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1' ~ - MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD d ' February 28, 2000 .7 8 ~ The Orange County Board.of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board met on Monday, 9 February 28, 2000 at 7:30 p.m. in the Judge Gordon F. Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. 10 ~ `: 11 ~ ~ COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr. and Commissioners Margaret W. 12 Brown, Alice M. Gordon, Stephen H. Halkiotis, and Barry Jacobs - 13 ~ PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Karen Barrows and members Barry Katz, Howard 14 McAdams, Theresa Nicole Gooding-Ray, Onie Lea, Lynne Haltkamp, Runyon Woods, Rachel Preston, Leo 15 Allison, James Selkirk, and Roberk Strayhom 16 ~ ~ COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill 17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County ManaOer John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director. Craig Benedict 18 and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (III other staff members will be identii"ied appropriately below) 19 20 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT 21 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE 22 KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. 23 2a 25 A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR 26 Chair Carey wel~med everyone to the meeting. He said that Planning Board Chair Karen Barrows 27 would be introducing each item on the agenda. 28 29 B. PUBLIC CHARGE 30 Chair Carey dispensed with the reading of the public charge. 31 32 C. PUBLIC H" AF.~ RING ITEMS 33 '-; _ . 34 1. Orange Coun Subdivision Regulations Text Amendments 35 planning Director Craig Benedict said that these items have been proposed by the staff based 36 on Board of County Commissioners' goals and Planning Board discussions aver the Last six months. He said 37 that at every quarterly public hearing additional steps would be taken for the preparation of the County's 38 comprehensive plan by bringing forth regulations that go with the-comprehensive plan. He said that tonight's 39 public hearing would address two general areas: subdivision regulations and transportation issues of the 40 comprehensive plan, He said that the staff is in the process of creating a unified land development code so 41 that all of the information about zoning, subdivisions, and economic development districts will be in one book. 42 43 a. Sin 111-8 Classification of Subdivisions 44 Preser~-. there is a 24-month period where an applicant can submit an application for a minor 4S subdivision of four lots, and then after two years, the applicant can submit an application far an additional 46 four Iota. In each case, the applicant can submit an application for an additional four lots after two years. 47 ~ What is being proposed tonight is that the two-year time period would be extended ten years. If an applicant 48 submits an application for any additional lots before the ten-year period, the subdivision will be considered as 49 a major subdivision. This regulation change would give the staff a better ability to evaluate a larger scale SO project 51 b. Section III-D-1 Concept Plan Approval in all honing Districts Except the Rural Buffer 52 Presently, a concept plan can be submitted for a flexible plan and a conventional plan. The 53 Planning Board has the option of approving or denying the flexible and conventional plans. These plans do 54 not go any further until the applicant brings forth a preliminary plan. About 75-800 of the time, -the applicant 55 chooses the conventional plan. What is being proposed tonight is that the Planning staff would recommend ---.-- 56 which plan would fulfill the goals of the County Commissioners and the comprehensive plan. If the applicant 57 does not choose to go with the staff recommendation, he or she can make an appeal to the County 58 Commissioners. - ~ ` ~~ .. ee~-i,... u~_n_~ 1'_nnr_Rnt Plan Annrov2l in the Rural Buffer