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1 <br /> APPROVED 6/21/2016 <br /> MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING <br /> May 23, 2016 <br /> 7:00 P.M. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met with the Orange County Planning Board for a <br /> Quarterly Public Hearing on Monday, May 23, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Building in <br /> Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Earl McKee and Commissioners Barry Jacobs, <br /> Mia Burroughs, Mark Dorosin, Bernadette Pelissier, Renee Price and Penny Rich <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: James Bryan (Staff Attorney) <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Deputy County Manager Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board <br /> Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> Chair McKee called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. <br /> 1. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br /> Chair McKee reviewed items at the Commissioners' places: <br /> - PowerPoint for Item c-1 <br /> - PowerPoint for Item c-2 <br /> - cream sheet: Replacement text for Item c-2 <br /> - outline for procedure of public hearings <br /> 2. PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> Chair McKee dispensed with the reading of the Public Charge. <br /> 3. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br /> a. Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text <br /> Amendments -To review government-initiated amendments to the text of the <br /> Comprehensive Plan and UDO regarding revisions to the 0/1 (Office Institutional) zoning <br /> district and to add a new permitted use type, Research and Manufacturing Facility, to the <br /> modified 0/1 district and to the Industrial districts (1-1, 1-2, and 1-3). <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> Based on Board of County Commissioners' (BOCC) goals to promote economic sustainability <br /> through planning policies and orderly growth this amendment is proposed. In order to manage, <br /> accommodate, and review mixed-use developments containing office, research, and <br /> manufacturing, the Planning Director has initiated a text amendment to the 0/1 <br /> (Office/Institutional) zoning district. The amendment proposes to: <br /> • Rename the 0/1 (Office/Institutional) zoning district to the O/RM (Office/Research and <br /> Manufacturing) zoning district. <br /> • Allow for additional principal uses to be permitted by right in the modified O/RM district. <br /> • Delete residential uses as a permitted use in the modified O/RM zoning district. <br /> • Delete tourist home as a permitted use in the modified O/RM zoning district. <br /> • Modify the existing assembly and packaging use type in Section 5.2, Table of Permitted <br /> Uses. <br /> • Create a new permitted use type, Research and Manufacturing Facility, to allow for <br />