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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD
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HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Regular Meeting – 7:00 pm
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1. CALL TO ORDER
2. 3 - 4 INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
a. Planning Calendar for July and August
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APPROVAL OF MINUTES
May 3, 2017 ORC Notes
May 3, 2017 Regular Meeting
4. CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA
5. PUBLIC CHARGE
Introduction to the Public Charge
The Board of County Commissioners, under the authority of North Carolina General Statute,
appoints the Orange County Planning Board (OCPB) to uphold the written land development
laws of the County. The general purpose of OCPB is to guide and accomplish coordinated and
harmonious development. OCPB shall do so in a manner which considers the present and
future needs of its residents and businesses through efficient and responsive process that
contributes to and promotes the health, safety, and welfare of the overall County. The OCPB
will make every effort to uphold a vision of responsive governance and quality public services
during our deliberations, decisions, and recommendations.
Public Charge
The Planning Board pledges to the residents of Orange County its respect. The Board asks
its residents to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board
and with fellow residents. At any time, should any member of the Board or any resident 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.
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SUMMARY NOTES 1 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 2 MAY 3, 2017 3 ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE 4
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NOTE: A quorum is not required for Ordinance Review Committee meetings. 6
7 MEMBERS PRESENT: Lydia Wegman (Chair), At-Large Chapel Hill Township Representative; Tony Blake (Vice-Chair), 8
Bingham Township Representative; Andrea Rohrbacher, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Buddy Hartley, Little River Township 9
Representative; Kim Piracci, At-Large; Randy Marshall, At-Large; Alexander Gregory, Chapel Hill Township Representative; 10
David Blankfard, Hillsborough Township Representative; 11 12 Members Present: Laura Nicholson, Eno Township Representative; Patricia Roberts, Cheeks Township Representative; Paul 13
Guthrie, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Donna Coffey, Cedar Grove Township Representative; 14
15 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Meredith Kern, 16
Administrative Assistant II. 17
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19 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 20
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Lydia Wegman called meeting to order. 22
23 24 AGENDA ITEM 2: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENTS – REORGANIZATION OF TABLES OF 25 PERMITTED USES 26
To continue review and discuss proposed amendments to the UDO that would reorganize the Tables of 27
Permitted Uses in response to the Byrd v. Franklin County judicial decision. 28 Presenter: Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor 29 30
Michael Harvey reviewed the abstract. 31
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Lydia Wegman: So it’s the American Planning Association? 33
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Michael Harvey: Yes. 35
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Lydia Wegman: And is that the one you’ve decided to use as the? 37
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Michael Harvey: We’re actually using the NAICS hybrid because the NAICS we’ve actually got in our EDD table, the NAICS 39
code was what was utilized to create the Economic Development District table of permitted uses in section 5.2.2. We don’t see 40
the need to deviate from it that much. The APA list is helping us to address some residential land uses because NAICS 41
obviously doesn’t care about residential, it’s a commercial code. There’s unnecessary duplication of information in the APA list 42
that makes it more cumbersome than NAICS. NAICS is just voluminous. APA’s listing actually gets convoluted and repeats 43
itself. 44
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Lydia Wegman: So you’re using NAICS? 46
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Michael Harvey: Yeah. The land use categories. 48
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Craig Benedict: We’re going to be able to get rid of 200 pages by collapsing. Michael, could you just go over one other thing 50
for the Board? The kind of general categories of what we’re going to be plugging all these different uses into. Tell them about 51
the permitted by right, permitted by Special Use. 52
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 54
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Craig Benedict: One other use type is Prohibited Use. 56
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Michael Harvey: Well, in those instances where you don’t see a hash tag, a B, an A, or any designation that means the use in 58
prohibited in that district. So for example, on Attachment 3, Agricultural Processing Facility, you’ll note that there’s nothing 59
checked in the rural buffer, the agriculture residential, the R1 or R2 zoning districts. That means it’s prohibited. You see check 60
marks in Agriculture Services, or AS, I1, I2, I3; those are our industrial districts. Those are the only four general districts you’re 61
allowed to have an agricultural processing facility. You’ll also notice it’s allowed within the AG Service Enterprise conditional 62
zone and the Master Plan conditional zone districts. But, that’s it. Everywhere else it’s prohibited. So if you don’t have a mark, 63
don’t have a note, don’t have squat in the box it’s prohibited. And there’s going to be language added to the UDO clarifying 64
that. 65
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Craig Benedict: And in the past we used to have it not listed at all and we said it’s prohibited, it’s not listed. Now we have to go 67
in there and list it and leave it blank. 68
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Michael Harvey: And I’ll just remind the Board we are not the only community in this predicament. Every town and county in 70
North Carolina is dealing and wrestling with the same issue. So it’s nothing unique or new. Now you can get into a 71
philosophical argument about whether or not we should have always been doing it this way, not Orange County but globally, 72
and that’s a waste of time because I can get ten lawyers in a room and they’re all going to have a different opinion about how 73
the Statute should have been interpreted so we’re beyond that, we’re fixing the problem. 74
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Michal Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 76
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Tony Blake: The one thing I noticed when I read through this was there’s no mention of wedding venues. 78
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Michael Harvey: That’s already covered under the retreat center definition. 80
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Tony Blake: It I covered under the retreat center but it’s not in the AG area. So what I’m wondering is there, given the pending 82
situation, I’m wondering if that is amiss, or is it intentional? 83
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Michael Harvey: I still believe that in fortune of the court, either the court or the general assembly is going to take that out of 85
our hands. 86
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Tony Blake: Ok, but I mean because it’s not listed there it’s permitted by right. 88
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Michael Harvey: No, it’s captured under the definition under retreat center, and because of that you have to be a retreat center 90
to do that type of activity. 91
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Tony Blake: Ok. 93
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Michael Harvey: We’re not going to list. It’s sort of like with recreation facilities; we’re not listing out every recreation facility, it’s 95
captured in the definition section of Article 10. And that is perfectly reasonable to list those uses there instead of just having… 96
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Tony Blake: So that’s like inaudible everything in NAICS code 721, for example. 98
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Michael Harvey: It picks up the uses we feel were necessary to incorporate into the UDO, yes. 100
