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Approved 12/3/14 <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 13 MEMBERS ABSENT: Peter Hallenbeck (Chair), Cheeks Township Representative; Herman Staats, At-Large, Cedar 14 <br />Grove Township; 15 <br /> 16 <br /> 17 <br />STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor, Perdita Holtz, 18 <br />Special Projects Coordinator, Tina Love, Administrative Assistant II 19 <br /> 20 <br /> 21 OTHERS PRESENT: Bonnie Hammersley, County Manager; James Bryan, Staff Attorney; 22 <br /> 23 <br /> 24 <br />AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 25 <br /> 26 27 AGENDA ITEM 2: INFORMATIONAL ITEMS 28 <br />a) Planning Calendar for October and November 29 <br />b) Dinner meeting with BOCC & quarterly public hearing on November 24, 2014 has been 30 <br />cancelled 31 <br />c) Chapel Hill ETJ Expansion Request 32 <br /> 33 <br />Craig Benedict gave an overview of the ETJ expansion request. Subject area JPA vs ETJ land use regulations and 34 <br />financial investment representation future long term planning. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Craig Benedict: There is an area of the Joint Planning Area of Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the 37 <br />transition area. In order to fund certain infrastructure improvements, Chapel Hill would be able to contribute more if 38 <br />it was part of their ETJ. That request will be going to the BOCC on November 18. 39 <br /> 40 <br />Lisa Stuckey: I was on a committee that worked to get the sidewalks in with DOT and there were 3 jurisdictions, 41 <br />Chapel Hill, County and Carrboro as I recall and it was a mess. To me this seems to simplify things. 42 <br /> 43 <br />Tony Blake: This goes from the town operation center all the way south. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Craig Benedict: This is about a 1,000 acre area and would include the whole section of the Joint Planning area that 46 <br />is north and west of Chapel Hill. 47 <br /> 48 <br />Tony Blake: Do those residents have a say in this? 49 <br /> 50 <br />Craig Benedict: There is a public notice requirement that the City has put out and they have come forward and said 51 <br />they are in agreement with this proposal. 52 <br /> 53