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Approved 3/4/15 4 Lisa Stuckey: Yeah, but maybe they don’t want to pay the taxes. If bringing the services in means higher taxes, I’m 162 not sure that’s what they would want. 163 164 Tony Blake: For example in the Mount Carmel area, would the town extend the water and sewer if they didn’t plan to 165 annex it and people who bought there must have known this, that annexation intent, and that’s where it’s gotten 166 fuzzy. 167 168 Craig Benedict: I think it leaves some problems for later, the whole fire district tax and who is going to service. It 169 does leave some lingering problems. 170 171 Paul Guthrie: As a resident in that neighborhood, I can tell you that’s a much more complicated topic. There were 172 false cost figures and the town manager of Chapel Hill’s estimated cost to the town for annexing the area, was way 173 below what the tax rate was supposed to be and the insurance companies had failed to recognize the fact there were 174 fire plugs in the neighborhood and took almost half the tax so there were a lot of other issues going on. 175 176 Tony Blake: All I’m saying is that without a timeline, some sort of use it or lose it piece, it leaves that sort of question 177 festering and you end up with this sort of situation. 178 179 Lisa Stuckey: On page 19, under Planning Board review, number 2, it says there will be a notification in a 180 newspaper. I worry a little that people might not see a notice in the paper. Most of the time I think the County 181 advertises in the News of Orange which no one in Chapel Hill ever reads, I mean no one, and the other one is the 182 Durham Herald which almost no one reads as well. I guess my other question is do people pay attention to the those 183 sufficiently. To have it really be effective notice. 184 185 Craig Benedict: I guess acknowledging that there might be a more elaborate way, besides the newspapers, the 186 Commissioners might say to mail it. I’ve noted it and I’ll let the Commissioners know that if they want this stuff to be 187 vetted at this level that a mail notice is probably more thorough. There’s later public hearings too. 188 189 Maxecine Mitchell: If you put signs up that’s better than the newspaper. 190 191 Pete Hallenbeck: The County needs to explore new ways to get the word out to everybody realizing how people get 192 their information today. 193 194 Lydia Wegman: Craig the point is to raise the issue. What level of involvement they want the Planning Board to 195 have. 196 197 Michael Harvey: One thing to remember, this is just a process to get to the state-required process, this is sort of an 198 initial scoping session. You can start the formal process to extend the ETJ and it still may be denied regardless of 199 what happens in this process. You are going to have multiple points of notification that has to occur. 200 201 202 AGENDA ITEM 9 UPDATE ON PROPOSED EFLAND ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICTS: To receive an update on the 203 proposed Efland zoning overlay districts (heard at the February 24, 2014 quarterly public 204 hearing). This item will likely be on the March 4th Planning Board agenda for a 205 recommendation to the BOCC. 206 Presenter: Perdita Holts, Special Projects Coordinator 207 208 Perdita Holtz updated the Planning Board on the progress of the Efland zoning overlay district and the meeting held. 209 210 Lydia Wegman: These suggestions of the residents, are these changes that you are going to make in what you bring 211 to us next month? 212 213 Perdita Holtz: Yes, staff doesn’t have concerns. 214 215