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Approved 2/5/14 1 SUMMARY NOTES 1 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 2 JANUARY 8, 2014 3 ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE 4 5 NOTE: A quorum is not required for Ordinance Review Committee meetings. 6 7 MEMBERS PRESENT: Peter Hallenbeck (Chair), Cheeks Township Representative; James Lea, Cedar Grove Township 8 Representative; Herman Staats, At-Large, Cedar Grove Township; Paul Guthrie, At-Large, Chapel Hill Township; Tony 9 Blake, Bingham Township Representative; Buddy Hartley, Little River Township Representative; Johnny Randall, At-Large 10 Chapel Hill Township; 11 12 13 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Perdita Holtz, Special 14 Projects Coordinator; Ashley Moncado, Special Projects Planner; Jennifer Leaf, Planner I; Tina Love, Administrative 15 Assistant II 16 17 18 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 19 20 21 AGENDA ITEM 2: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENTS – CHANGES TO THE PUBLIC HEARING 22 PROCESS 23 To continue review and comment upon proposed revisions to the UDO to change the existing public 24 hearing process and to amend other provisions that need to be changed if the public hearing process is 25 amended. 26 Presenter: Perdita Holtz, Special Projects Coordinator 27 28 Perdita Holtz: Reviewed abstract. 29 30 Pete Hallenbeck: I think the chart on page 11 is really good, it tells you what’s going on. I also like the idea of 31 discontinuing the joint BOCC/Planning Board meetings. It seems like the role of the Planning Board during these 32 meetings tends to be just to sit there and there are other opportunities for the Planning Board to voice its concern. 33 There is nothing to keep Planning Board members from attending the public hearing and I would not object if it was 34 decided that the Planning Board Chair was required to be at the public hearing or at least somebody from the 35 Planning Board. I do think it is good and important when you have citizen input to be able to hear it in addition to 36 just reading it. I think not having the joint meeting is good but I’d like to have a mechanism where someone from 37 the Planning Board is there so they can get more than the word. There are comments from both the 38 Commissioners and the public during the hearing and it would be good to have a member present to hear them. 39 40 Paul Guthrie: Basically, I think this is a good move for a couple of reason. One is the increased number of hearing 41 opportunities which I think can expedite a lot of the procedure and maybe take a little pressure off the planning staff 42 since it gets spread out. They don’t have to dump everything into four quarters. I do have a couple of questions. 43 One is what kind of communication summarizing the public hearing will be transmitted to the Planning Board so that 44 the Planning Board can intelligently consider the topic? 45 46 Perdita Holtz: It is unlikely that official quarterly public hearing minutes would be available quick enough for 47 Planning Board meetings. We are envisioning that the Planning Board meeting would occur within two to three 48 weeks after the public hearing and generally meeting minutes take longer than that for the Clerk’s office to turn 49 around. It would probably be, if the Planning Board was not going to view the meeting on the internet in the comfort 50 of your own home, similar to what happens now where comments that were made are in the amendment outline 51