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AGENDA
PLANNING BOARD
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
6:30 PM, Town Barn
ITEM #1: Consideration of additions to the agenda.
ITEM #2: Committee Reports
ITEM #3: Approval of minutes from the July 9 hearing and August 6 meeting.
ITEM #4: Report of subcommittee work and recommendation to Town Board regarding
text amendment to add a Prevention of Demolition by Neglect provision
ITEM #5: Recommendation to Town Board regarding proposed Adequate Public Facilities
Ordinance and Memorandum of Agreement with Orange County and the
Orange County School Board to affect the timing of new home construction
ITEM #6: Adjourn
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MINUTES
PLANNING BOARD
September 3, 2002
PRESENT: David Daniel (Chair), Jim Boericke, Joel Brinkley, Cathy Carroll, Matthew Farrelly,
Kelly Hopper, Paul Newton, Bryant Warren
PUBLIC: Margaret Hauth
Daniel called the meeting to order at 6:33 PM.
ITEM #2: Warren provided an update from the Parks and Recreation Board. He said they were
beginning an update of the Master Plan. He said he suggested the newly vacant lot
across from the Library for a skate park. He added that the members were looking to
make improvements to Gold Park. Hauth reported that the Board of Adjustment did
meet. She added that the first meeting of the Orange Grove Road Task Force would
be September 5 in the Barn.
ITEM #3: Newton noted two corrections to the August minutes. Warren moved to approve the
minutes as corrected. Boericke seconded.
VOTE: Unanimous.
ITEM #4: Daniel asked Boericke to report on the committee's work. Boericke noted that the
work began with about 30 pages of emails. He suggested that some meetings might
be necessary to facilitate forward motion. Members agreed that the email volume
was daunting at first, especially for those using company email accounts. Carroll
expressed concern that members like her who don't spend the day in front of a
computer may miss out on the written discussion and add comments out of sequence
or "late." Boericke asked members to focus their comments on actual wording
changes to the ordinance. He suggested two further steps to move the process along.
First, ask the Historic District Commission to propose a process for updating, using,
and listing on the local inventory. Secondly, he asked that the Town's website be
used to post versions under consideration. The members discussed the mechanics of
that possibility. Hauth noted that the Clerk is the webmaster. She suggested that if
new versions were no more frequent than weekly, that would likely not be too much
of a burden. Boericke agreed that he would not submit new versions more
frequently. Hauth asked the members to forward their report to the Town Board in
the form of a motion, since the Town Board could decide to vote on the text at any
time.
MOTION: Warren moved to ask the Town Board for additional time to continue working on the
ordinance, to ask the HDC to propose a process for the use, updating, and criteria for
listing on the inventory, and to use the town website for posting versions of the
ordinance. Boericke seconded.
VOTE: Unanimous.
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ITEM #5: Hauth introduced the proposed Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. She added that
the packet included information from April about school capacity and some student
projections using the current generation rates. Hauth noted that with the construction
of Cedar Ridge and the proposed middle school should place the Orange County
system in a good position for a number of years. Hopper asked why the ordinance is
needed when the schools are in reasonably good shape. Hauth said that the
conventional wisdom is that the time to adopt the ordinance is before you need it,
since these ordinances cannot be used to correct existing system deficiencies. She
added that another concern is that if Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Orange County adopt
an ordinance, Hillsborough and rural Orange County may see a shift in development
pressure to compensate for slowed growth in Chapel Hill/Carrboro.
Carroll suggested that an ordinance is not always the solution. She added that she
doesn't believe that it will really be 10 years before the Orange County system needs
another school. She added that consistent communication between the schools and
the land use decision makers is what is needed more than an ordinance. Newton said
that providing school capacity is not a town responsibility. He suggested that the
courtesy review process in place between town and county planning staffs should be
sufficient to meet the needs to allow the town to make informed decisions and not
inadvertently impact the school system. Farrelly said the ordinance makes sure that
school capacity is taken into consideration. He noted however, that the town has
other constraining issues, like water capacity.
MOTION: Newton moved to recommend that the Town Board not adopt the memorandum or
ordinance. Hopper seconded.
VOTE: 4-4.
Daniel adjourned the meeting at 7:58 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
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