that’s a much more complicated topic. There were false cost figures and the town manager of Chapel Hill’s estimated cost to the town for annexing the area, was way below what the tax rate was supposed to be and the insurance companies had failed to recognize the fact there were fire plugs in the neighborhood and took almost half the tax so there were a lot of other issues going on. Tony Blake: All I’m saying is that without a timeline, some sort of use it or lose it piece, it leaves that sort of question festering and you end up with this sort of situation. Lisa Stuckey: On page 19, under Planning Board review, number 2, it says there will be a notification in a newspaper. I worry a little that people might not see a notice in the paper. Most of the time I think the County advertises in the News of Orange which no one in Chapel Hill ever reads, I mean no one, and the other one is the Durham Herald which almost no one reads as well. I guess my other question is do people pay attention to the those sufficiently. To have it really be effective notice. Craig Benedict: I guess acknowledging that there might be a more elaborate way, besides the newspapers, the Commissioners might say to mail it. I’ve noted it and I’ll let the Commissioners know that if they want this stuff to be vetted at this level that a mail notice is probably more thorough. There’s later public hearings too. Maxecine Mitchell: If you put signs up that’s better than the newspaper. Pete Hallenbeck: The County needs to explore new ways to get the word out to everybody realizing how people get their information today. Lydia Wegman: Craig the point is to raise the issue. What level of involvement they want the Planning Board to have. Michael Harvey: One thing to remember, this is just a process to get to the state-required process, this is sort of an initial scoping session. You can start the formal process to extend the ETJ and it still may be denied regardless of what happens in this process. You are going to have multiple points of notification that has to occur. AGENDA ITEM 9 UPDATE ON PROPOSED EFLAND ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICTS: To receive an update on the proposed Efland zoning overlay districts (heard at the February 24, 2014 quarterly public hearing). This item will likely be on the March 4th Planning Board agenda for a recommendation to the BOCC. Presenter: Perdita Holts, Special Projects Coordinator Perdita Holtz updated the Planning Board on the progress of the Efland zoning overlay district and the meeting held. Lydia Wegman: These suggestions of the residents, are these changes that you are going to make in what you bring to us next month? Perdita Holtz: Yes, staff doesn’t have concerns. 8