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2 Michael Harvey: The neighborhood meeting is just to present that here is the process, here’s the procedure. You 54 as an adjacent property owner could meet with the applicant and discuss your concerns. 55 56 Paul Guthrie: What I am getting at is that are you just going to listen to the comments or at some point will the chair 57 say, now thank you very much but in this proceeding there needs to be documentation that is sufficient to be 58 entered into the record. 59 60 Craig Benedict: We will not be ruling on what they are talking about, we won’t be making any ruling there. We’re 61 just going to say, here’s an example of evidence and here’s an example of what evidence is not. 62 63 Michael Harvey: We’re going to be providing what represents competent materials and substantial evidence but 64 we’re not going to be telling people... 65 66 Paul Guthrie: What I’m thinking is maybe that ought to be the introduction for a statement in the call of the meeting 67 something to this effect so that people have, so you don’t end up having to be the bad guy sometime down the 68 road. 69 70 Lisa Stuckey: It’s an informational meeting, right and the County Commissioner are the judges ultimately? 71 72 Michael Harvey: Yes, the neighborhood meeting is just informational. It is just for us to explain process and the 73 applicant to outline the project. 74 75 Pete Hallenbeck: My read on this is there are a number of things going on. One is getting people familiar with 76 process and terminology so we aren’t discovering it at the quarterly public hearing. One is certainly meeting some 77 of the players and another one, hopefully, that everyone can sit down. 78 79 Michael Harvey: Just as a reminder, we currently hold neighborhood information meetings for all major 80 subdivisions at the concept plan stage before the Planning Board sees it. We hold neighborhood meetings now for 81 any government project. It has to be held typically by the applicant with coordination with staff before an application 82 is acted upon by staff. This is just adding that same process and procedure to this particular permitting. 83 84 Lisa Stuckey: This will add 30 days, how often do you think it is helpful to have a neighborhood meeting and how 85 often does it happen that nobody shows up and it just is going to add 30 days? 86 87 Michael Harvey: I think there are projects where we will get raked over the coals and projects that are no-brainers. 88 It is 50/50. It probably benefits the Board of Adjustment more than the elected officials but 50% of the time it would 89 probably save the Board of Adjustment several hours. It is going to add time, it depends on what happens at the 90 neighborhood meetings. Our goal is to try to incorporate the meeting within the existing timeframe and a lot of it is 91 not going to be reasonable or realistic. It adds another layer of complexity to the process. 92 93 94 AGENDA ITEM 3: ADJOURNMENT 95 96 Meeting was adjourned 97 98 99 100 ___________________________________________ Pete Hallenbeck, Chair