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330 <br />Lamar Proctor: For the record, I spoke with Mr. Parker too. You said no one else spoke with Mr. Parker. 331 <br /> 332 <br />Statler Gilfillen: He had informed me that none of the opposition had reached out to him. 333 <br /> 334 MOTION BY Charity Kirk to recommend denial because the proposed amendment does not match the residential 335 <br />character of this neighborhood, it will not meet the walkability standards that we believe describes a mixed residential 336 <br />development, it is not consistent with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, specifically land use objectives 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 337 <br />3.2 and land use goal 6.2. Seconded by Lamar Proctor. 338 <br />Motion Passed 7-3 (Poole, Beeman, Gilfillen) 339 <br /> 340 <br />Cy Stober: There is a tentative public hearing date of June 6, 2023. 341 <br /> 342 <br />Tom Altieri: There has been a change to the date on which the county commissioners will consider the consultant 343 <br />contract for the comprehensive land use plan. The date has been changed from June 6 to May 16, 2023. 344 <br /> 345 <br />Charity Kirk: Can I make a motion to have staff review applicant time limits for presentations? 346 <br /> 347 <br />Adam Beeman: As I said, if you want to discuss that, we can discuss that before we close the meeting so that we can all 348 <br />be on the same page. I don’t know how many of us read the email and got through. If we want to have a quick 349 <br />discussion about what you are proposing, then we can go from there. 350 <br /> 351 <br />Charity Kirk: Based on a number of the presentations that we’ve had recently, particularly this Lawrence Road 352 <br />presentation, I don’t feel that it was well organized nor respectful of our time nor respectful of the public and all the 353 <br />comments. My suggestion is to require presentations to be no longer than an hour and a half and ask them at the time of 354 <br />meeting scheduling, how long they are going to be. If they are going to be over an hour, make sure that they know they 355 <br />are going to need their own meeting. That is my suggestion. Staff might have something more to say. 356 <br /> 357 <br />Cy Stober: I have spoken with several of you in the last month about specifically the Lawrence Road zoning case 358 <br />because of applicant presentation length, the limit on public comments to 3 minutes, setting an adjournment time of 10 359 <br />o’clock, empowering you all to change rules as you need by a simple majority vote. Right now, our rules of procedure are 360 <br />those that are assigned to all boards for Orange County. I propose that we actually have a work session. We have no 361 <br />other zoning applications at this time on file, so we have future meetings that outside of trainings, you have an 362 <br />opportunity to have some time to discuss these matters and frankly, we have some concerns that we would like to 363 <br />address and recommend for formal amendment of the planning board’s rules of procedure so that you all have the ability 364 <br />to tell applicants, to tell the public, no, we’ve adopted these rules of procedure, the commissioners adopted them at our 365 <br />recommendation and this is what the rules are when you come to the planning board: presentation length, public 366 <br />comment length, meeting duration, and also giving you the powers to waive those rules as you see fit on a case by case 367 <br />basis. 368 <br /> 369 <br />Melissa Poole: So you are suggesting that there is nothing on the agenda for June and that we should set June as a 370 <br />work session to discuss that in more depth? 371 <br /> 372 <br />Cy Stober: The primary feature on the June agenda will be Tom coming back to provide more details on the consultant 373 <br />for the comprehensive plan and give you a preview of what to expect for the comprehensive plan. 374 <br /> 375 <br />Melissa Poole: You are suggesting that we make a motion to set a work session on the agenda to discuss that in more 376 <br />depth? 377 <br /> 378 <br />Cy Stober: I think it’s needed. I think as staff it would be to our benefit as well, providing that communication to 379 <br />applicants to say “this is what the expectations are when you come before the planning board and if you are going to 380 <br />need to deviate from that because you have a very complex project, you need to make that clear upfront.” That can be 381 <br />presented to the planning board for consideration. 382 <br /> 383 <br />41