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Approved 11/5/14 5 217 AGENDA ITEM 9: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENT: To make a recommendation to 218 the BOCC on government-initiated amendments to the text of the UDO to require that a 219 neighborhood information meeting be held at least 45 days prior to the public hearing 220 regarding applications for a Class A or Class B Special Use Permit. This item was heard at 221 the September 8, 2014 quarterly public hearing. 222 Presenter: Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor 223 224 Michael Harvey reviewed abstract 225 226 Tony Blake: I have a couple of questions, it seems to me 45 days is obsessive but what we really need is a window 227 of time because you don’t want somebody introducing a plan and two years and then 45 days before they execute 228 have a neighborhood information meeting. 229 230 Michael Harvey: That doesn’t typically happen. 231 232 Tony Blake: It seems me that there should be a minimum and a maximum. The second is in the rural areas, 500 233 feet is not sufficient. What you will get are people who are really against whatever it is as opposed to a broader 234 audience of people who may benefit from it in a larger sense. I am pointing specifically to the fire station substation 235 we built. If we had strictly stayed with the 500 feet we would have gotten the people who didn’t want to live within 236 500 feet of a fire station instead of the larger population who would benefit from a reduction in insurance rates. You 237 are going to miss in this neighborhood information meeting, the point of view of the greater good. 238 239 Michael Harvey: You’re allowed to your opinion and I don’t want to argue with you on it. It is your opinion, I see pro 240 and con to it. The only comment I will make is that the notice that we send out is not the only means of advertising 241 we also post the property. I think when you take a look for example the Binks solar facility, which we did notify 242 people within 500 feet of the property, if you extend that to 1000 feet you would quite frankly only have captured 20 243 or 30 additional properties owners. Some of which were there because of the advertising signs we had put out at the 244 property. 245 246 Tony Blake: I invite people to do the research and look and see roughly how many notices you actually sent out on 247 these in the rural areas. I think you’ll see it 2, 3, 4 people. 248 249 Michael Harvey: I don’t dispute that there are situations where you have areas with large properties where even a 250 1000 feet wouldn’t make much difference. 251 252 Tony Blake: I understand that registered mail is a cost. It seems to me like there could be other ways to 253 communicate. Those are my comments. 254 255 Michael Harvey: Ok 256 257 Paul Guthrie: I want to go the other way, I think the bigger problem may be in urbanizing areas in terms of the costs. 258 I thought about our house and it is on a less than one acre lot and under the 500 foot rule, everywhere except one 259 location you’d pick up maybe 6 or 8 maybe 10 houses. Right across from us is a condominium with about 25 units. 260 So to do anything that requires a Special Use Permit, the homeowner would maybe need 35 registered letters. I can 261 conceive of this in a larger or fringe of an urban area having a high density property of one property among many 262 others that could raise the costs for the applicant significantly. I am a little concerned about what that does to the 263 small, not to the large corporate well-financed organization, but the small organization that for one reason or another 264 needs a Special Use Permit. Assuming it is compatible with the general character of the neighborhood, having to 265 spend that money. 266 267 Michael Harvey: Again, Mr. Blake is not incorrect and you’re not incorrect either. There are pros and cons to both 268 sides of the equation. 269 270