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Approved August 2 , 2023 <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 />