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<br /> Approved 10.1.25
<br /> 1 MEETING MINUTES
<br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD
<br /> 3 SEPTEMBER 3,2025
<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; 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.
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<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.
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<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
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<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.
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<br /> 29 AGENDA ITEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS
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<br /> 31 Lamar Proctor: I do have a few comments. First of all, I'm just going to ask members of the Planning Board to
<br /> 32 always give their full attention to the presenters and to the public when they're making comments.
<br /> 33 It's okay if you need to speak to each other to reference a page number because we are dealing
<br /> 34 with hundreds of pages in these packets, and there is a lot of information that's being considered,
<br /> 35 but we should refrain from having lengthy or substantive discussions amongst ourselves. This is a
<br /> 36 legislative process, and we should be discussing that amongst ourselves in public at the
<br /> 37 appropriate time. I also wanted to remind the Planning Board that if there are errors you notice in
<br /> 38 the packet that are grammatical or scrivener's errors as we call them in the courtroom or,
<br /> 39 formatting errors,those can be directed to Cy Stober as the planning director, and those do not
<br /> 40 have to be necessarily brought out in the open meeting. We need to make the most efficient use
<br /> 41 of our time and discuss the substantive issues that are before us. I would just like to reiterate to
<br /> 42 everyone,the Planning Board takes this job very seriously. We're all volunteers. We understand
<br /> 43 that planning, and especially zoning decisions and land use planning decisions are very emotional
<br /> 44 for the people it effects,that is you're talking about changing the character of people's homes,
<br /> 45 where they reside,the characters of their community, and these are very important decisions, and
<br /> 46 we take them seriously,so we would ask just for everyone to respect each other. Sometimes
<br /> 47 these are not popular decisions. Sometimes they're difficult,and we are doing our best to try and
<br /> 48 hear all the voices and make an informed recommendation to the Board of County
<br /> 49 Commissioners, and I would just remind everyone that we are not the final decision here on these
<br /> 50 planning land use issues. We make recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners,
<br /> 51 and they make the final decision as to these issues. Moving along to Agenda Item 7,we have a
<br /> 52 zoning atlas amendment to review and make recommendations to the Board of County
<br /> 53 Commissioners on a zoning atlas amendment to rezone plus or minus 78.11 acres located at
<br /> 54 1039-UT NC 86 North Hillsborough within the Hillsborough Township of Orange County. The
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