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UID:meeting-3578@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051103Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting
LOCATION:Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners meet in a special session built mostly around closed-door business. They would close the meeting three times. One session would cover economic development incentives for an industry considering a move to or expansion in the county. A second would cover the county's defense in ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County. A third would review the performance of a public officer or employee.\n\nThe consent agenda holds seven items. Commissioners would appoint Rob Schooley to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council. They would accept $4\,248 in family planning funds and $2\,700 for foster care\, both from state health officials. A $310\,000 federal-state contract with Chatham Transit Network would cover medical trips and rides to county centers. A separate $417\,135 agreement with the N.C. Forest Service\, split 60-40 with the state\, would fund forestry and wildfire work for another year. The agenda also includes a pyrotechnics permit for an October 2 display at Chatham Charter School. Commissioners would also name two private roads\, Stella Maris Way and Martin Brothers Lane.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1484_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3578
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1484&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4111@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Elections Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Board of Elections Office\, 964 East Street\, Suite 101 Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nChatham County's Board of Elections set its absentee ballot machinery for the coming election at its 15 September meeting. It took a resolution to begin counting absentee ballots on election day\, a second approving the absentee meeting schedule\, and approval of the election officials who will staff early voting and election day.\n\nThe board also scheduled logic and accuracy testing of the voting equipment\, which state law requires before every election\, and heard the director's report. The agenda is marked tentative and carries no attachments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78172/639249998326430000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4111
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50328/5665
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4054@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T183000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board met remotely on 15 September with the county attorney\, Emily Meeker of Poyner & Spruill\, to go through the procedures the board works under and its role in them. The board had asked for the session while writing its data center rules\, after the attorney advised that one of its proposals would conflict with Senate Bill 382.\n\nOther business was reserved for further data center discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78158/639249827780930000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4054
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/55167/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4220@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting via Zoom\,
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met by video on 16 September with trails and open space at the top of the list\, an update on Parker's Ridge\, and research into how the county pays for parks. The committee also began work on its annual report.\n\nThe agenda is a nine-line list with no staff report behind it\, so what any of those items covered is not on the public record here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78152/639247441976070000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4220
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50249/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3127@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260921T130000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners vote Monday evening on a resolution opposing the Enbridge gas pipeline\, a month after the Agriculture Advisory Board held its own public hearing on it. That board reports back the same night\, and the pipeline company's attorney has already written to the county about the zoning amendments further down the agenda.\n\nFour legislative rezoning hearings follow. US HWY 64 Properties asks to take 13.145 acres off US 64 West at Ridge View Road from residential to regional business\; RTP Gardens asks for conditional regional business zoning on a tract off Bob Horton Road near Apex\; a Corinth Road owner in Moncure asks to move from R-5 to R-1. The fourth is the county's own amendment to the special use permit process. A separate set of the county's own zoning amendments sits on the board priorities list\, including one that removes off-street parking requirements to keep the ordinance in step with G.S. 160D. The board also votes on the first plat for Whispering Creek\, 238 lots on 288.6 acres off Bynum Ridge Road\, and on a contractor's storage yard at 1656 Campbell Road in Bear Creek\, where one resident has asked the board to reopen the quasi-judicial hearing before it decides.\n\nThe afternoon work session is where the money is. Commissioners take a space needs study and master plan from Hobbs Architects and The Wooten Company\, a report on whether to run the Expanding Access to Early Learning initiative for a full year\, presentations on opioid settlement spending and farmland preservation\, and a $250\,000 mobile health clinic from Tesco Specialty Vehicles. They close the session with two closed sessions\, one of them on ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1485_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3127
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1485&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4173@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260923T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260923T180000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Social Services Board Meeting
LOCATION:Social Services Board Room\, 102 Camp Drive Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Social Services\n\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4173
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/51759/1902
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4094@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260923T180000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Appearance Commission Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Appearance Commission\n\nChatham County's Appearance Commission reviews two sites on Wednesday evening. Apex Nurseries wants to add landscape and grading contractor storage as a use at 2271 Hollands Chapel Road\, which comes to the commission as a site plan revision. The second is a new gas station at 7733 Moncure Pittsboro Road\, where the commission takes both the site plan and the landscape plan.\n\nThe commission advises rather than decides\, and its wider work reaches the commissioners the same week: the county board votes Monday on the revised design guidelines this commission recommended\, which add a suggested plant list and an invasive plant list for commercial and industrial development.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78184/639251529370870000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4094
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52302/5656
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4211@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Solid Waste & Recycling Main Facility\, 28 County Services Road Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27330
