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6 <br /> 1 MEETING MINUTES <br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> 3 SEPTEMBER 3,2025 <br /> 4 REGULAR MEETING <br /> 5 <br /> 6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Lamar Proctor(Chair) Cheeks Township, Chris Johnston (Vice-Chair) Hillsborough <br /> 7 Township, Statler Gilfillen, Eno Township Representative; Delores Bailey, At-Large <br /> 8 Representative; Beth Bronson, At-Large Representative; Venkat Yendapalli, Cedar Grove <br /> 9 Township Representative; Jonah Garson, At-Large Representative; Whitney Watson, At- <br /> 10 Large Representative. <br /> 11 <br /> 12 MEMBERS ABSENT: Liz Kalles, Chapel Hill Township Representative; Charity Kirk, At-Large Representative; <br /> 13 Steve Kaufmann, Bingham Township Representative; Meg Millard, Little River Township <br /> 14 Representative. <br /> 15 <br /> 16 STAFF PRESENT: Cy Stober, Planning & Inspections Director; Perdita Holtz, Deputy Director- Long Range <br /> 17 Planning &Administration; Christopher Sandt, County Engineer; Patrick Mallett, Deputy <br /> 18 Director— Development Services; Taylor Perschau, Current Planning Manager; Jack <br /> 19 Moran, Planner 1 <br /> 20 <br /> 21 OTHERS PRESENT: Ward Marotti, Joshua Reinke,Jason Rivenbark, Don Sever, Rachel Cotter, Nicole Steele, David <br /> 22 Barcal, Beth Trahos, Laura Haywood, Lindsey Sealy, Winifried Johnson, Daniel Rawlins, <br /> 23 Stephanie Waller, Robert Medred, Peter Childers, Cathy Owens, Laura Streitfeld, Susanne <br /> 24 Berglund,Wayne Honeycutt. <br /> 25 <br /> 26 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL <br /> 27 <br /> 28 The meeting began at 7:06 PM <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Lamar Proctor: Welcome everyone. Once again, I am Lamar Proctor. I am the chair of the Planning Board. We <br /> 31 are going to call this meeting to order. We do have a quorum,the necessary seven members. <br /> 32 <br /> 33 AGENDA ITEM 2: INFORMATION ITEMS <br /> 34 <br /> 35 Lamar Proctor reviewed the upcoming Planning Board and Board of County Commissioners meeting <br /> 36 calendars. <br /> 37 <br /> 38 Lamar Proctor: The next item is a Land Use Plan 2050 update. <br /> 39 <br /> 40 Cy Stober: Yes, sir. Mr. Chair, I'm happy to provide an update on that. There is no materials to share. We <br /> 41 were planning on it, but the item was presented to the commissioners at about 10:20 p.m. at their <br /> 42 August 26th business meeting, and they chose to continue the item to tomorrow night, so we will <br /> 43 be discussing it with the commissioners tomorrow night. The overview is that in April the <br /> 44 commissioners directed myself and the long-range planning and administration staff, namely Tom <br /> 45 Altieri and Perdita Holtz to provide further explanation and subject matter expert reports on 17 <br /> 46 different topics related to the comprehensive land use plan that's being drafted at this time. <br /> 47 Essentially the schedule that you just went over, every work session there will be either staff or <br /> 48 subject matter experts presenting topics. At least as proposed, the calendar seemed to be <br /> 49 acceptable to the board, although they do want to discuss the presenters and when the subject <br /> 50 matter will be discussed on a date-by-date basis. In addition to the work sessions there will be <br /> 51 two retreats in November, a morning retreat on November 14th and an afternoon retreat on <br /> 52 November 21 st. Those are both Fridays. Minutes will be taken at all these meetings in <br /> 53 accordance with open meetings laws,and that's the current status of the land use plan, and we'll <br />