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Approved 2/4/15 4 Bonnie Hauser: If I go to Mebane or another community versus Orange County what is the time table to get 162 something approved in another place versus Orange County? 163 164 Steve Brantley: I think Mebane approved Morinaga within 60 to 90 days and had Mebane not annexed Morinaga, it 165 still could have gone on here but it would have taken them longer to go through the process which in Orange County 166 would have been…. 167 168 Craig Benedict: What Steve mentioned was pre-zoning where zoning has certain uses permitted by right which 169 means review can be a staff function and if it was a staff function we would match the same time frame that Mebane 170 would have. If they have to go through a rezoning process where they have to change or up zone it from the base 171 zoning that is probably 4 to 5 months of process and a developer may not want to go through the site plan process 172 concurrent with this legislative rezoning process. 173 174 175 AGENDA ITEM 8: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENT: To continue discussion and 176 provide input on government-initiated amendments to the text of the UDO to change the 177 existing public hearing for Comprehensive Plan, UDO, and Zoning Atlas related items/ 178 amendments. This item was heard at the September 8, 2014 quarterly public hearing and was 179 discussed at the October 8 and November 5 Planning Board meetings. 180 Presenter: Perdita Holts, Special Projects Coordinator 181 182 Perdita Holtz reviewed abstract 183 184 Paul Guthrie: I think the flowchart pretty much portrays the conversation, I am still concerned about how some of this 185 will work. We may not find that out until we do it. 186 187 Pete Hallenbeck: I read the minutes and this certainly seems to align with it. The problem is that at the quarterly 188 public hearing the commissioners went in all different directions of opinions and at some point we have to just let 189 them decide. The other problem is the concept that some people only want to deal with the decision makers so no 190 matter what process you put in place some people will want to just wait and talk with the commissioners. We will at 191 least have a system where people can come to the Planning Board and express their concerns early; we can only do 192 as good as the feedback we get from people. 193 194 Lydia Wegman: How do you reconcile that with you hearing that the County Commissioners want the Planning 195 Board to attend the quarterly meetings? 196 197 Pete Hallenbeck: That’s a decision they have to make. My interpretation of that is because it is currently a joint 198 meeting and if the rules change on that then they’ll have to give us guidance. 199 200 Lydia Wegman: Then what is the point of the Planning Board? How significant has this quorum problem been? 201 202 Pete Hallenbeck: We’ve had two events in the last year of so where the meeting was held up and one 3 or so years 203 ago there was over a 30 minute hold up. 204 205 Lydia Wegman: Isn’t it a simpler solution to make sure the Planning Board members know they are expected to 206 attend rather than change the whole process. 207 208 Perdita Holtz: It depends a lot on who is on the Planning Board and what commitment they have. Some people had 209 jobs where they had to travel a lot and that Monday night meeting was difficult for them. It varies depending on who 210 is on the Planning Board. 211 212 Pete Hallenbeck: I think the fact that we’ve had two problems in the last year or so and we made it clear and it 213 happened again so I don’t know what more could be done. 214 215