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APPROVED 9/4/2014 MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING <br /> May 27, 2014 <br /> 7:00 P.M. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met with the Orange County Planning <br /> Board for a Quarterly Public Hearing on May 27, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the DSS Offices, <br /> Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Mark <br /> Dorosin, Alice M. Gordon, Earl McKee, Bernadette Pelissier, Renee Price and Penny Rich <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: James Bryan (Staff Attorney) <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Interim County Manager Michael Talbert and Deputy Clerk to the <br /> Board David Hunt (All other staff inembers will be identified appropriately below) <br /> PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Pete Hallenbeck and Planning Board <br /> members, Lisa Stuckey, Andrea Rohrbacher, Maxecine Mitchell, and Herman Staats <br /> PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: James Lea, Paul Guthrie, Tony Blake, H.T. <br /> "Buddy" Hartley, (not sworn in yet: Bryant Warren, Laura Nicholson, and Lydia Wegman) <br /> Chair Jacobs called the meeting to order at 7:08 p.m. <br /> OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br /> Chair Jacobs reviewed the following documents at the official's places: <br /> - Blue sheets - Emails related to Item c-1- Class A Special Use Permit <br /> - PowerPoint slides for Item c-1 - Class A Special Use Permit <br /> - PowerPoint slides for Item c-2— Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text <br /> Amendment <br /> A. PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> Chair Jacobs dispensed with the reading of the Public Charge. <br /> B. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br /> 1. Class A Special Use Permit -To review a Class A Special Use Permit application <br /> seeking to develop a solar array/public utility station on two parcels of property, totaling <br /> approximately 50 acres in area, off of Mt. Sinai Road near Cascade Drive in Chapel Hill <br /> Township. <br /> Planning Board Chair Pete Hallenbeck introduced this item. <br /> Pete Hallenbeck: Good evening, everyone. We will start with the first agenda. I will turn it over <br /> to Michael Harvey. <br /> Michael Harvey: Thank you very much. Michael Harvey, current planning division. I think at <br /> this point in time, since we are about to call a public hearing to order on a quasi-judicial item, <br /> any individual intending to offer testimony before the Board, needs to come up and be sworn. <br /> Those who were planning to speak were sworn in. <br />