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D R A F T Craig Benedict: We have noticed that cities have the ability to ask to clean up areas that become eyesores. Counties do 280 not have that ability. We’re going to take a look at 160D which takes Counties and Cities makes them more similar. This 281 something that Michael Harvey and I will take a look at and it would be implemented, if possible, in areas that are intended 282 to have urban or city-like activities. 283 284 Carrie Fletcher: I live out in the country and you talk about a nuisance ordinance, trailer parks and old cars and letting 285 properties fall apart is always an issue. I’m not against farmers not being able to keep up with property but still there are a 286 lot of people that don’t want to have the neighbor that has 20 or 30 cars. Are you saying this won’t come out to rural 287 Orange County? 288 289 Craig Benedict: We do have certain ordinances about cars, junk cars. There is an ordinance about that. This is more like 290 if the grass is too long or the storage of material becomes what is known as an eyesore. There could be some standards 291 that go to the rural areas but we have to be cautious with that for enforcement reasons. 292 293 Perdita Holtz: Just to be clear that 160D has to do with zoning, it does not have anything to do with the nuisance 294 ordinances. Nuisance ordinances are not going to be something that a county can necessarily do outright under 160D. 295 On the last two pages of the agenda materials, there are detailed explanations on these emerging issues and also the 296 work plan. This is just a list on the PowerPoint, the more detailed list is in the packet. 297 298 Carrie Fletcher: On the climate change issue, the collaboration between the Commission for the Environment (CFE) and 299 our Planning Board; I would love to see furtherance of those two agencies getting together. I think it could be a lot less 300 disagreement because there are a lot of people on CFE that would like a lot of things furthered in Orange County but I also 301 understand the roles of the commission and of the Planning Board. The Planning Board has a very specific role and I 302 understand the distinction between the two. Maybe if there were more understanding and cohesion between the two it 303 would be something to entertain going forward. 304 305 Craig Benedict: We’ll make note of that. 306 307 Kim Piracci: I would like to speak out in favor of the nuisance ordinance even though I have eight plus acres out here in 308 the county and I don’t really want people telling me what I can do with it. However, there is a house down the road that 309 basically, uses their yard as a dump and it looks like a dump and it smells like a dump and there is not really anything that 310 can be done about it. While they have the freedom to use their place as a dump, it is affecting my property value. 311 312 Craig Benedict: It’s an energized topic, it’s a tricky issue especially for counties that have such a wide range of activities. 313 We’ll keep it on the list. 314 315 Perdita Holtz: David, you mentioned something about post-COVID, it sounded like it was something about evaluating 316 changes that emerge post-COVID and respond appropriately. 317 318 David Blankfard: Right, based on changing how offices work, how people gather. 319 320 Randy Marshall: I’ll second that. 321 322 Perdita Holtz: We probably need to get buy-in from the Planning Board on that and on Carrie’s request to work jointly with 323 the CFE on climate change issues. 324 325 Carrie Fletcher: To clarify, it wouldn’t be just for climate change issues it would be for collaborative issues regarding any 326 kind of expansion within the County itself. Maybe some kind of collaborative interaction that we could have that would find 327 out about watershed issues that maybe someone more educated in that matter would be good to know prior to voting on 328 things like this. That’s where I was headed with it. 329 330 Craig Benedict: We could add it to the list. To talk about collaborative relationships with particular boards. We think there 331 is a need for that. We will move this topic about collaboration with other advisory boards as one of our applied topics. 332 333 David Blankfard: Can you put down, for example, the board that Carrie is referring, Commission for the Environment. 334 335 12