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Approved 12/4/13 <br />3 <br /> 109 <br />Craig Benedict: We have highway corridors, bus corridors, rural areas and the whole county is not urbanville so the 110 <br />land use topic is a good one. 111 <br /> 112 <br />Tony Blake: The TTA is holding three informational sessions coming up. 113 <br /> 114 <br />Paul Guthrie: The TTA is not going to address the kind of issues I would address. 115 <br /> 116 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: The challenge is to get enough detail that it is not as broad as transit are in the development but 117 <br />no so much detail it is a 15 minute because you only have a minute or two. 118 <br /> 119 <br />James Lea: What is the County’s current ordinance on adult entertainment? 120 <br /> 121 <br />Michael Harvey: We have an arcane definition; we do not permit them which are technically in violation of state 122 <br />law. We have a draft ordinance that needs to go the attorney’s office for review but that is the current status. 123 <br /> 124 <br />Craig Benedict: For five years we have brought it up because you need to have this done before the issue comes 125 <br />up. 126 <br /> 127 <br />James Lea: Do we know what Larry’s concern was about adult entertainment. 128 <br /> 129 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: You want to get a handle on it before someone comes in and sees an area that will be industrial 130 <br />zoned. Residences are far away and schools and churches are far away and they put in a permit and there is 131 <br />nothing to legally keep you from saying no. 132 <br /> 133 <br />Craig Benedict: It hasn’t come to the top of the list for the BOCC to say go because it does bring a lot of attention 134 <br />to it. 135 <br /> 136 <br />James Lea: We do have them, we just don’t allow. Are we planning to develop an ordinance? 137 <br /> 138 <br />Craig Benedict: You would have to develop an ordinance that is consistent with state statute. You cannot be 139 <br />completely prohibitive but you can set distance requirements. 140 <br /> 141 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: We need to let the BOCC know that the county needs to get on top of before we get that first 142 <br />application. 143 <br /> 144 <br />Buddy Hartley: Nothing new. 145 <br /> 146 <br />Maxecine Mitchell: I would like to echo the concern about transportation. Affordable housing in Chapel Hill is 147 <br />probably non-existent. A lot of people have to look elsewhere in Hillsborough and how will they commute back and 148 <br />forth if their job is located in Chapel Hill or Carrboro since some people can’t afford a car and gas prices. 149 <br /> 150 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: When you discuss transit oriented development, you also want to focus on helping low income 151 <br />people. 152 <br /> 153 <br />Tony Blake: Under Item 2, I have been having some, just because of the USDA loan we used to build and expand 154 <br />our fire station, I have had interesting conversations with the USDA and I wonder if there is a partnership 155 <br />arrangement to encourage USDA to invest in some of these rural economic zones. Especially regarding sewer and 156 <br />water infrastructure which is holding people back from opening a small business. 157 <br /> 158 <br />Lisa Stuckey: I am really glad you are bringing up numbers four and five. We want to catch these spin off 159 <br />entrepreneurial companies that will come out of Carolina North. 160 <br /> 161