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Tony Blake: Ok. 102
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Lydia Wegman: Can I go back one second? Do you see any concern with losing the conditional use process? 104
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Michael Harvey: No. It’s never been used in Orange County. It’s a convoluted process to begin with. It was never popular. It 106
was actually created several years ago to counter spot zoning as a hybrid. There were several court cases where it was 107
deemed to be “legal” but nobody, including the Institute government folks who were championing it, liked it. And it was 108
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determined that conditional zoning was a much better construct to do the same thing. Now, having said that there are uses in 109
here specifically that are only approvable through a conditional use permitting process. We’re going to have to change it to an 110
appropriate designation, whatever that is. 111
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 113
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Tony Blake: Where would a charging station for an electric car fall in that? 115
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Michael Harvey: I actually would call that as an accessory use. But that’s neither here nor there. 117
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Tony Blake: Well Tesla for sure has made it a thing. These rapid charging stations. 119
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Michael Harvey: I would actually call that an accessory use. It may be, and we’ll get to this example in a minute, but maybe 121
there’s a better way to handle that. So if you let me continue I can show you an example and gauge your reaction to it. 122
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David Blankfard: Madam Chair, I’m going to have to go; I’ve got a pet emergency. 124
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Lydia Wegman: Ok. Thank you David, I hope your pet is all right. 126
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Michael Harvey: David, I’ll reach out to you with some of the background effect. In fact, for the new members I’ll be reaching 128
out to you with links to where you can find some of the background information on this from the previous presentation so you 129
have it available to you. 130
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 132
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Lydia Wegman: Just one question. On the adult daycare facility there’s an asterisk under MPD conditional zoning. 134
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Michael Harvey: I threw that in there. We haven’t determined where they’re all going to be yet. I understand why you’re asking 136
but we haven’t come up with a comprehensive idea of where these would go yet. Or what process they should go through. For 137
example, you may not want adult daycare residential zoning districts without a Class B SUP. That’s something we’re still 138
wrestling with in terms of what we’re going to recommend to you all. But at least we want you all comfortable with the thought 139
process. 140
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Lydia Wegman: And one other question. There are a couple of C #’s. 142
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Michael Harvey: Yes, that’s conditional use. 144
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Craig Benedict: One other thing. When you’re reviewing this if you think a use, such as adult daycare facility, might be of two 146
different intensities meaning one where it’s just daycare and one is overnight care and you think it should be split into two 147
areas and maybe an overnight facility fits in certain categories and it doesn’t fit in other categories. 148
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Michael Harvey: Well actually Craig, all due respect, we already have that. And that’s the family care home and group care 150
facility and residential. We’ve also dealt with assisted living facilities, which would include assisted living, nursing care, 151
congregate care, and residential as well. We put the daycare just for that day because we have other land uses dealing with 152
overnight or longer-term accommodation issues. 153
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Craig Benedict: So are they in a different category than care and education? 155
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Michael Harvey: Yes. And the reason being is because it’s residential in nature. 157
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Lydia Wegman: I do feel like it should say human care and educational facilities for child and adult care, because someone 159
could say dog care. 160
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Michael Harvey: Well, the definitions of these are for people. We have kennel operations in this ordinance that will be dealing 162
with animals, pets. We have existing land use categories addressing the care of animals. 163
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Kim Piracci: So you just feel like to say human care is redundant? 165
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Michael Harvey: My opinion, yes. It doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea, but my opinion it’s redundant. It’s not something I don’t 167
mind looking at but I think with the definition structure we have it’s becomes apparent quickly that this is for the care of the 168
elderly, or the care of children, or the care… 169
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Kim Piracci: What if we haven’t gotten to animals or shelter or whatever yet? I mean, to me it’s not that obvious. 171
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Michael Harvey: Ok, you’re entitled to your opinion. 173
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Tony Blake: I tend to agree, but that’s just me. What would… 175
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Kim Piracci: So, I mean is there not room for discussion on it? If two of us are feeling the same way… 177
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Michael Harvey: There is room for discussion but I think that... 179
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Kim Piracci: You’re not going to change your mind. 181
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Tony Blake: No, we’re not going to change his mind. 183
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Michael Harvey: I think that you are losing sight of the fact that there are specific sections dealing with the care of animal 185
independent of this. I think that’ you’re forgetting the fact that we have definitions that will be defining this is what these 186
activities entail, where it’s spelled out that this is for care for people. I think that if I’m too add human here then that to me is 187
redundant and unnecessary. There’s not education facilities for dogs. That’s why we have the kennel. 188
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Kim Piracci: It’s one word in one spot. 190
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Randy Marshall: But if you’ve got… If you’re looking at care and facilities here and you look at definitions it’s talking about not 192
animals. There’s this whole different section about animals, so I don’t think it’s a problem. 193
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Michael Harvey: If this Board wants to vote to recommend adding the word human and that’s your recommendation I’ll 195
certainly add it. But I think it’s redundant and unnecessary. You have my opinion, you can disagree with me, and this body can 196
certainly vote to say add the word human and I will honor that request. 197
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Lydia Wegman: Just a better option would be if you felt it was appropriate to say child and adult care. To me, the use of the 199
word human is quite awkward. 200
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Kim Piracci: It’s weird. It’s awkward. It is awkward. 202
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Lydia Wegman: Yeah. If the desire is to make it clear it’s for humans I would just say child and adult. 204
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Michael Harvey: Well, one of the reasons I eliminated child is because care becomes universal. It’s just not about child or 206
adult. It’s care and education. 207
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Lydia Wegman: I’m just saying, you have a list of adult daycare, child daycare facilities, so it would not necessarily be 211
