Planning Board - 110420 Agenda Packet

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D R A F T 57 Craig Benedict: I’ll give you a briefing on that after the topic of the night. 58 59 60 Gio Mollinedo arrived 61 62 63 AGENDA ITEM 5: PUBLIC CHARGE 64 65 INTRODUCTION TO THE PUBLIC CHARGE 66 The Board of County Commissioners, under the authority of North Carolina General Statute, appoints 67 the Orange County Planning Board (OCPB) to uphold the written land development law of the County. 68 The general purpose of OCPB is to guide and accomplish coordinated and harmonious development. 69 OCPB shall do so in a manner, which considers the present and future needs of its citizens and 70 businesses through efficient and responsive process that contributes to and promotes the health, safety, 71 and welfare of the overall County. The OCPB will make every effort to uphold a vision of responsive 72 governance and quality public services during our deliberations, decisions, and recommendations. 73 74 PUBLIC CHARGE 75 The Planning Board pledges to the citizens of Orange County its respect. The Board asks its citizens to 76 conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with fellow citizens. At 77 any time, should any member of the Board or any citizen fail to observe this public charge, the Chair will 78 ask the offending member to leave the meeting until that individual regains personal control. Should 79 decorum fail to be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine commitment 80 to this public charge is observed. 81 82 83 AGENDA ITEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS 84 85 86 AGENDA ITEM 7: PLANNING BOARD PROCEDURAL ISSUES – To discuss issues raised by Planning Board members during the 87 training session on September 2. Specifically, the ideas of concluding Planning Board meeting by a 88 certain time and placing limits on the amount of time spent on repetitive public comments were raised. 89 Presenter: Perdita Holtz 90 91 Perdita Holtz: At the September 2nd meeting there was some discussion about the length of the meetings the Planning 92 Board has been experiencing and also the length of public comments. We brought this back for the Planning Board to 93 discuss tonight. If they want to suggest any modifications to the way things operate, I did consult with County’s legal staff 94 regarding these issues and on your abstract you can see there are 3 bullets on length of meetings and options on what 95 you could consider. Also, for public comment, there is some information there and 2 potential options you might want to 96 consider depending on the outcome of your discussion tonight. The recommendation is that you receive the information in 97 the abstract and discuss those topics and if necessary, provide direction to the staff on any next steps. 98 99 Kim Piracci: To me it makes the most sense to either limit the meeting length at the beginning of the meeting or once it 100 gets late someone can make a motion to end the meeting. It seems if we change the rules to make it official to never go 101 beyond a certain time, it seems rigid to me. It wouldn’t include alternatives. If we say we always end at 10 p.m. but we’re 102 almost done… I think it’s fine the way it is as long as we all know that ending the meeting and having it go on is an 103 alternative. 104 105 David Blankfard: I got hung up that at the continued the meeting, we allowed the same people to speak that had spoken 106 at the 1st meeting. I think that needs to be limited to only those who didn’t, I think it’s very important for the public to voice 107 concerns on any topic but you only get to say it once. 108 109 Adam Beeman: And we did the 1st agenda item that had nothing to do with the public comments being heard and then it 110 went on and on about stuff that had nothing to do with the agenda item before them. We should have voted on that item 111 and then moved on the item they really wanted to address. Based on all the comments the public feels like there is no 112 8