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D R A F T 54 AGENDA ITEM 5: PUBLIC CHARGE55 56 INTRODUCTION TO THE PUBLIC CHARGE57 The Board of County Commissioners, under the authority of North Carolina General Statute,58 appoints the Orange County Planning Board (OCPB) to uphold the written land development law of 59 the County. The general purpose of OCPB is to guide and accomplish coordinated and 60 harmonious development. OCPB shall do so in a manner, which considers the present and future 61 needs of its citizens and businesses through efficient and responsive process that contributes to62 and promotes the health, safety, and welfare of the overall County. The OCPB will make every 63 effort to uphold a vision of responsive governance and quality public services during our 64 deliberations, decisions, and recommendations.65 66 PUBLIC CHARGE67 The Planning Board pledges to the citizens of Orange County its respect. The Board asks its 68 citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with 69 fellow citizens. At any time, should any member of the Board or any citizen fail to observe this 70 public charge, the Chair will ask the offending member to leave the meeting until that individual 71 regains personal control. Should decorum fail to be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting 72 until such time that a genuine commitment to this public charge is observed.73 74 75 AGENDA ITEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS76 77 There were none78 79 80 AGENDA ITEM 7: PLANNING BOARD ANNUAL REPORT AND WORK PLAN -To discuss the annual input form which informs 81 the BOCC of the past year’s activities of advisory boards/commissions and assists in overall County work planning.82 83 PRESENTER:Perdita Holtz, Planning Systems Supervisor84 85 Perdita Holtz reviewed the work plan, current year activities, and emerging issues.86 87 Craig Benedict: In this year’s budget we put $15,000 to assist with the City of Mebane to do a growth strategy in 88 around these economic development zones that are primarily on the outskirts of Mebane. We are working on a 89 request for proposal from the Triad Council of Governments and we’ll probably look for a person or two from this 90 group to be part of our community outreach when we move along a bit further. We need to coordinate with Mebane 91 and a consultant.92 93 Lydia Wegman: How does that fit in with the analysis and revisions to the economic development districts?94 95 Craig Benedict: Presently under our map now we have economic development land use and the County has gone 96 ahead and changed the zoning in that area to that economic development zone. In the commercial/industrial activity 97 transition nodes (CITAN) they change the land use for commercial industrial but they didn’t go forward with rezoning 98 the land. They left it in residential which can be problematic – there probably will be pre-zoning to move forward with 99 preparing them with some designation. 100 101 Perdita Holtz: Going back to emerging issues, from last year still is climate change as an emerging issue and the 102 energy emerging issue which has a lot to do with solar arrays.103 104 Lydia Wegman: Has anything actually happened with that.105 106 7