inappropriate if there’s a strong feeling that… 212
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Michael Harvey: So, I’m hearing there’s a strong feeling to add the word child and adult care and educational facilities. 214
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Tony Blake: My view is either eliminating it from the subtext or add that something clarifying to the top. 216
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Michael Harvey: I can’t eliminate adult daycare, childcare. I can’t eliminate that. So is there then a recommendation requesting 218
the Planning Board to add the term child/adult care and educational facilities to the use category definition? 219
220 MOTION by Kim Piracci to add the language suggested. Seconded by Lydia Wegman. 221 VOTE: 4 – 3 OPPOSED (ALEXANDER GREGORY, ANDREA ROHRBACHER, BUDDY HARTLEY) 222
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 226
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Tony Blake: What was the one example? Was that Del Centro? 228
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Michael Harvey: Well I don’t even think Del Centro would be a good example. It was supposed to be this… It was supposed to 230
be a cooperative where there would be shared access to materials, which again didn’t make any sense to me. It’s a school or 231
it’s not a school. The fact that you’re not going to allow schools to share materials I think gets a little bit into the minutia of 232
you’re telling a school they can’t share a book. So you don’t need to have some arbitrary land use category for that purpose. 233
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Tony Blake: Yeah, it seems like a clumsy way to try to get something… 235
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Michael Harvey: Yeah. And the problem is I don’t know what it was originally trying to get in the first place. There was an 237
intention. A long time ago. I don’t know what that intention is anymore. 238
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Randy Marshall: If you had non profit groups that were trying to help non reading adults learn how to read literacy… would that 240
be under the definition of non profit education inaudible? 241
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Michael Harvey: Not under the current definition. I would actually call that a school. Where we have school, exam prep, 243
tutoring, language, driving. I would actually say it’d fall under that category versus a non-profit education cooperative. Let me 244
just interject something real quick, some of the older Board members will know this: the County’s Attorney’s office has been 245
incredibly anxious to eliminate references to profit and non-profit. You cannot base and shouldn’t be basing land use decisions 246
on the for profit or non for profit status of an organization or an operation. It either is permitted because of its activity or not. It 247
shouldn’t be permitted because it’s non-profit and then prohibited because it’s profit. So we are eliminating as best we can 248
land use decisions based on ownership or based on tax status. 249
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Randy Marshall: So school could be profit or non-profit? 251
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Michael Harvey: Private or public, yes sir. Yeah, we do not distinguish, currently. In fact we’ve added language or are 253
recommending language be added to make sure that distinction, that it’s either public or private. We don’t discriminate. 254
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Randy Marshall: So anywhere you teach is considered a school. 256
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Michael Harvey: Anywhere you teach where you are offering a curriculum based on the State of North Carolina standards 258
curriculum where you can achieve a diploma is listed as a school; elementary, middle, and secondary public or private. A 259
school where you’re doing exam prep, where you’re doing tutoring, where you’re teaching language, or driving is a school that 260
falls into that category and will be allowed in several districts. 261
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Randy Marshall: What about my example of adult literacy, which is not leading toward a diploma, it’s trying to help somebody 263
who’s got to be 35 and can’t read? 264
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Michael Harvey: Right, from my stand point that would fall into either school, the school; exam prep, tutoring, language, driving 266
example, or it could even fall into the school; vocational, business, community, trade, junior, or technical. Depending on the 267
aspect of the teaching it could fall into either one. 268
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Tony Blake: Doesn’t the library do a lot of that? Wouldn’t that make the library a school? 270
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Michael Harvey: No. 272
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Buddy Hartley: I think that would be about the same thing as the 21 year old that wants to learn how to drive. 274
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Michael Harvey: Well it doesn’t make the school a driving school but you can’t have a private driving school. The library’s still 276
a library if it’s offering a programmatic service. It’s like the government, and this is a really bad example but it’s the one I’m 277
going to give. The government doesn’t become a movie theater because it has a community open house where they show a 278
movie. A library doesn’t become a movie theater for the same reason. So you don’t lose that principal status. This building has 279
language classes in it, as an example, so it doesn’t turn this into a school. It is a program service offered by the government in 280
terms of its operational parameters to provide services to the public. I will clarify sir where adult literacy, adult education would 281
go in this context so that it’s spelled out a little better. 282
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Randy Marshall: Well, you know, some cases there were retired educators who want to try to help people who do not know 284
how to read. 285
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Michael Harvey: Right. So the other thing I want to call everyone’s attention to: schools; elementary, middle, and secondary; 287
public or private. You’ll note under the Economic Development Eno 1 and I’ve got a footnote there, 15. Everybody see that? 288
I’m going to pick on Kim for a second. What do you see with those land uses? School. 289
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Kim Piracci: Schools, elementary, middle, and secondary. 291
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Michael Harvey: Yes ma’am, that whole column. What I’m getting at is everywhere in the county it’s required to be a Class A 293
SUP. Except for some reason Economic Development Eno zoning district. 294
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Kim Piracci: And that’s the way it exists now? 296
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Michael Harvey: Yes ma’am. 298
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Kim Piracci: And so you’re trying to change it? 300
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Michael Harvey: We’re going to change it to an A. So schools are treated the same in every zoning district. It doesn’t make 302
any sense to us. We have other examples of that in the code. Cemeteries are another example. I’ll get to that in a few 303
minutes. It’s a Class B SUP in every residential zoning district in the county with one notable exception. And I can’t for the life 304
of me figure out why. 305
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Tony Blake: Where was the last school built? Was that in Eno? 307
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Craig Benedict: Probably Gravelly Hill. Inaudible in an economic development zone. 309
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Michael Harvey: Buckhorn. And that went through a Class B SUP process. 311
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Michael Harvey: The charter’s in Hillsborough’s jurisdiction. And they went through; I think they went through a SUP process 315
as well. 316
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Craig Benedict: The only reason this in Eno is we were trying to match up to the Durham zoning code in case it was annexed. 318
And so sometimes if it’s permitted by right over there maybe we permitted it by right, I’d have to check. That might have been 319
some sort of inaudible. It doesn’t have to be that way. It could be a special use on our side and if it ever gets annexed that 320
