HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 11-21-2011 - Quarterly Public HearingORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD
QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA
November 21, 2011
7:00 P.M.
Department of Social Services
Hillsborough Commons
113 Mayo Street
Hillsborough, North Carolina
NOTE: Information is
Available in the Planning
Department or the
Clerk's Office
NOTICE TO PEOPLE WITH IMPAIRED HEARING: Audio amplification equipment is
available on request. If you need this assistance, please call the County Clerk's
Office at (919) 245 -2130.
A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
B. PUBLIC CHARGE
The Board of Commissioners pledges to the citizens of Orange County its respect. The
Board asks its citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both
with the Board and with fellow citizens. At any time should any member of the Board or
any citizen fail to observe this public charge, the Chair will ask the offending member to
leave the meeting until that individual regains personal control. Should decorum fail to
be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine
commitment to this public charge is observed. All electronic devices such as cell
phones, pagers, and computers should please be turned off or set to silent/vibrate.
C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS
1. Carolina Friends School petition to modify an existing Class A Special Use
Permit to expand school operations at their facility at 4809 Friends School
Road — To review a developer - initiated application to rezone several parcels to a
Conditional Use Zoning classification and a Class A Special Use Permit application
seeking to expand existing school operations.
2. Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Map and Zoning Atlas Amendments —
To review government- initiated amendments to the Comprehensive Plan Land Use
Element Map and to the Zoning Atlas to assign land use category classifications and to
establish initial zoning for approximately 65 properties that will now be under Orange
County's planning jurisdiction as the result of the re- alignment of the Orange /Alamance
County Line as described within Session Law 2011 -88 (commonly referred to as the
'91 % line') enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly on May 25, 2011.
1 of 2
3. Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Map Amendment - To review a
government- initiated amendment to the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Map
to change the land use classification of approximately 47 -acres near Efland and
Brookhollow Road, along the south side of McGowan Creek from Agricultural
Residential to 10 -Year Transition.
4. Comprehensive Plan Text Amendments- To review government - initiated
amendments to the text of several sections of the Comprehensive Plan. The purpose of
the amendments is to correct many inconsistencies in the names of several land use
categories /classifications and terms as they are used throughout the document, as well
as to revise references to ordinances now incorporated in the adopted UDO.
5. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendments - To review
government- initiated amendments to the text of numerous sections of the UDO. The
amendments relate primarily to processes and standards regarding economic
development and also include minor changes necessary due to the Comprehensive
Plan Text Amendments proposed in #4 above.
D. ADJOURNMENT OF PUBLIC HEARING
2 of 2