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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May B, 2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Legal Advertisement for May 28, 2002 Quarterly Public Heading <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) NO <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): <br /> INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Proposed Legal Advertisement Craig Sunn ict, Planning Director.ext 2592 <br /> (The 11/14/01 SLUC recommended version Robert P, Davis Planner III ext 2580 <br /> ofthe MOU and Ordinance was distdbuted TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> on 2/16/02. Another copy will be distributed Hillsborough 7322181 <br /> with the May 26"agenda.) Chapel Hill 9NA501 <br /> Durham 6887331 <br /> Mebane 335J 74031 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive authorization to submit the Quarterly Public Hearing Legal <br /> Advertisement for publication of the May 28, 2002 meeting. <br /> BACKGROUND: The next regular quarterly public hearing is scheduled for May 28, 2002. <br /> A summary of the hem proposed for public heading is provided. Staff is available to research <br /> and answer questions prior to the public hearing. <br /> RetL: <br /> A. SCHOOLS ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES ORDINANCE <br /> Purpose: To conduct a second public hearing on the Schools Adequate Public <br /> FacJli0es Ordinance Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)and ordinance to <br /> address modifications suggested through previous public headings, Schools and <br /> Land Use Councils(SLUC), attorney, and administration comments. The <br /> revisions specrically address the timing of issuance of a school Cedificate of <br /> Adequate Public Facilities (CAPS)to new development and a process for annual <br /> reevaluation and update to the technical school capacitylmemberehlp formula. A <br /> few other matters were addressed in the proposed MOU. <br /> Residential growth has increased sharply in Orange County over the past decade, <br /> in large part due to the well-known quality of the public schools in the County. <br /> Concern has been expressed by elected officials that overcrowding in the schools <br /> could jecpar ize the quality education that is a linchpin of the quality of life In <br /> Orange County. In 1999, a joint committee of elected officials, staff members from <br /> the County and Towns of Cambers, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough and both school <br /> discrete began the process of designing ways to maintain proper levels of <br />