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®~~~ 40 . <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AND <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />MAY 24,1999 <br />MINUTES <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners, and the Orange County Planning Board <br />met in joint session on Monday, May 24, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. in the Judge F. Gordon Battle <br />Courtroom, Orange County Courthouse, 106 E. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, North. Carolina, <br />for the purpose of holding a joint public hearing. <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Alice M. Gordon, and <br />Commissioners Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Stephen H. Halkiotis, and Barry Jacobs. <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Karen Barrows <br />and members Leo Allison,-Nell Andrews. Barry Katz, Howard McAdams, Jr., Robert Strayhorn <br />and Runyon, Woods <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: S.A.M. Brooks, James <br />Selkirk, ,and. Elizabeth Walters , <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director Craig Benedict, <br />Planners Robert Davis and Karen Lincoln and Deputy Clerk to the Board Kathy Baker. Other <br />staff members present will be identified in the minutes as appropriate. <br />A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br />Chair Gordon convened the meeting. She indicated that both of the items on the <br />agenda would be chaired by Planning Board Chair Karen Barrows. <br />B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Chair Gordon dispensed with the reading of the Public Charge. <br />Ms. Barrows indicated that a letter of support for both the proposed Subdivision <br />Regulation Text Amendments-and the Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments was received from <br />Dan VanderMeer, Chair of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority Board of .Directors... Mr. <br />VanderMeer stated that "Orange Water and Sewer Authority recognizes that the County's. <br />Flexible Development provisions are an important component of the Creative Open Space <br />Design - or Clustering -approach that we have recommended as a development option in the <br />Cane Creek Watershed. Orange Water and Sewer Authority believes that the proposed <br />amendments would appropriately strengthen some of the current open space requirements for <br />cluster developments in ways that will more adequately protect the Cane Creek water supply.- <br />Although our Board of Directors has not had sufficient opportunity to review the proposed <br />amendments in detail, we generally support their adoption and look forward to providing <br />