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8 <br /> 56 charge, the Chair will ask the offending member to leave the meeting until that individual regains <br /> 57 personal control. Should decorum fail to be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting until such <br /> 58 time that a genuine commitment to this public charge is observed. <br /> 59 <br /> 60 <br /> 61 AGENDA ITEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS <br /> 62 There were no comments. <br /> 63 <br /> 64 <br /> 65 AGENDA ITEM 7: COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN UPDATE—To receive information on the consultant contract that <br /> 66 was approved by the BOCC on May 16, 2023. <br /> 67 <br /> 68 PRESENTER: Tom Altieri, Senior Planner—Long Range Planning &Administrative Division <br /> 69 <br /> 70 Tom Altieri gave a review of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and presented the Board with information on the <br /> 71 consultant contract that was approved by the BOCC on May 16, 2023. <br /> 72 <br /> 73 Statler Gilfillen: How many different companies submitted proposals on this, and can you tell us who they were? <br /> 74 <br /> 75 Tom Altieri:Yes, I can.There were two: Clarion and Associates and Inspire Placemaking. <br /> 76 <br /> 77 Statler Gilfillen:The second one was who? <br /> 78 <br /> 79 Tom Altieri: Inspire Placemaking.They do have an office in Raleigh and are headquartered out of Florida. <br /> 80 <br /> 81 Statler Gilfillen: So you only had two submittals? <br /> 82 <br /> 83 Tom Altieri:That's correct. <br /> 84 <br /> 85 Charity Kirk: I know we've talked about how we can't touch sustainability as a planning board and there are water issues <br /> 86 that we had to dance around,and we are only land-use. Is this a time where we push the planning board to have more <br /> 87 say in things like telling applicants that they need to put more water-saving measures in their buildings? Is this the time <br /> 88 where we push for that...efficiency standards and such? <br /> 89 <br /> 90 Tom Altieri:Water conservation, protection of our water supply, both surface water and groundwater, those are items <br /> 91 that would be addressed in our Comprehensive Land Use Plan goals and objectives that pertain to those areas and any <br /> 92 associated recommendations. <br /> 93 <br /> 94 Charity Kirk: So that would allow the future planning board more leeway in what we judge projects on? <br /> 95 Tom Altieri: It could potentially lead to that. If you remember back to one of those early slides, the Comprehensive Land <br /> 96 Use Plan is a plan, it's a guide, it expresses a vision. It is to be implemented through subsequent actions largely through <br /> 97 the Unified Development Ordinance. So,when we are looking at some of those issues like potentially related to <br /> 98 groundwater or groundwater recharge,wells, you get into things like lot size and density and those are things that are <br /> 99 addressed through standards in the UDO. <br /> 100 <br /> 101 Charity Kirk: So like with the Lawrence Road project,we could have said"We will approve this if you implement water <br /> 102 saving measures?"That would be something that we could then pull from the comprehensive plan and then put in as an <br /> 103 amendment? Is this the area where we can start doing that or is there some other area where we can start doing that? <br /> 104 <br /> 105 Beth Bronson: I just want to make sure that there is a distinction between the development ordinance and the standards <br /> 106 with which we require them to apply for the application to build...those type of water saving measures would be place in <br /> 107 the development ordinance in section 6 but then the comprehensive plan would be used to bolster whether we approve <br /> 108 or deny a consideration based on that it is or is not in line with the comprehensive land use...I could be wrong, I just <br /> 109 wanted to see if that was.... <br /> 110 <br />