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SUMMARY NOTES 1 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 2 JUNE 6, 2018 3 ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE 4 5 NOTE: A QUORUM IS NOT REQUIRED FOR ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETINGS. 6 7 MEMBERS PRESENT: Randy Marshall (Vice-Chair), Bingham Township Representative; Kim Piracci, At-Large; Randy 8 Marshall, At-Large; David Blankfard, Hillsborough Township Representative; Alexander Gregory, Chapel Hill 9 Township Representative; David Blankfard, Hillsborough Township Representative; Adam Beeman, Cedar Grove 10 Township Representative; Carrie Fletcher, Bingham Township Representative; Lydia Wegman (Chair), At-Large 11 Chapel Hill Township Representative; Patricia Roberts, Cheeks Township Representative; Paul Guthrie, At-Large 12 Chapel Hill Township; Buddy Hartley, Little River Township Representative; 13 14 MEMBERS ABSENT: Laura Nicholson, Eno Township Representative; Hunter Spitzer, At-Large; 15 16 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Meredith Kern, 17 Administrative Assistant II 18 19 AGENDA ITEM 1: Call to Order and Roll Call 20 The meeting began immediately after the Planning Board meeting was adjourned. 21 22 AGENDA ITEM 2: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENTS – IMPERVIOUS SURFACE 23 STANDARDS - To review proposed amendments to the UDO that clarify existing regulations related to the 24 enforcement of impervious surface standards on subdivisions platted and developed before January 1,1994, and 25 modify existing standards governing the transfer of impervious surface area between parcels located within the same 26 watershed protection overlay district. 27 PRESENTER: Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor 28 29 Michael Harvey reviewed that while county-wide impervious surface standards were established in 1994, such 30 standards had existed for University Lake since the 1970s. He noted that county regulations are, in many cases, 31 more stringent than state standards. The county has spent $80,000 and a 12-week intensive period with 20-hour 32 weekends conducting inspections of streams in the county to prepare to go before the state to argue that the state 33 should not prevent counties from regulating stream buffers to higher standards than the state’s. Orange County was 34 one of four counties that did so. 35 36 Michael Harvey said Orange County requires subdivision property owners to count the roads as part of the property’s 37 impervious surface. For example, for a 100-acre tract of land allowed to have 500,000 square feet of impervious 38 surface, if there is 200,000 square feet of road, then there is 300,000 square feet left that can be impervious surface. 39 That is done to avoid one lot in that subdivided tract of land being overburdened with impervious surface area that is 40 meant to serve the communities. Before 1994, that wasn’t the case. The policy was enacted in 1999 with some 41 suggestions of following the policy between 1994 and 1999. 42 43 Michael Harvey continued to explain that there are subdivision projects that in some cases have corner lots where 44 the total impervious surface counts on that property. Over time, if the roadway is expanded, the total impervious 45 surface allowed on the lot shrinks. Also, the overlay districts for the watersheds can change. While there are 46 provisions in the UDO to address that change, there are still older subdivisions from the 1970s through the 1990s 47 where impervious surface was not really thought about. 48 49 6