Planning Board - 020520 Agenda Packet

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and promotes the health, safety, and welfare of the overall County. T he OCPB will make every 55 effort to uphold a vision of responsivegovernance and quality public services during our 56 deliberations, decisions, and recommendations.57 58 PUBLIC CHARGE59 The Planning Board pledges to the citizens of Orange County its respect. The Board asks its 60 citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with 61 fellow citizens. At any time, should any member of the Board or any citizen fail to observe this 62 public charge, the Chair will ask the offending member to leave the meeting until that individual 63 regains personal control. Should decorum fail to be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting 64 until such time that a genuine commitment to this public charge is observed.65 66 67 AGENDA I TEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS68 69 There were none70 71 72 AGENDA I TEM 7: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO)TEXT AMENDMENT –EROSION CONTROL PERMITS -To 73 make a recommendation to the BOCC on proposed amendments to the UDO pertaining to the lifespan of an erosion 74 control permit. These amendments are scheduled for BOCC public hearing on January 21, 2020.75 76 PRESENTER:Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor77 78 Michael Harvey reviewed the abstract and proposed changes to theUDO. 79 80 Craig Benedict: I’ve asked Michaelis to have the fee structure related to the hours of service, before it wasn’t a 81 direct relation. Now that the projects are done to a certain level and they pick up 20% of the project that is left 82 (Collins Ridge) the amount of the fee and the amount of hours staff m onitors that project will be closely reflected.83 84 Lydia Wegman: Is the fee linked to the amount of land disturbance that occurs?85 86 Craig Benedict: Yes it is.87 88 Michael Harvey: It will be, not yet.89 90 Craig Benedict: This handles one of the matters, permit renewal, there will be another activity which Michael and I 91 are coming to terms with that will probably be in the next few months. It will be about howthe initialfees are 92 calculated. 93 94 Lydia Wegman: So the fee structure is likely to change?95 96 Craig Benedict: Yes.97 98 Michael Harvey continued the review99 100 Michael Harvey: It is hard to ask a homeowner to give us electronic copies when they may not have the wherewithal 101 to do it, it is easy for an engineering firm to give us an electronic copy but not a homeowner. We are trying to provide 102 some level of flexibility and my staff wants to look at physical plans so they can make their note on them. We do 103 scan approved plans so they are always available electronically. We are trying to get to the electronic age. There 104 was at one point, draft text amendments from the Attorney’s Office that wanted to turn this into a totally electronic 105 submittal process. That may come up again. Therewere concerns to the ability of some to submit.106 107 Lydia Wegman: This does require an electronic copy.108 7