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<br />had a lot of stuff and other meetings. And then on page 39 of your agenda packet, we list the 1038
<br />activities that we expect to be working on in 2025, and so that includes the Land Use Plan update, 1039
<br />which is a major work product that staff is working on as well as the consultant. And then also, 1040
<br />UDO amendments, just so you know, with the talk of the conservation subdivisions, there is 1041
<br />actually an effort by staff right now to draft some UDO amendments pertaining to the conservation 1042
<br />subdivisions in response to a petition that was made by a Board of County Commissioners 1043
<br />member earlier this year. And then, there are the three others that are a little bit less staff time 1044
<br />intensive. I will note that Meg has already done her first training session, and we are going to 1045
<br />knock that out quick. We are going to be done by early January. She's the only new board 1046
<br />member, and then here, we’re now at the end of the page, where the concerns or emerging issues 1047
<br />that the planning board may wish to bring the commissioner's attention. We have still wireless 1048
<br />and broadband access, which is a continuing project in the county. And concerns with Mebane in 1049
<br />western Orange County. And continuing onto the last page, the watershed review and then a 1050
<br />couple things for inclusion into the land use plan pertaining to rural enterprises and to 1051
<br />transportation even though the planning department no longer includes the transportation 1052
<br />component within our department. It was moved out of planning a couple of years ago, and is 1053
<br />now its own separate department, but there is still a land use and transportation connection that 1054
<br />everybody acknowledges. So, the recommendation for tonight is for you all to, hopefully, review 1055
<br />the document prior to the meeting, and to talk about any ideas that any of you may have for 1056
<br />additional activities to be worked on in 2025. You know, time permitting of course, or any 1057
<br />additional issues to be brought to the attention of the BOCC, and then to either approve the work 1058
<br />plan and annual report or ask staff to incorporate the results of any discussion, and submit the 1059
<br />form to the clerk's office, or for us to incorporate the results and then bring it back for your further 1060
<br />review at the January 8, 2025, meeting. And with that, I will turn it over for you all. 1061
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<br />Adam Beeman: Go ahead, Charity. 1063
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<br />Charity Kirk: So, the private water and sewer system is coming up. What can we have a say on? What can 1065
<br />land use do to specify systems. That keeps coming up as a concern, but besides just hearing 1066
<br />about it and expressing opinion, what power, what information, is there anything that we can be 1067
<br />involved in there? 1068
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<br />Perdita Holtz: Right. You know, actually, that is something that we need to look at more because by default 1070
<br />they're allowed. And as you know in North Carolina, if it's allowed, we're not quite sure if we can 1071
<br />not allow it. And this is one of things that Cy talked about doing a bit more research for staff to 1072
<br />figure out. Number 1, what are the options? And then, Number 2, do we want to do anything with 1073
<br />the options? 1074
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<br />Charity Kirk: Yeah. I talked with an inspector at Environmental Health, and he was talking about mobile home 1076
<br />parks, and how there is a turnover, and they just sort of let the systems degrade, how could we 1077
<br />prevent that stuff that's already happening? How can we prevent that in the future too? But that 1078
<br />would be our suggestion to staff to look into it. 1079
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<br />Perdita Holtz: Yeah, and it would really be as passing it on to Environmental Health because once it's in the 1081
<br />ground, it's on Environmental Health. 1082
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<br />Charity Kirk: So, is there land use? Can land use dictate what systems would be allowed? 1084
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<br />Perdita Holtz: Maybe. Maybe not. There was a time where we had regulations that if you were over a certain 1086
<br />size, that you had to get an SUP but that was taken out of the UDO several years ago. 1087
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<br />Cy Stober: Another missing component that is present is storm water and the requirement of a performance 1089
<br />guarantee and that is complicated because, would that be environment health, would that be 1090
<br />planning, I don't know. But it's kind of ambiguous whether we could require this at that time. So, 1091
<br />again, Perdita’s point, having some kind of regulations regarding an engineered system would be 1092
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