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I SUMMARY NOTES <br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> 3 MARCH 3,2021 <br /> 4 ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE <br /> 5 <br /> 6 <br /> 7 NOTE: A QUORUM IS NOT REQUIRED FOR ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETINGS. <br /> 8 <br /> 9 Due to current public health concerns, the ORC meeting was virtual. Members of the Planning Board and <br /> 10 staff participated in the meeting remotely. <br /> 11 <br /> 12 David Blankfard (Chair), Hillsborough Township Representative;Adam Beeman (Vice-Chair), Cedar Grove Township <br /> 13 Representative; Kim Piracci, Eno Township Representative; Susan Hunter, Chapel Hill Township Representative; <br /> 14 Patricia Roberts, Cheeks Township Representative; Randy Marshall, At-Large Representative;Alexandra Allman,At- <br /> 15 Large Representative; Melissa Poole, Little River Township Representative; Carrie Fletcher, Bingham Township <br /> 16 Representative;Whitney Watson,At-Large Representative; Charity Kirk,At-Large Representative <br /> 17 <br /> 18 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Perdita Holtz, Planning Systems Coordinator; Michael Harvey, <br /> 19 Current Planning Supervisor;Tina Love,Administrative Support <br /> 20 <br /> 21 OTHERS PRESENT: Lamar Proctor <br /> 22 <br /> 23 AGENDA ITEM 1: Call to Order <br /> 24 <br /> 25 AGENDA ITEM 2: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE(UDO)TEXT AMENDMENTS—111601)"LEGISLATION-To review <br /> 26 LIDO text amendments related to State legislation that is referred to as 160D(a reference to the statute section). The <br /> 27 amendments also require changes to Appendix F of the Comprehensive Plan and to the Planning Board and Board <br /> 28 of Adjustment Rules of Procedure. A general overview of this item was also given at the September 2, 2020 ORC <br /> 29 meeting. <br /> 30 <br /> 31 PRESENTER: Perdita Holtz, Planning Systems Coordinator <br /> 32 <br /> 33 Perdita Holtz moved Lamar Proctor onto the meeting screen so he could participate and ask questions since he will <br /> 34 be an official Planning Board member as of April 1. The Planning Board is scheduled to make its recommendation <br /> 35 on the amendments at the April 7 meeting. <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Perdita Holtz reviewed the limited number of revisions that modify current practices used by Orange County along <br /> 38 with impacts and provided background information. <br /> 39 <br /> 40 Craig Benedict informed the Planning Board that the County Attorney would be making a recommendation to the <br /> 41 Board of County Commissioners about the amendments and has been working closely with Perdita to make the <br /> 42 recommendations provided to the Planning Board. <br /> 43 <br /> 44 Randy Marshall: Can we continue to have the legal ads run in the newspapers. <br /> 45 <br /> 46 Perdita: We are still recommending it be done for legislative items but staff is recommending that it be ended for the <br /> 47 quasi-judicial Special Use Permit(SUP)and the reason is because it is notifying everybody that this is happening <br /> 48 and yet legally only abutting property owners have legal standing to participate in the hearing. It doesn't make sense <br /> 49 to notify everyone and have them think they can participate when in actuality they can't. Also,the Class A SUPs <br /> 50 uses are being changed to Conditional Districts. They will still be decided by the BOCC with Planning Board <br /> 51 recommendation. <br /> 52 <br /> 53 Perdita Holtz continued the presentation <br /> 54 <br />