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30 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 1 MEETING MINUTES <br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> 3 OCTOBER 1,2025 <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; Beth Bronson, At-Large <br /> 8 Representative; Venkat Yendapalli, Cedar Grove Township Representative; Jonah <br /> 9 Garson, At-Large Representative; Whitney Watson, At-Large Representative; Liz Kalies, <br /> 10 Chapel Hill Township Representative; Charity Kirk, At-Large Representative. <br /> 11 <br /> 12 MEMBERS ABSENT: Delores Bailey, At-Large Representative; Steve Kaufmann, Bingham Township <br /> 13 Representative; Meg Millard, Little River Township Representative. <br /> 14 <br /> 15 STAFF PRESENT: Cy Stober, Planning & Inspections Director; Christopher Sandt, County Engineer; Patrick <br /> 16 Mallett, Deputy Director— Development Services; Taylor Perschau, Current Planning <br /> 17 Manager; Jack Moran, Planner 1 <br /> 18 <br /> 19 OTHERS PRESENT: Al Carnevale, Donna Crowder, Danielle Cabral, Don Sever,Joshua Reinke, Beth Trahos, David <br /> 20 Barcal, Cathy Owens, Hope Haywood, Stephanie Waller <br /> 21 <br /> 22 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL <br /> 23 <br /> 24 Lamar Proctor: Okay. All right, I'm Lamar Proctor. I'm the chair of the planning board. We're going to bring this <br /> 25 meeting to order. <br /> 26 <br /> 27 ************************************ <br /> 28 <br /> 29 <br /> 30 <br /> 31 AGENDA ITEM 8: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT-IMPERVIOUS SURFACES,WATERSHED <br /> 32 PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICTS,AND STREAM BUFFERS-To review and make a recommendation <br /> 33 to the BOCC on Planning Director-initiated amendments to the UDO pertaining to impervious <br /> 34 surfaces,watershed protection overlay districts,and stream buffers. The anticipated BOCC public <br /> 35 hearing date is November 6, 2025. This item was on the September 3,2025, agenda but was not <br /> 36 discussed and tabled to the October meeting date. <br /> 37 <br /> 38 Lamar Proctor: All right, let's return back to order so we can get through Agenda Item 8, unified development <br /> 39 ordinance text amendment: Impervious surfaces watershed protection, overlay districts, and <br /> 40 stream buffers. Chris? <br /> 41 <br /> 42 Christopher Sandt: Good evening. I'm Christopher Sandt. I'm your county engineer here in the planning and <br /> 43 inspection department. As you recall, I think that most of you were here for the July 9th ORC. 1 <br /> 44 see a couple of new faces, so I can't go through it at lightning speed. But I am here today to <br /> 45 present some straightforward proposed LIDO text amendments. Now,the title of my presentation <br /> 46 is a little deceiving. It's big words in there. It might look a little scary, but I assure you we are not <br /> 47 altering the basis of what we stand for here in the county,which is protection of our streams and <br /> 48 reservoirs. We're simply reacting to some recently passed state law and then just responding to <br /> 49 constituents and just the workability of our unified development ordinance. We're always looking <br /> 50 to improve it. It's a living document. It's not perfect, so that's what these amendments are for. <br /> 51 So, kind of the main reason we are here today is it's,well, not so recent anymore, but end of 2023, <br /> 52 Regulatory Reform Act of 2024 was passed by the state, and that included some pretty specific <br /> 53 clarifications related to our watershed protection overlay districts. And I'll get into them up here <br /> 54 shortly because I know a couple of you weren't at the last presentation. So specific, so we have <br />