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<br /> 1 MEETING MINUTES
<br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD
<br /> 3 OCTOBER 1,2025
<br /> 4 REGULAR MEETING
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<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.
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<br /> 12 MEMBERS ABSENT: Delores Bailey, At-Large Representative; Steve Kaufmann, Bingham Township
<br /> 13 Representative; Meg Millard, Little River Township Representative.
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<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
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<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
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<br /> 22 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
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<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.
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<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.
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<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?
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<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
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