they fix the zoning inaudible. 321
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Michael Harvey: You’ll note when we get down further with schools it used to read that school’s vocational. We’ve expanded 323
that list pretty dramatically so as to make sure that we’re not eliminating somebody’s concept of what a vocational school 324
would be. So it’s vocational, business, community, trade, junior college, and technical. 325
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Randy Marshall: Should we add preschool to elementary, middle, and secondary? 327
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Michael Harvey: Well that’s not a bad idea. My response to you though is that a preschool is technically a component of that 329
land use categories defined by the state. Preschools are typically the function, or used as a function in an elementary school. 330
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Randy Marshall: Well there are preschools that stand-alone. 332
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Michael Harvey: I’m not disagreeing with you, but it’s part of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system. 334
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Randy Marshall: Well what I’m saying is that elementary doesn’t necessarily mean, doesn’t include preschool. 336
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Michael Harvey: We can add it. Again, it’s not a bad idea, I’m giving you my reaction as well. We can add preschool, that’s not 338
a problem and obviously we’re going to be making sure we’re using a term that is recognized by the state for that so that 339
nobody can claim we’re doing… 340
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Randy Marshall: Right now I think it’s mostly 3 and 4 year olds that come to preschool. 342
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Craig Benedict: Randy, where would you think the inaudible 1:03:31 concept would fit now? It’s not really a junior college yet. 344
Is it like 11th/12th grade but not considered a secondary? Middle college? 345
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Randy Marshall: I think they’re taking courses, inaudible or technical courses, but I think it’s still considered secondary. 347
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Michael Harvey: And that would actually, Craig, go to the State definition and I would trust your view of that more than mine 349
because of your background, but I think it’s actually covered in the definition of the State component for what constituents an 350
allowable secondary school. 351
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Randy Marshall: Well if you never received a high school diploma I think you’re probably still considered a high school student. 353
Secondary. 354
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Michael Harvey: So again, school’s under vocational, we’ve expanded that use. Not only coupled components from NAICS but 356
also the APA list. So where we felt the need we obviously stole from both. Here’s a question and yeah, Tony’s correct, the 357
footnote for some reason is on the next page, I apologize, but universities, colleges, and institutes. I’m at a loss to explain why 358
we require Class A SUP for elementary, middle, and secondary and not require the same for universities, colleges, and 359
institutes. There is one caveat to that but in the State of North Carolina I can’t regulate it anyway. Do you all have any 360
thoughts about that? We were going to be recommending it become a SUP with the understanding that if it is UNC, if it is a 361
State institution, local zoning is more that likely preempted anyway. But for a private college or private institute we didn’t 362
necessarily believe going this permitted by right with no public involvement, no review was vile. 363
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Lydia Wegman: I agree. 365
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Michael Harvey: But everyone understands. Well, again, I’m not trying to insult your intelligence. Everyone understands the 367
conundrum I’m going to find myself in when UNC says we’re doing this here? 368
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Lydia Wegman: We do. 370
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Tony Blake: The question I had about that whole thing was sort of, UNC is so expansive they have an animal care facility for 372
research; does that fall in this category or does that fall under? 373
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Michael Harvey: Craig? You and I, Frank Clifton, John Roberts... 375
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Craig Benedict: For that research facility? 377
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Michael Harvey: It was a research facility. But… Well, here’s why I’m pulling Craig’s memory. We actually initiated an 379
enforcement action against them and I had to rescind that enforcement action. I think because it was State. 380
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Michael Harvey: We initiated from the enforcement standpoint on the land use component but I think their argument at the 384
time was we are a state entity, it was part of the college operation and therefore it was exempt, because they didn’t do 385
classes. Is that your recollection? 386
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Craig Benedict: Yeah. 388
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Michael Harvey: So in that instance, yeah, they would be exempt. 390
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Lydia Wegman: So they’re exempt from pollution control? 392
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Michael Harvey: No, but they’re exempt from my land use provisions. 394
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Tony Blake: A dear got involved. 396
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Michael Harvey: Remember that all this is is do I have to take them through a land use permitting process. Which doesn’t 398
mean they don’t have to comply, but let’s be candid, a State institution is going to be complying with State Erosion Control 399
Storm water guidelines, not local. A State institution’s going to be complying with State Waste Water Permitting Processes, 400
not local. So I hate to say it but you get what you get. 401
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Craig Benedict: There’s one other in here because we had a proposal for an athletic school, like Nick Bollettieri’s tennis school 403
where they actually taught class and played tennis so I don’t know where that… Maybe it’s the schools dance or maybe we 404
could put schools athletic. 405
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Michael Harvey: I wonder if it would be covered under gymnastics but we could certainly add the term athletic. 407
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Tony Blake: So if a school had a facility that was non-educational that would fall under a different category entirely than this 409
one, right? 410
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Michael Harvey: Give me an example. 412
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Tony Blake: The record center on 54. 414
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Michael Harvey: Well from my standpoint I think that the oddest answer to your question is that would still be considered part 416
of the UNC facility, under that umbrella. I know you’re trying to give that as an example of how… 417
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Tony Blake: Take UNC out of it, if it was a private college would that fall under an educational category or under a… 419
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Michael Harvey: I would say it would still fall under educational because if the primary mode of operation is the support of the 421
operation of the school but it would still have to be approved through the appropriate SUP process under this construct. Now 422
let’s take that to the next question. If you have a storage facility where UNC rents a couple of lockers does that mean that 423
becomes a school? The answer’s no because it’s storage. But if UNC or DUKE comes to Orange County builds a warehouse 424
for the storage of documentation that is an extension of Duke University it would require, as we’re reconfiguring here, a Class 425
A SUP as a private institution. 426
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Tony Blake: Ok. 428
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Kim Piracci: So, I’m not sure, I’m asking. Do you remember 10 maybe 12 years back UNC Chapel Hill was putting a lot of 430
energy into Carolina North and that has since inaudible. 431
