Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
15 <br />1 MINUTES <br />2 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />3 AND <br />4 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />$ August.28, 2000 <br />6 <br />7 The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board met on Monday, <br />$ August 28, 2000 at 7:30 p.m. in the Judge Gordon F. Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />9 <br />10 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Vice-Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners <br />11 Margaret W. Brown, Alice M. Gordon, and Barry Jacobs <br />12 COUNTY COMMISSIONER ABSENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr. <br />13 PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Leo Allison, Chair and members Runyon Woods, Bob <br />14 Strayhom, Crauford Goodwin, Karen Barrows, Howard McAdams, Barry Katz, and Rachel Preston <br />15 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />16 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director Craig Benedict <br />17 and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (all other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br />18 <br />19 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />20 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE <br />21 KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. <br />22 <br />23 A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE VICE-CHAIR <br />24 He announced that Chair Carey was out of town and that he, Commissioner Halkiotis, would <br />25 be chairing this meeting along with Leo Allison, Chair of the Orange County Planning Board. The <br />26 Board of Commissioners agreed to address item C5 first -Shaping Orange County's Future <br />27 Report. <br />28 <br />29 B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br />3o Commissioner Halkiotis read the public charge. <br />31 <br />32 NOTE: Planning Board Chair Leo Allison chaired items C1 and 4 <br />33 Commissioners' Vice-Chair Stephen Halkiotis chaired items 2, 3, and 5 <br />34 <br />3s C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br />36 1. O_ ranee Coun Zonins~ Ordinance Text Amendments <br />37 a. Article 22 Definitions for Lot, Usable <br />38 b. Article 22 Definitions of Stream Buffer <br />39 c. Section 6.23.7 Stream Buffers <br />40 ~ d. Detailed Table of Contents <br />41 e. Section 6.24 Stream Buffers Outside of Watershed Protection Overlay <br />42 ~IStrICtS <br />43 f. Section 6.25 Usable lot areas when using Ground Absorption Septic Systems <br />44 <br />45 Planner Robert Davis summarized this item. He said that these text amendments were <br />46 coming forward to clean up a section of the ordinance for better interpretation and to consistently <br />47 interpret what the stream buffer section means. He said that right now there was not a stream <br />4s buffer requirement unless the land was in a watershed. He explained a map showing the stream <br />49 buffers and the edge of the flood plain. On the calculation of the width, the ordinance indicates that <br />so only a perpendicular line across the stream should be drawn, but it does not say how many times <br />51 this should be done along the stream. He said that the minimum feet that the staff is <br />52 recommending is 100 feet along the horizontal area. Also, the definition of a Usable Lot has been <br />53 clarified as, "the portion of a zoning lot unencumbered by stream buffers, conservation easements, <br />S4 drainage easements, public and private right-of--ways, access easements, and utility easements." <br />55 The definition also includes areas affected by steep slopes, which are slopes greater than 15%, <br />s6 wildlife corridors, ponds, lakes, and streams. This item will be going back to the Planning Board <br />