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<br /> 1 MEETING MINUTES
<br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD
<br /> 3 MAY 7,2025
<br /> 4 REGULAR MEETING
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<br /> 6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Lamar Proctor(Chair) Cheeks Township, Chris Johnston (Vice-Chair) Hillsborough Township,
<br /> 7 Meg Millard, Little River Township Representative; Statler Gilfillen, Eno Township Representative;
<br /> 8 Beth Bronson,At-Large Representative; Charity Kirk,At-Large Representative;Whitney Watson,
<br /> 9 At-Large Representative; Delores Bailey,At-Large Representative;Venkat Yendapalli, Cedar
<br /> 10 Grove Township Representative;Jonah Garson,At-Large Representative.
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<br /> 12 MEMBERS ABSENT: Steve Kaufmann, Bingham Township Representative; Liz Kalies, Chapel Hill Township
<br /> 13 Representative.
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<br /> 15 STAFF PRESENT: Cy Stober, Planning & Inspections Director; Perdita Holtz, Deputy Director—Long Range Planning
<br /> 16 &Administration; Tom Altieri, Senior Planner-Long Range Planning&Administrative Division;
<br /> 17 Patrick Mallett, Deputy Director—Development Services; Jack Moran, Planner 1
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<br /> 19 OTHERS PRESENT: Albert Benshoff, Lydia Lavelle, Liz HIII
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<br /> 21 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
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<br /> 23 The meeting began at 7:02 PM
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<br /> 27 AGENDA ITEM 7: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE(UDO)TEXT AMENDMENT—TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES-
<br /> 28 To review and make a recommendation to the BOCC on Planning Director-initiated amendments
<br /> 29 to the LIDO pertaining to telecommunication facilities. This amendment was reviewed at the April
<br /> 30 9, 2025, ORC meeting. The anticipated BOCC public hearing date is June 3, 2025.
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<br /> 32 Patrick Mallett: Good evening. You probably got an email from me today, apologies, but I set out some hard
<br /> 33 copies at each of your desks. They're color-coded for you. I'm just going to walk you through
<br /> 34 those before I jump into the presentation. These are essentially replacement items for the
<br /> 35 abstract and then adding statements of consistencies for Action Items Number 7 and 8. Seven is
<br /> 36 the telecom and then eight being the solar amendment. Both of these items should be familiar,for
<br /> 37 those of you that attended last month's meeting,we briefed it at the ORC, noticed at the last
<br /> 38 minute that we really need to include the statement of consistency,so my apologies for that late
<br /> 39 breaking change. The first attachment is a replacement on page,just so you can follow along
<br /> 40 and, and cross-reference in your agenda packet,that's the abstract for the telecom replaces
<br /> 41 Pages 42 and 43 of your agenda packet. The statement of consistency for that text change is
<br /> 42 Page 94 of your packets. You also have a letter from the Brough Law Firm, our consultants with
<br /> 43 the telecom RFP responding to industry comments including the CTIA letter that's right behind it,
<br /> 44 and then with the solar amendments, Pages 95 and 96,we've going to have replacements to the
<br /> 45 abstracts, and then Page 107,the statement of consistency,the very last page of your agenda
<br /> 46 packet. Like I said, I think this is pretty familiar to most of you because you saw it last month, and
<br /> 47 I'm going to be quick, and then we can follow along with more detailed questions if needed. The
<br /> 48 first one is Agenda Item Number 7. This is the telecommunications standards, Section 5.10 of the
<br /> 49 ordinance, and summary of the text amendment telecommunications, elements of the LIDO have
<br /> 50 not been changed since April 5th, 2011,the adoption of the ordinance. Since that adoption,there
<br /> 51 have been a quite good number of federal state laws pertaining to telecommunications that have
<br /> 52 changed. Our ordinance isn't consistent with current federal and state law in many respects.
<br /> 53 Technology has changed. The current roles and procedures don't really align with the public
<br /> 54 need. There was a gap in coverage and an equity issue, especially in the rural areas,and it
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