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Public Comments: Tuscany Ridge(transcribed verbatim) Gooding-Ray, Chair.We will hold you to three minutes for your comments. Benedict:The Tuscany Ridge subdivision was approved here at the previous meeting[June 6,2002].It was put on the agenda for approximately the June IS'meeting of the BOCC. It did not make it onto the agenda that night because of other agenda items. It was moved to the June 27'"BOCC meeting at which there were presentations by staff and discussion from the developer and the BOCC did approve the preliminary plan of the Tuscany Ridge subdivision as of June 27`",2002 consistent with recommendations from this board with all the conditions stated. Gooding-Ray: Were there any other unique conditions? Benedict: No additional conditions were added. It went through as stated including the ten plus recommendations that came from this board about conditions of approval. It was also accented at that meeting that the property is in the rural buffer that the density in the rural buffer is 2 acres per unit and the minimum lot size in the rural buffer from a zoning standpoint is a minimum 2 acre lot size and in general those two criteria set the design concept for the subdivision.There was some discussion of that matter there. But right now it has been approved by our Commissioners. We did want to hear from the public[here tonight]also in the rural buffer. Neighborhood information meeting program which is typical of other sections of the County is not as part of our regulations because it is part of the joint planning area and the joint planning area did not have those requirements in there,so it is not intended to be there.The developer did speak to some residents in the area as I understand,but I would like to hear from the general public also. Gooding-Ray:I have a couple questions, first is from what you have said, it is my understanding that there is nothing that this board can do to change the decision of the County commissioners on this subdivision. This subdivision has been approved.There is definitely nothing that the planning board can do. So there is the issue is,what I am feeling like we are going to get public comments on and what is going to be helpful to us on the board is how to prevent this from happening again. I am going to say it again;there is nothing the planning board can do to stop this.Hold on[comment to public].What we do is make recommendations to the County commissioners and they are the ones that make the decisions. So that is correct And then the other issue if you can explain that again perhaps to the board is,if we wanted to make a change in the neighborhood notification in this area what would be required for us to make that recommendation? Benedict: This board can make a recommendation[regarding notification]if that recommendation is approved by our Commissioners we would schedule it for a joint planning agreement meeting with Chapel FEB and Carrboro at the earliest date would be October 9t°of this year where we have a join planning meeting. That item would be an amendment to the rules and regulations within the rural buffer. If approved or if heard at that public hearing on October 96',and approved by the three jurisdictions involved,then it can be inserted through a process and put into our subdivision ordinance. Gooding-Ray:Do you have a comment before we start our public comments? Schofield:Yes. I think for information purposes, I was chairing the meeting at which the development was approved.While the approval may have been against some of the personal preferences of members of the pluming board,the basis of the approval,based on the information this planning board received is that,the subdivision application met all of the requirements in the subdivision zoning ordinance. It met the rules.The information we may have received is imperfect,perhaps,but with the information the