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Approved 4/17/2000 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND HILLSBOROUGH TOWN COMMISSIONERS January 31, 2000 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in joint session with the Hillsborough Town Commissioners on Monday, January 31, 2000 at 7:30 p. m. in the Government Services Center, Hillsborough, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr. and Commissioners Margaret W. Brawn, Stephen H. Halkiotis, and Barry Jacobs COUNTY COMMISSIONER ABSENT: Commissioner Alice Gordon HILLSBOROUGH TOWN COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Mayor Horace Johnson and Town Commissioners Kenneth Chavious, Francis L. Dancy, Evelyn Lloyd, Brian Lowen, and Mark Sheridan COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Manager Rod Visser, and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (all other staff members will be identified appropriately below} TOWN STAFF PRESENT: Town Manager Eric Peterson and Planning Director Margaret Hauth NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. Mayor Horace Johnson introduced his Board members. Chair Carey introduced the County Commissioners and announced that Commissioner Gordon could not be here because of the weather. The items on the agenda were reordered. OPENING COMMENTS Commissioner Brawn said that she looks forward to working with the Hillsborough Town Commissioners. She distributed a notice about an upcoming meeting with Senator Edwards and a press release on the Shearon Harris issue. She said that all municipalities and counties in the surrounding area would be getting a letter requesting consideration of financial support for the Shearon Harris suit. COUNTYITOWN ISSUES OF MUTUAL CONCERN a. I-40/Old NC 86 Economic Development District Cooperative Efforts County Manager John Link said that the background material provides a brief summary of the plans for this Economic Development District. Planning Director Craig Benedict showed the EDD on a map. The interest of the Economic Development Districts was to create a node of increased nonresidential development with increased traffic activity. Along with the map was an EDD design manual. The County also has two other EDDs - ane at Buckhorn Road and I-85 and the other at the US 7011-85 corridor in the Durham area. The activity has been very slow in the various EDDs in the County. Mayor Johnson made reference to the Meadowlands development and asked how much the County participated in that effort and John Link said he thought it was around $65,000. Commissioner Brown said that she has always been interested in the entranceway from I-40 to Old NC 86 and she would like to work with the appropriate group to improve this entranceway. Commissioner Jacobs said that one of the successes was through the Town and the County working together on Corbin Downs. He hopes that what came out of that process was the identification of issues that need to be addressed. The concerns about the entranceways were part of these issues that were identified. He hopes a small group can be put together to determine how this area should look. He said that there has even been talk about using the transfer of development rights in this area. He explained how this would work to protect other areas of the counties. This would put high density where it is wanted and protect same of the natural areas and open space. Evelyn Lloyd said that she would serve on a committee if such a committee were established.