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ORANGE COUNTY <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 7, 2016 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Public Hearing Process – 1-Year Report <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />2016 Quarterly Public Hearing Items <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: (919) <br /> Perdita Holtz, 245-2578 <br /> Craig Benedict, 245-2592 <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To provide input into a 1-year report staff is preparing for the Board of County <br />Commissioners (BOCC) on the public hearing process revisions that were adopted in <br />November 2015. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: When the BOCC adopted amendments to the Unified Development <br />Ordinance (UDO) that revised the public hearing process, the Board also directed that staff <br />review the process after one year and provide a report to the BOCC on the revised process in <br />early 2017. Planning Board members may recall that the main revisions to the process <br />included: <br /> <br />• Having the Planning Board make its recommendation prior to the quarterly public <br />hearing. <br />• No longer requiring a Planning Board quorum in order to hold a quarterly public hearing. <br />(Planning Board members are still expected to attend the hearings). <br />• Increasing the mailed notice distance from 500 feet to 1,000 feet and providing mailed <br />notice of Planning Board meetings (in addition to the quarterly public hearing). <br /> <br />Items that were on the 2016 quarterly public hearing agendas are listed in the attachment. <br />There were a total of 11 items in 2016: <br />• 10 Legislative items <br />o 7 UDO text amendments <br />o 2 Zoning Atlas amendments <br />o 1 Hillsborough/Orange County Joint Land Use Plan amendment <br />• 1 Quasi-Judicial item <br />o Class A SUP for solar array <br /> <br />Of these 11 items, 7 were adopted by the BOCC the night of the hearing, including the Class A <br />SUP. One item was partially adopted and 3 items remain on-going (UDO text amendment and <br />zoning atlas amendment pertaining to the Hillsborough EDD and a text amendment pertaining <br />to subdivisions). <br /> <br /> 64