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(B) Interested persons may address the Planning Board at the Planning Board’s meeting and public comments may be taken into consideration by the Planning Board in making its recommendation. (C) The Planning Board’s action on an application shall be one of the following: (1) Make no recommendation, (2) Recommend approval, (3) Recommend denial, (4) Recommend approval but with specified changes, or (5) Make a preliminary recommendation, of either (1) through (4) above, with a request to the Board of County Commissioners that if significant new information is presented at the public hearing, the Board of County Commissioners refer an application back to the Planning Board for further review and a potential new recommendation. (a) The Board of County Commissioners is not bound to referring an application back to the Planning Board. 2.8.9 Action by Board of County Commissioners (A) The Board of County Commissioners shall not consider enactment of the a proposed amendment until the Planning Board either makes its recommendation or takes no action on the application as prescribed in Section 2.8.8(C). (B) In making its decision, the Board of Commissioners shall consider all relevant evidence presented at the public hearing and any submitted written evidence that was considered by the Planning Board in making its recommendation. (C) The Board of County Commissioners shall not consider enactment of a proposed amendment until after the required public hearing has been held. At the conclusion of the public hearing, the Board of County Commissioners may do one of the following: (1) Continue the public hearing to a date/time certain, (2) Close the public hearing and refer the application back to the Planning Board for further review, (3) Close the public hearing and defer a decision to a later Board of County Commissioners meeting date, or (4) Close the public hearing and make a decision. (D) In making its decision, the Board of Commissioners shall consider comments made at the public hearing, the Planning Board’s recommendation, and the Planning Director’s recommendation. (E) The Board of County Commissioners is not bound by comments and recommendations and may make a decision different from comments and/or recommendations it receives. 2.8.10 Text Revisions Pertaining to Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Provisions (A) The Erosion Control Officer shall review all of the North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission’s revisions to the State’s Model Soil Erosions and Sedimentation Control Ordinance and, within 90 days of receipt of the recommended revisions, submit draft amendments to the North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission for its consideration and comments. (B) Within 150 days after receipt of the North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission’s comments, Orange County shall formally consider proposed amendments and, to the extent deemed necessary by the Board of County Commissioners, incorporate the amendments into this Ordinance. 45