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t MINUTES <br />z ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />3 AND <br />4 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />5 ' May 29, 2001 <br />~ The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board met on <br />s Tuesday, May 29, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North <br />9 Carolina. <br />to <br />t t COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners <br />12 Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M: Gordon, and Bany Jacobs <br />t3 PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT; Chair Nicole Gooding-Ray and members <br />14 Crauford Goodwin, Howard McAdams, Rachel Preston, Hunter Schofield, Bob Strayhorn, <br />t s Theodore W. Triebel and Runyon Waods <br />t6 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director Craig <br />t 8 Benedict and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (all other staff members will be identified <br />t9 appropriately below) <br />20 <br />2l NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />Z2 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />23 <br />24 A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br />2s Chair Halkiotis outlined the agenda for the meeting. <br />26 <br />27 B. PUBLIC CHARGE . <br />zs ~ Chair Halkiotis read the public charge. <br />29 <br />3o C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS (County Commissioners Only) <br />31 1. Pro osed Amendments to Ordinance Prohibiting the Keeping of Animals <br />3z Dangerous to persons and Pro a within Orange Coun <br />33 Health Director Rosemary Summers made the presentation. In the summer of <br />34 2000, the Committee on Animal and Human Safety appeared before the Board with a <br />35 request for the County Commissioners to consider an ordinance that would ban the display <br />36 of exotic animals. This request was referred to the Board of Health. The Board of Health's <br />37 Animal Control environmental Health Committee took up that issue on August 16, 2000 <br />3s and met several times to consider the ordinance. The committee noted that the 1993 <br />39 ordinance to prohibit the keeping of wild and dangerous animals had not been amended. <br />4o The committee proposed amendments to the ordinance that do not change the substance <br />4t of the ordinance. The physical enclosure restrictions have been eliminated to make it <br />4z much clearer that the intent of the ordinance is to prohibit the keeping of wild and <br />43 danglerous animals. There are presently no known wild or dangerous animals being kept <br />as in the County. This ordinance only applies to the unincorporated areas of the County. <br />4s Commissioner Brawn asked a clarifying question about the difference between <br />a6 this item and the next item. The first ordinance is prohibiting the keeping of wild animals <br />a~ dangerous to persons and property and the second ordinance is prohibiting the display of <br />4s wild and exotic animals. <br />49 Commissioner Jacobs asked about the new abstract and Rosemary Summers <br />so said that she and the County Attorney reviewed the language of the document and did not <br />st change anything in the intent, but only cleaned up some of the language. <br />