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Michael Harvey: They dumped the money, correct. 433
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Kim Piracci: Oh, it’s about them having the money? 435
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Michael Harvey: And a few other permitting issues, yeah. 437
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Kim Piracci: So permitting issues. So is that Chapel Hill the town of permitting issues? 439
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Michael Harvey: Yes ma’am it’s in their jurisdiction, but they’re permitting issues I think is not necessarily with the Town, it was 441
with the State. And it was with funding, and there were several other issues associated, also with closing Horris Williams. So it 442
was the perfect storm of an amalgamation of a bunch of different issues all rolled into one. But you are correct. It’s in Chapel 443
Hill’s jurisdiction. There was a SUP process involved. 444
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Craig Benedict: A developers agreement was put together, which is State laws allow inaudible even discuss the developers 446
agreement program… It’s something like conditional zoning. You come up with a list that you’re going to build in this time 447
frame and here are the conditions so its another hybrid allowed by state, well not used that much, but it was used for Carolina 448
North. 449
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Kim Piracci: So none of that informs this or it all informs this saying this is out of your jurisdiction. 451
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Michael Harvey: Correct. It would be subject to Chapel Hill and obviously to the state. 453
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Kim Piracci: But if they decided to do it somewhere. 455
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Michael Harvey: In Orange County, I can guarantee what we’d be faced with is the argument of, “Well we’re exempt, we might 457
partner with you and try to be nice and work with you, but you’re going to do it on our terms”, which is kind of how, in the 12 458
years I’ve been working here with Craig, that’s usually what happens with us and UNC. 459
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Randy Marshall: That raises the question that you hear from the legislature is that they don’t want us at the local level doing 461
anything. 462
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Michael Harvey: We’re finding that out painfully everyday. 464
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Randy Marshall: How do you see that proceeding, in terms of the kinds of things that we’re trying to do here? Are conflicts 466
implied in terms of what the legislature is trying to whole sway over or? 467
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Michael Harvey: Well I’ll get philosophical for a moment and say this: Obviously our power to do this, to regulate land use, is 469
given by the State. They obviously have the power to limit that. I think that we are well within our legal rights to establish 470
reasonable regulation on land uses and the state has a reasonable right to say you can’t do this to a state institution. You 471
can’t do it to private institutions but their view is since we are the state we ultimately have the peoples best interest at heart so 472
we don’t need you being big brother to us, we’re your big brother. And we’re going to do it our way because we know better 473
than you. And ultimately, in all my dealings in 20 years as a planner in North Carolina, that’s been the mantra. 474
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Randy Marshall: But the bigger question seems to be, for instance they don’t want local jurisdictions to provide better 476 inaudible to employees, or wage increases, or whatever and the state is trying to restrict those. Could they go so far as to say 477
there will be no land use ordinances of the local level, everything is free and open as far as the state… 478
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Michael Harvey: Yes. They could certainly do that. I honestly don’t think we’re going to get there because. 480
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Tony Blake: So the charging stations are treated like a kiosk? 486
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Michael Harvey: Yeah. 488
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Lydia Wegman: Under offices? 490
491
Michael Harvey: No. inaudible. So if you’re comfortable with that I can try it out and let you all see it. 492
493 unknown 1:22:07: Could I back up for a second? Under salvage yard does that include recycling centers? 494
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Michael Harvey: Recycling center’s actually covered elsewhere in this section. Let’s continue to go through and if not let me 496
make a note so I can answer your question. 497
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Tony Blake: So one question I had about the contractors is a number of them do on site fabrication of things where they 499
actually assemble something and put it together and is that a separate category or is that always allowed? Especially the 500
HVAC guys. 501
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Michael Harvey: My initial reaction is it should be covered under manufacturing versus the office of. 503
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Tony Blake: Oh, ok, this is the bookkeeping and all that? 505
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Michael Harvey: Yeah. 507
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Lydia Wegman: I’m sorry, you have two categories that you’ve created, two different ones for bank settings and credit union 509
with or without an ATM. Is that because of the cars? 510
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Michael Harvey: Yeah. You may have districts where you don’t care if there’s a bank but you may not want an ATM. 512
513 unknown 1:23:34: Where do drive ins as a general category fit? Or are they all distributed under a particular type of drive in? 514
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Michael Harvey: Well that’s a loaded question. That unfortunately has a lot of history in this county when it comes to drive ins. 516
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Unknown: That’s why I asked the question. 518
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Michael Harvey: I think that the honest answer is that we broke it out here specifically to try to determine if there were 520
locations generally zoning districts or other districts where, yes, you might want to have a bank but you didn’t want a drive up 521
ATM. We currently prohibit drive trough’s in the Efland Cheeks overlay district along highway 70 going towards Mebane and 522
there was a prohibition the Hillsborough Economic Development district prohibiting drive through facilities, period, which was 523
eliminated last fall. Typically I would argue to you that a drive through, say for a retail center if it’s a dry cleaner, or if it’s a 524
pharmacy, is an accessory permitted use. I don’t distinguish in here, other than the ATM, because I’ve had commissioners 525
complain about… We may want a bank in the neighborhood commercial zoning district but we’re not going to have a drive 526
through. Ok, this is one way to try to address that. 527
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Randy Marshall: So rather than having a separate item in the UDO for drive-thrus you are placing those within the different 529
commercial categories 530
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Michael Harvey: There are those areas that I’m saying can’t have it and trying to keep mum on the rest, to be honest, because 532
I don’t want to get into the micro management of. Restaurants is another prime example, we’ll get into it in a minute. We 533
originally had four categories of restaurants. James Bryan and I decided it might be a good idea to just collapse that into just 534
one category, say restaurants. And then say you can have a restaurant in this zoning district without a drive through. And then 535
that gets basically the same standard here, as a way to try to simplify some of this. Make it a little easier. 536
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Randy Marshall: It seems like to me we need to be specific as possible because there’s nothing that fires up neighborhoods 538
any faster than somebody proposing a drive through anywhere within five miles of them. 539
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Michael Harvey: Well, to be honest, there’s nothing that fires up one or two of our elected officials like the term drive through. 541
