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102 <br /> Jessica Aguilar:That's the question of meeting standards versus best practice. <br /> David Blankfard: I don't think this Board can dictate everyone going above and beyond what is stated in the code <br /> that's already been voted for and approved by multiple agencies. <br /> Jessica Aguilar: I understand that the project is going to happen. I think that maybe it would be possible for some <br /> sort of conversation for the developers to be somehow aimable in accommodating to the current residents as a show <br /> of good faith and show of appreciation for changing the nature of their day. You can say it's just a new gated <br /> community but that's going to change the nature of the school. Sixty new kids in the school system is going to <br /> change the tone of their schools. Especially if 60 new kids are from$300,000 homes going to school with kids who <br /> are from$100,000 homes. That's a social divide and it's going to happen, and it's going to affect things in the <br /> community. It's something that needs to be thought of. <br /> David Blankfard:Thank you for the comment. There's nothing else I can say about that. <br /> MOTION by Randy Marshall to recommend approval that the Fairway Hills development go to the County <br /> Commissioners as a major subdivision preliminary plot application proposing a 20-lot single family residential <br /> subdivision in the Eno Township of the County in accordance with the provision to Section 2.15 In Article 7 <br /> subdivisions of the Unified Development Ordinance. Adam Beeman seconded. <br /> VOTE: Passed (7-3) (Spitzer, Piracci,Aguilar) <br /> Craig Benedict: Before we adjourn, regarding the topics addressed,we can bring material to you that's independent <br /> of a project and if we have the opportunity for new and old members to explain some of the science behind these <br /> issues. We went through an orientation tonight about the background and planning. The topics of what you can <br /> issues are permitted by right,what regulations we have, and can you exceed them or not. Those are all topics that <br /> we need to get to so that everybody understand how a development process is reviewed. As was suggested tonight, <br /> if the Board as an idea to raise a standard up,they can vote to have us bring something forward to the <br /> Commissioners. We might forward it to another advisory board. If we get authorization from the Board to move <br /> forward with this that's what we do. Once those standards are established,that's what we hold the development <br /> community to and then we move forward on known information with clarity. <br /> Hathaway Pendergrass:That first I had, I said the word abstain I meant to say recuse just because of the potential <br /> conflict that I would have. That's why I didn't vote. <br /> Michael Harvey: Those with an interest in having a motion made to ask the County Commissioners to direct to staff to <br /> initiate a comprehensive discussion of the existing stormwater standards. <br /> Kim Piracci: I feel like the staff like Brennen Bouma, I would like to see these people involved in this. <br /> Michael Harvey: That's up to the County Commissioners to decide. <br /> David Blankfard: Do we have a recommendation to send that to the Board of the County Commissioners? <br /> Kim Piracci: I don't know. I just feel like the Planning Board has a different agenda than an environmental board. <br /> MOTION by Hunter Spitzer to request the Board of Orange County Commissioners to commission a study within the <br /> planning department to review the existing stormwater standards. Hathaway Pendergrass seconded. <br /> Craig Benedict: I mean the Board would have to have consensus to at least make that suggestion. What we'll do if <br /> the Board does so vote on that to move it forward you can have us in advance of that provide where those standards <br /> come from,what other standards are just so you have an idea of the context of where the standard came from and <br /> then if you decide to move forward you can still do that. We'll bring in the experts and things like that, so everybody <br /> has the context of where existing standards came from. <br />