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Approved 5.5.21 113 parcels or greater that you can do that with the newspaper. I guess the legislature thinks that people still get newspapers. 114 1 was wondering in terms of informational purposes whether we put that kind of stuff on the website. 115 116 Perdita Holtz: The Planning Department has a section on the website called Current Interest Projects where we put 117 projects that are currently being considered, not only for rezonings but also for Special Use Permits and things like Major 118 Subdivisions. When the notification letters go out, information is included in the letters on accessing the website to learn 119 more. Sometimes depending on the scope of the project, things go out in the weekly email that our Public Information 120 Officer does or depending on the scope of the project, he might also post something on Facebook. 121 122 Lamar Proctor: In terms of the days of notice, it's not more than 25 days and not less than 10. My concern is why can't 123 we just do 25? I've seen several examples of a 10 day notice for letters or whatever it is, it gets mailed on a Friday, postal 124 service has issues, people get it on a Thursday and then it references a meeting on a Monday or Tuesday. If they take a 125 long weekend then it's sorry, they don't know. I've seen examples in our community where people find out about things in 126 passing amongst neighbors and interested parties by a hair's breadth. So was there any talk or consideration of making it 127 the maximum that you are allowed, 25 days, to give people proper notice. 128 129 Perdita Holtz: We do almost always send out notices well in advance of 10 days. I think the County Attorney's office would 130 have a concern about saying we will do 25 days because statutes allow you to do 10 and they feel that our UDO should 131 conform to the language in the statutes. I also want to point out that Orange County sends out notices for the Planning 132 Board meeting which is not required by statutes,we send out meetings to property owners within 1000 feet of a parcel and 133 statutes require only abutting property owners be notified so Orange County already goes far beyond what statutes require 134 for notice. There would also be concerns about saying we are going to do 25 when we normally send them out about 15 135 days in advance because of the way our cycles work. There might be instances where an applicant is still trying to get 136 some things worked out and to hold up the notice because they were a day late from 25 days, as you suggest,would add 137 another month to the process. 138 139 Lamar Proctor: Personally, I'm looking at this as a community member, I would love to see it be at least 15 days. I think 140 the general language is notice shall be posted or mailed a minimum of 10 days prior. It's kind of permissive language, 141 meaning you can do it more. There were other notices,weren't there for 15 days? 142 143 Perdita Holtz: Yes, you can do it more than 10 days but it can't be more than 25 days in advance. Yes, I believe there 144 was one either for the Comp Plan or SUPs that required 15 days. We are now standardizing it all to be in conformance 145 with State statutes. 146 147 Lamar Proctor: I understand the conformity and I think the uniformity within our own UDO is to notice so you don't have to 148 say, it's 15 for this and 17 for that, 12 for that. That's ridiculous. My position is that I would like the minimum to be greater 149 than 10 days because I think there are instances where people don't get proper notice because of the timing of things. 150 That's one thought I had. My other concern was the exclusions being removed on page 158, 1 don't understand the history 151 of those exclusions. When I read about a non-residential Conditional Use District that is really a blank slate,other than 152 some limitations within the Rural Buffer,that combined with removing exclusions, makes me think that there could be a 153 Conditional District approved for a crematorium in somebody's backyard or something that clearly fell within the exclusions 154 previously and is now going to be game on for anything, anywhere other than what's specifically excluded in the NR-CD 155 list. 156 157 Perdita Holtz: I understand the concern but there's also another piece to the puzzle which is Appendix F of the 158 Comprehensive Plan that shows which land use classifications that NR-CD can be applied to. That is found on the very 159 last page of the amendment packet, page 348. NR-CD would be allowed for consideration in all of the land use 160 classifications because currently the Conditional Use District also is allowed for consideration in all those classifications. 1 161 understand that it is correct that you could now apply for these uses where previously,you could not. When Conditional 162 Use Districts were set up, at least in the'90s if not earlier,the people who set them up said we don't want these uses to be 163 considered. 164 165 Lamar Proctor: When I read this and I think about worst-case scenario, I see a 10-day notice requirement for a zoning 166 change with an NR-CD or Conditional District that allows anything. Anything is on the table unless it's in the Rural Buffer. 167 If there are a few landowners that are abutting or its homeowners that aren't concentrated around a parcel,they miss it 168 and they are out of luck.