We actually proposed a text amendment 2008 and Craig and I went to meetings for two years on establishing drive through 542
standards and the issue was prohibit them everywhere, regulate them as follows, only allow them for certain uses, and we had 543
to go through the Economic Development Commission, County Commissioners, this Board, and after two years we didn’t have 544
an ordinance. 545
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Randy Marshall: So it’s just easier to put them into different commercial categories as opposed to inaudible as a major 547
category? 548
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Michael Harvey: More or less. 550
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 552
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Kim Piracci: So the way this is written now they would be able to frack in the county? 554
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Michael Harvey: Well this way this is written now, legally, somebody could go in through with a SUP process and engage in a 556
fracking operation. Right now it’s allowed. State law preempts us from having a regulation that is deemed to be overly 557
prohibitive to say you can’t do it. And that’s probably what somebody would argue and we’d probably lose. 558
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Kim Piracci: Quick and easy, there are places in California localities define more senior. 560
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Michael Harvey: The only saving grace is that when you actually look at deposits, we’ve got nothing. 562
563
Craig Benedict: Michael, the quarry that does some processing on site, we took that through… 564
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Tony Blake: I was going to ask about American Stone because does that qualify as processing when they’re making? 566
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Michael Harvey: No, because all they’re taking rock and making small rock. They’re not turning it into asphalt. 568
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Randy Marshall: But there is an asphalt plant. Is it grandfathered in? 570
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Michael Harvey: Not at American Stone on 54. There used to be one on 57 going towards Person. That burned down and for 572
the last 12 years every three years we send a note to the State telling them that there cannot be an asphalt plant at that facility 573
because it’s inconsistent with out ordinance. 574
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Randy Marshall: Well I seem to recall when I was on the Town board that there was an asphalt plant. There was a lot of 576
concern about it. Just outside of Carrboro’s jurisdiction. 577
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Craig Benedict: That was closed down and not able to be re-opened. 579
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Michael Harvey: And we actually cover asphalt plants differently elsewhere on this. Now also remember though that under 581
state law and even under our own ordinance there are uses permitted by right in every zoning district. One of them is listed in 582
article 5, section 5.1 2. Uses permitted as a matter of right, bona fide farms is one, barrow pits… I actually thought there was 583
something in here about bash plant concrete plant associated with a highway project. 584
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 586
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Randy Marshall: Is that where your recycling centers would come in? 588
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Michael Harvey: Yes. That’s our convenient centers. And there’s also a recycling land use category in this document. Any 590
questions on that one? 591
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Randy Marshall: Yeah. Why wouldn’t you allow a fire station in LC1? 593
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Michael Harvey: Inaudible. Because it’s currently not allowed and I did do anything with it to be blunt. That’s the best answer. 595
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Tony Blake: And I would thin that they would be permitted in the Economic Districts as well. 597
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 599
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Tony Blake: Where would wet labs and things like that fall? 601
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Michael Harvey: Research. 603
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Tony Blake: Ok. 605
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 607
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Michael Harvey: Any questions on manufacturing? 609
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Randy Marshall: I can’t remember the name of the old furniture place off of Old Greensboro Highway. Hill Country. Is that non-611
compliant? 612
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Michael Harvey: Hill Country Woodworks is zoned existing commercial 5. I would actually say that it is right now conforming as 614
retail and light manufacturing and it would be allowed in this same construct because it’s not a land use we want to prohibit. 615
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Tony Blake: They do have a showroom. 617
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Michael Harvey: Yeah. 619
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Randy Marshall: I guess I’m still confused. Furniture manufacturing similar processing, that’s exactly what they do, but they’re 621
not in. 622
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Michael Harvey: No, there’s no checkmark in EC5, only because I took this directly from the Economic Development Design 624
table so we’re going to be adding that to make sure they’re still making form, we’re not looking to make non-conforming uses. 625
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Randy Marshall: Ok, so another dot would put here. 627
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Michael Harvey: Yeah, another dot would be put here. And I appreciate you bringing that to my attention but just as a reminder 629
we didn’t want to get overly dot crazy because it’s already confusing as it is. The dots would make it even more interesting. 630
631
Craig Benedict: We haven’t made all the determinations. We’re just trying to get the general categories. 632
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Michael Harvey: Yeah, because if you all don’t like the categories then I got to go back to the drawing board a little bit. 634
635
Lydia Wegman: Got it. 636
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Craig Benedict: Yeah, we may put in there SUP A for a certain one to be determined so we’re just trying to get the general 638
categories, incorporate what has been somewhere in our existing code because the commissioners are going to want to know 639
it was there before and it’s not there now or the opposite. For these new categories we’re going to have to populate them with 640
dots. 641
642
Tony Blake: You have watches but not jewelry. Is that? 643
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Michael Harvey: That’s under miscellaneous manufacturing. 645
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Tony Blake: Sorry. 647
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Michael Harvey: No, no, you’re fine. These are the kind of questions we need because if you can’t see it then… The next is 649
medical uses. Kim, you and Tony both asked this question about health services. Doctor’s office, dentist’s office. This is health 650
services. The reason we kept it separate is because it’s already in that land use category and much of the same way we’re 651
going to handle restaurants it’s going to be based on square footage because that’s the current standard. We don’t want to ge t 652
into a level of minutia with dentists can only go here or there, it’s a medical use. So the definition says here’s the list and it’s 653
going to be based on square footages. So in certain districts we might allow a medical doctors office but it may be no more 654
than 10,000 square feet or 15,000 square feet where in other districts the only limit is the practical development limitations, 655
i.e., setbacks, parking, impervious surface, whatnot. 656
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Lydia Wegman: So the UDO will say what is permitted? 658
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Michael Harvey: Yeah. 660
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Lydia Wegman: In each district? 662
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Michael Harvey: Yeah, that’s going to be in article 5. 664
