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APPROVED 11!712001 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AND <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />May 29, 2001 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board met on <br />Tuesday, May 29, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Gordan Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North <br />Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners <br />Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordan, and Barry Jacobs <br />PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Nicole Gooding-Ray and members <br />Crauford Goodwin, Howard McAdams, Rachel Preston, Hunter Schofield, Bob Strayhorn, <br />Theodore W. Triebel and Runyon Woods <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Planning Director Craig <br />Benedict and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (all other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below) <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br />Chair Halkiotis outlined the agenda for the meeting. <br />B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Chair Halkiotis read the public charge. <br />C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS (County Commissioners Only) <br />1. Proposed Amendments to Ordinance Prohibiting the Keeping of Animals <br />Dangerous to persons and Property within Orange County <br />Health Director Rosemary Summers made the presentation. In the summer of <br />2000, the Committee on Animal and Human Safety appeared before the Board with a <br />request for the County Commissioners to consider an ordinance that would ban the display <br />of exotic animals. This request was referred to the Board of Health. The Board of Health's <br />Animal Control Environmental Health Committee took up that issue on August 16, 2000 <br />and met several times to consider the ordinance. The committee noted that the 1993 <br />ordinance to prohibit the keeping of wild and dangerous animals had not been amended. <br />The committee proposed amendments to the ordinance that do not change the substance <br />of the ordinance. The physical enclosure restrictions have been eliminated to make it <br />much clearer that the intent of the ordinance is to prohibit the keeping of wild and <br />dangerous animals. There are presently no known wild or dangerous animals being kept <br />in the County. This ordinance only applies to the unincorporated areas of the County. <br />Commissioner Brawn asked a clarifying question about the difference between <br />this item and the next item. The first ordinance is prohibiting the keeping of wild animals <br />dangerous to persons and property and the second ordinance is prohibiting the display of <br />wild and exotic animals. <br />Commissioner Jacobs asked about the new abstract and Rosemary Summers <br />said that she and the County Attorney reviewed the language of the document and did not <br />change anything in the intent, but only cleaned up some of the language. <br />