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10 DRAFT 150 151 Chris Johnston: Perfect, so it is unanimous. The minutes have been approved. 152 153 AGENDA ITEM 5: CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS To AGENDA 154 155 AGENDA ITEM 6: PUBLIC CHARGE 156 157 AGENDA ITEM 7: CHAIR COMMENTS 158 159 Chris Johnston: All right next consideration of additions to the agenda. Does anyone have anything that 160 they'd like to add to tonight's agenda? Great, hearing nothing, we will go ahead and take 161 the agenda as it is. There is no public tonight, so I am going to, in my role of board chair, 162 skip over that component. I don't have any comments other than Lamar is missed in this 163 particular meeting. 164 165 AGENDA ITEM 8: ZONING ATLAS AMENDMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT-TO REVIEW AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO 166 THE BOCC ON A COUNTY-INITIATED ZONING ATLAS AMENDMENT TO AMEND THE JORDAN LAKE 167 UNPROTECTED WATERSHED OVERLAY DISTRICT AND UNIVERSITY LAKE PROTECTED WATERSHED 168 OVERLAY DISTRICT BOUNDARY LINE ON ONE UNADDRESSED—19.4 ACRE PARCEL(PIN:9851-43- 169 3215)OFF DODSON'S CROSSROADS IN BINGHAM TOWNSHIP. THIS ITEM IS SCHEDULED FOR 170 BOCC PUBLIC HEARING ON MARCH 5,2026. 171 172 Taylor Perschau: Taylor Perschau, current planning and zoning manager. I will be presenting a watershed 173 protection overlay amendment application, so it is a zoning atlas amendment, you have 174 seen a couple of these before, but I will do a little bit of process, and then dive into the 175 details. The address of the project being affected is actually an unaddressed parcel at the 176 moment off of Dodson's Crossroads at the intersection of Dodson's and Arden Estate 177 Court, which is a newly established private road. So, watershed protection overlay 178 districts are a component of a zoning atlas. They are adopted as an overlay. They are a 179 component of the Orange County's delegated stormwater management program. We 180 have tiers of watershed protection. We have critical and protected water supply 181 watersheds that are regulated by this overlay district because they are adopted as a 182 zoning layer. Any change to the watershed boundaries requires a change to the zoning 183 map. When we're talking about watersheds, it's explicitly where does water fall in relation 184 to water supplies. The closer you get to a water supply, the more protective the measures 185 are going to be around those, specifically in regard to how much built-upon area and how 186 much residential density can be established in those areas. So, as a part of Orange 187 County's stormwater management program, this is a two-step process. We're in step 2 188 where we're initiating a zoning atlas amendment that will go to the Board of County 189 Commissioners so I won't go to the details of zoning atlas, you're used to that, but 190 because it is part of our delegated program, the step one, which has already happened is 191 also a component different from other zoning amendments. First what happens is a 192 boundary line discrepancy is identified, that is what Orange County has mapped in our 193 overall topography, the contours. A surveyor goes out on site and finds that field work 194 doesn't match our current map, so how do we correct the map. We're going to rely on the 195 survey work for what the ridge line actually is telling us where the water falls between 196 those watersheds. So, the property owner and their surveyor identified a discrepancy. 197 They informed planning staff. Planning staff before this meeting has notified the Board of 198 County Commissioners of the discrepancy and the work that is required to amend it, and 199 county staff has also worked with the NC Environmental Management Commission. Both