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Tony Blake: So more and more I’m seeing medical facilities combined with the pharmacy and a lab. Is there some? I see a lot 666
of things in here that might be pulled into one facility and so then the dots start to make a difference if one is permitted in one 667
and … 668
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Michael Harvey: Well the principal use as a pharmacy is an example. And they have a small laboratory. I would consider that 670
a customary accessory use to the pharmacy, whereas you could have, and this goes to this existing land use category. 671
Medical and diagnostic laboratory with or without research facilities, this is something where it’s not a pharmacy, it is a lab, 672
and we don’t want to distinguish between research and non-research. It’s a medical or diagnostic laboratory. We’re going to 673
list that as a permitted use. It could or could not have a research facility. That is that persons call. 674
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Craig Benedict: What you’re saying is correct, how they’re starting to co-mingle uses. We worked on that office research 676
manufacturing… Because it used to be the warehouse used to be there, the manufacture… Inaudible. 677
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Lydia Wegman: So Michael, pharmacy is part of health services? 679
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Michael Harvey: Well pharmacy actually would come under… It could come under health services if it’s like a Walgreens it 681
would come under retail. 682
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Tony Blake: Right. And so that’s where. 684
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Lydia Wegman: And what about a compounding pharmacy? 686
687
Michael Harvey: That would come under health services. 688
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Tony Blake: That’s where it gets a little sticky. 690
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Lydia Wegman: Right. Because there are places that are just pharmacies. 692
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Tony Blake: Right. And it’s the same thing with the dentist. Some of them have on-site manufacturing of bridges and crowns, 694
and some don’t, some send it out, and some are stand-alone. 695
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Randy Marshall: How about the eye doctor? 697
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Michael Harvey: Same thing. 699
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Tony Blake: Same thing, with eyeglasses. 701
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Randy Marshall: This would seem to indicate that doctors and dentists couldn’t have in home practices. 703
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Michael Harvey: That’s actually handled as a home occupation, which is allowed elsewhere in the code. So if you’re a dentist, 705
or if you’re a doctor, or you’re an attorney and you want to work out of your home there’s a totally separate independent 706
process you get to go through. 707
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Randy Marshall: Ok. 709
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Michael Harvey: So next we have recreational. This goes back to a comment I made earlier about profit/non-profit. We’re 711
eliminating the term public out of parks. Why? Because a park is a park is a park is a park. We shouldn’t really distinguish. 712
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Kim Piracci: There’s no such thing as private parks? 714
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Michael Harvey: There is. That’s why we’re eliminating public. It’s a park. I mean, if you develop, like TLC has several private, 716
what I would call, rec parks. They’re a park. There’s no inherent difference between that facility and the one the government 717
did. 718
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Kim Piracci: In terms on zoning. 720
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Michael Harvey: Right. 722
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Tony Blake: Parks have almost become a commodity now. They’re including pocket parks to meet leads, for example. Or 724
some green certification. 725
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Lydia Wegman: Do parks have to be open to the public? 727
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Michael Harvey: In this context, under recreational, yes. This is a park that is providing a service. 729
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Lydia Wegman: So that needs to be clear and definite. 731
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Michael Harvey: In the definition I think we’re going to handle it as open to the public but the term public here… 733
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Lydia Wegman: I understand, but just as long as it’s clear and definite… But I do think it needs to be clear that a park is open 735
to the public. 736
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Michael Harvey: We can add some clarification to the definition. 738
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Michael Harvey: So residential is going to be the next land use category. As you recall we amended the ordinance to allow 742
campgrounds. We have to spell out specifically with them without recreational vehicles. Dwellings we kept the same. Family 743
group care we kept the same because that’s defined by State law. Health and personal care facility. This is where we’ve 744
lumped in your assisted care, live in facility, congregate care, nursing home; everything in one fell swoop. We’re just not 100% 745
sure where we’re going to put them yet. There’s a concern from the County’s Attorney’s office we have to list out specifically 746
recreational vehicle. We don’t believe we do, but we want to get something out of their office so we put it in. 747
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Kim Piracci: What would be an example of that? 749
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Michael Harvey: Well their concern is if we don’t list it that means anybody could put a recreational vehicle on a parcel of 751
property and live out of it and it’s permitted by right because it’s not listed. And I disagree with that but I’m erring on the side of 752
caution because I’ve got to get this out of the County Attorney’s office. 753
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Tony Blake: I can think of places where it’s already occurring. 755
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Michael Harvey: We’ve also expanded, modified the existing land use category temporary mobile home or residential unit. 757
This is those situations where if you’re building a house you need to live on your property temporarily we’re going to give you 758
an opportunity to use either a mobile home or a RV, but it’s got to go within 90 days. And we have talked about that as part of 759
the amendment to the home park and we were not allowed to do the amendment at that time, so we’re doing it now. 760
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Tony Blake: So the 30 days has a strike then? 762
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Michael Harvey: Yeah, we’re taking out 30 days because we had a conflict in the ordinance. This provision said 30 days, the 764
ordinance actually says 90. And if you think about it, you’ve got to have somebody come get a mobile home, you’ve got to 765
move out a mobile home, 30 days is a little unrealistic. So we were trying to give a little more flexibility. 766
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Tony Blake: Yeah, well there’s nothing that would prevent somebody from driving their RV around the block and putting it 768
back. 769
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Lydia Wegman: Michael, what’s a personal care facility? 771
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Michael Harvey: You mean health and personal care facilities? 773
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Lydia Wegman: I do. 775
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Michael Harvey: That is an overall term where we’ve lumped in nursing home, assisted living, congregate care all in one 777
central category. 778
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Lydia Wegman: I’m just saying the term personal care? 780
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Michael Harvey: We stole that from APA to be honest. I also need to create a distinction between health care as listed under 782
medical uses so we were trying to come with... I needed there to be a distinction. 783
