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D R A F T 768 Jessica Aguilar: That’s the question of meeting standards versus best practice.769 770 David Blankfard: I don’t think this Board can dictate everyone going above and beyond what is stated in the code 771 that’s already been voted for and approved by multiple agencies. 772 773 Jessica Aguilar: I understand that the project is going to happen. I think that maybe it would be possible for some 774 sort of conversation for the developers to be somehow aimable in accommodating to the current residents as a show 775 of good faith and show of appreciation for changing the nature of their day. You can say it’s just a new gated776 community but that’s going to change the nature of the school. Sixty new kids in the school system is going to 777 change the tone of their schools. Especially if 60 new kids are from $300,000 homes going to school with kids who 778 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 779 community. It’s something that needs to be thought of.780 781 David Blankfard: Thank you for the comment. There’s nothing else I can say about that. 782 783 MOTION by Randy Marshall to recommend approval that the Fairway Hills development go to the County 784 Commissioners as a major subdivision preliminary plot application proposing a 20-lot single family residential 785 subdivision in the Eno Township of the County in accordance with the provision to Section 2.15 In Article 7 786 subdivisions of the Unified Development Ordinance. Adam Beeman seconded.787 VOTE:Passed (7-3) (Spitzer, Piracci, Aguilar) 788 789 Craig Benedict: Before we adjourn, regarding the topics addressed, we can bring material to you that’s independent 790 of a project and if we have the opportunity for new and old members to explain some of the science behind these 791 issues. We went through an orientation tonight about the background and planning. The topics of what you can 792 issues are permitted by right, what regulations we have, and can you exceed them or not. Those are all topics that 793 we need to get to so that everybody understand how a development process is reviewed. As was suggested tonight,794 if the Board as an idea to raise a standard up, they can vote to have us bring something forward to the 795 Commissioners. We might forward it to another advisory board. If we get authorization from the Board to move 796 forward with this that’s what we do. Once those standards are established, that’s what we hold the development 797 community to and then we move forward on known information with clarity. 798 799 Hathaway Pendergrass: That first I had, I said the word abstain I meant to say recuse just because of the potential 800 conflict that I would have. That’s why I didn’t vote. 801 802 Michael Harvey: Those with an interest in having a motion made to ask the County Commissioners to direct to staff to 803 initiate a comprehensive discussion of the existing stormwater standards. 804 805 Kim Piracci: I feel like the staff like Brennen Bouma, I would like to see these people involved in this. 806 807 Michael Harvey: That’s up to the County Commissioners to decide. 808 809 David Blankfard: Do we have a recommendation to send that to the Board of the County Commissioners? 810 811 Kim Piracci: I don’t know. I just feel like the Planning Board has a different agenda than an environmental board. 812 813 MOTION by Hunter Spitzer to request the Board of Orange County Commissioners to commission a study within the 814 planning department to review the existing stormwater standards. Hathaway Pendergrass seconded.815 816 Craig Benedict: I mean the Board would have to have consensus to at least make that suggestion. What we’ll do if 817 the Board does so vote on that to move it forward you can have us in advance of that provide where those standards 818 come from, what other standards are just so you have an idea of the context of where the standard came from and 819 then if you decide to move forward you can still do that. We’ll bring in the experts and things like that, so everybody 820 has the context of where existing standards came from. 821 822 19