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Tony Blake: So would health and private care describe that? 785
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Michael Harvey: Check vernacular. We can do that. 787
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 789
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Craig Benedict: How about rural special events? 791
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Michael Harvey: That’s actually under miscellaneous. 793
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Tony Blake: I know what you’re going to do about the signs though. 795
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Michael Harvey: Sign ordinance? That’s going to have to be done for February of next year. That’s going to be even worse 797
than this… Utilities. We haven’t played with that a lot yet because I don’t think we have good direction from the elected 798
officials on how they want to handle alternative energy, like wind turbines, so we’ve used the catch all category for now. And 799
we’ll probably come up with some recommendations in the way of text amendment once we get to that. 800
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Tony Blake: Isn’t this better regulated from… Because it seems like it’s permitted just about everywhere. Isn’t it better 802
regulated through a technical specification? 803
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Michael Harvey: Well there’s that, there’s also an argument that we’re technically preempted from regulating some of this 805
anyway. 806
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Kim Piracci: Really? 808
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Michael Harvey: Yeah. 810
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Tony Blake: Because you’re interfering possibly with commerce or interstate commerce. 812
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Michael Harvey: Or you’re interfering with a power company who’s got a license from the state to provide an essential public 814
service. This came up when we were doing the PSNC gas line. We required them to go through the SUP process. They 815
pitched a fit but did it because they didn’t want to have the argument. But the public hearing was a free for all. And the Board 816
of Adjustment didn’t like that much. 817
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Randy Marshall: The rights of way falls under this category? 819
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Michael Harvey: Rights of way, from my stand point, don’t fall under this category because it’s not a utility, it’s a… Right of way 821
is the granting of usage rights. So you could grant a right for drive access, that’s your personal business. The state condemns 822
property under state law and establishes a public right of way for ingress, egress for commands of vehicular traffic. That’s not 823
a regulated land use activity from this ordinance standpoint, but we can’t regulate where DOT puts roads, for an example. 824
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Randy Marshall: So what you just said was that power line right of way and gas line right of ways are state regulated and 826
not… 827
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Michael Harvey: That’s what we’re thinking we’re going to get hit with, yes. 829
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Randy Marshall: Ok. What about a fire tower? 831
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Michael Harvey: Well depending on who erects it I would call that a government protective service land use. If the County 833
erects it, to me, it’s a government protected service and a training operation that’s a government facility. If a fire department 834
erects it I’d consider it a customary inaudible use. 835
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 837
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Tony Blake: These landfills would be private landfills? 839
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Michael Harvey: Yes. The government cannot require or compel itself to get a SUP. 841
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Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 843
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Randy Marshall: What about the person that wants to develop a family cemetery on their large property to prevent 845
development? 846
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Michael Harvey: That could happen to because there are some special standards governing well placement from interred 848
remains. We have a family cemetery in Amherst, Virginia and the farm that it’s on was sold. We actually subdivided 10-acres 849
out of the farm and it’s now in the family trust and that’s where a lot of my relatives are interred, but we then set up some very 850
specific maintenance responsibilities and list out how we can amend this, who gets to do what, so that we know that the 851
graves are protected… Also remember under State law County commissioners ultimately have responsibilities for cemeteries, 852
in most circumstances, unless they’re municipally owned, developed, maintained. So technically if you find a grave, private 853
cemetery of 10, 15, gravesites under the Graves Act County Commissioners have some ultimate responsibility to deal with 854
that. 855
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MINUTES 1 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 2 MAY 3, 2017 3
REGULAR MEETING 4 5
6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Lydia Wegman (Chair), At-Large Chapel Hill Township Representative; Tony Blake (Vice-7
Chair), Bingham Township Representative; Andrea Rohrbacher, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Buddy Hartley, Little 8
River Township Representative; Kim Piracci, At-Large; Randy Marshall, At-Large; Alexander Gregory, Chapel Hill 9
Township Representative; David Blankfard, Hillsborough Township Representative; 10 11 Members Present: Laura Nicholson, Eno Township Representative; Patricia Roberts, Cheeks Township 12
Representative; Paul Guthrie, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Donna Coffey, Cedar Grove Township Representative; 13
14 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Meredith Kern, 15
Administrative Assistant II 16
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AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 18 19
Lydia Wegman called the meeting to order. 20
21 AGENDA ITEM 2: INFORMATIONAL ITEMS 22
a) Planning Calendar for January and February 23
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AGENDA ITEM 4: APPROVAL OF MINUTES 25
February 1, 2017 Meeting Minutes 26
February 1, 2017 ORC Notes 27 28 MOTION by Lydia Wegman to approve the February 1, 2017 Planning Board minutes and ORC Notes. 29
VOTE: UNANIMOUS 30
31 32 AGENDA ITEM 4. CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA 33 34
No additions to Agenda 35 36 AGENDA ITEM 5: PUBLIC CHARGE 37 38 Introduction to the Public Charge 39
The Board of County Commissioners, under the authority of North Carolina General Statute, 40
appoints the Orange County Planning Board (OCPB) to uphold the written land development 41
laws of the County. The general purpose of OCPB is to guide and accomplish coordinated and 42
harmonious development. OCPB shall do so in a manner, which considers the present and 43
future needs of its citizens and businesses through efficient and responsive process that 44
contributes to and promotes the health, safety, and welfare of the overall County. The OCPB 45
will make every effort to uphold a vision of responsive governance and quality public services 46
during our deliberations, decisions, and recommendations. 47
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The Planning Board pledges to the citizens of Orange County its respect. The Board asks its 51
citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with 52
fellow citizens. At any time, should any member of the Board or any citizen fail to observe this 53
public charge, the Chair will ask the offending member to leave the meeting until that individual 54
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regains personal control. Should decorum fail to be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting 55
until such time that a genuine commitment to this public charge is observed. 56
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62 AGENDA ITEM 8: COMMITTEE/ADVISORY BOARD REPORTS 63 a) BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT 64 b) ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION 65 66
67 AGENDA ITEM 10: ADJOURNMENT 68 69
Planning Board meeting was adjourned by consensus. 70
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