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee will take up data centers first. Under old business the agenda lists an update on data centers and a judge's ruling\, with two questions beneath it: what the county's response is\, and where the draft data center regulations stand. The agenda does not say which case or ruling is meant.\n\nThe committee will also get an update on the county's Climate Action Plan and a proposal from Blue Strike\, including the plan's steering committee and what advisory role the committee should play from here. Under new business\, member Deb Gallagher will raise a recognition program for residents and businesses. Kevin Lindley\, the county's director of solid waste and sustainability\, will report. The meeting is in person at 28 County Services Road in Pittsboro. The next one\, on 22 October\, is on Zoom.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78224/639255782391270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4211
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/55490/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3126@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting - 2 Day Affordable Housing Retreat (9/28/2026 and 9/29/2026)
LOCATION:Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners spend two full days on housing affordability\, meeting with the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee at the Agriculture and Conference Center on 28 and 29 September. Every business item is a presentation\, and the agenda calls for no vote.\n\nThe first day reviews the county's 2023 Housing Strategic Plan\, the range of housing services now offered in Chatham\, where those services go next\, and the housing authority's work. The second day opens with the advisory committee's recommendations\, among them allowing accessory dwelling units countywide now rather than waiting for the 2024 development ordinance to take effect. Presentations follow on community land trusts\, scattered-site development\, tax credit housing and down payment assistance. Staff proposals posted with the agenda attach costs to each idea. They include a $50\,000 rent subsidy pilot and $175\,000 more for the housing trust fund in fiscal 2028. Larger steps would come later or depend on a bond: rapid rehousing at $300\,000\, $1 million to $2 million in loans to preserve a manufactured home community\, and a 4% tax credit project of up to 200 units. Each day holds a thirty-minute public comment session.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1468_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-28_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3126
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1468&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-4156@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051103Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Chatham County Board of Health Meeting
LOCATION:Community Classroom\, 1000 S. Tenth Ave Siler City\, North Carolina 27344
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4156
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53337/5671
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4131@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260929T190000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Elections Business/Absentee Meeting
LOCATION:Board of Elections Office\, 964 East Street\, Suite 101 Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Chatham County Board of Elections met on Tuesday\, 29 September\, to approve mail absentee ballots and name poll workers. The board was to approve an early voting assistant and its Election Day judges\, and review its inclement weather policy.\n\nOn absentee ballots\, the board had a revised resolution delegating ballot-return duties to staff\, a spot-check report on envelopes\, transcribed ballots and photo ID forms\, and the approval of ballots received. The agenda is marked tentative\, and no minutes of the meeting are published yet.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78252/639262826544730000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4131
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50294/5665
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4682@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051103Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T170000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners decide Monday evening on a special use permit for Lockley Holdings\, which wants to extend its contractor's storage yard onto 3.9 acres of pasture at 1656 Campbell Road in Bear Creek. The company withdrew a heavy industrial rezoning of the whole 10-acre tract in 2025 after neighbors objected. Five residents spoke against this narrower request at the June hearing\, citing noise from steel materials and semi-truck traffic at the Vernie Phillips Road turn. Staff find all five required findings met. The board also takes up a policy for moving remains from abandoned cemeteries\, which the county has never had.\n\nThe 3 p.m. session opens with a staff presentation on how to choose a new county attorney\, because the current one plans to step down. The board then goes into closed session on ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County. The evening consent agenda approves the space needs study and master plan for a future government campus on 277 acres near US 64 West and Renaissance Drive. It also approves a parking deal with Pittsboro for Lewis Freeman Park and a $55\,249 contract change on Parker's Ridge Park that does not raise the project's total cost.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/10/1486_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-10-05_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4682
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1486&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4132@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261006T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261006T190000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Elections Business/Absentee Meeting
LOCATION:Board of Elections Office\, 964 East Street\, Suite 101 Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4132
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50296/5665
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4074@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261006T183000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board takes up the Fearrington Preserve proposal Tuesday. Fearrington Property Development asks to rezone about 371.8 acres off Andrews Store\, Parker Herndon and Morris roads in Baldwin Township from R-1 to a Compact Community conditional district. A companion first plat would lay out 574 lots on 365 acres of the same seven parcels.\n\nThe board also reviews the Floresta Springs first plat\, 83 lots on 157.08 acres off Alex Cockman and Elmer Keck roads\, and a request by RTP Gardens LLC to rezone a parcel near Bob Horton Road and US 64 outside Apex to Regional Business for multiple uses. A small R-5 to R-1 rezoning at 3756 Corinth Road in Moncure is on consent. Members will also discuss the board's role in special use permit cases and hear which items go to the commissioners' 19 October hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78254/639262880252670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4074
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52283/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4632@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Environmental Review Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Review Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Environmental Review Advisory Committee meets online Thursday evening with no case before it. The agenda lists a discussion of the committee's own procedures and a general discussion of environmental issues in the county\, with no documents attached to either. Liaisons to the Planning Board and the Climate Change Advisory Committee report\, and the June minutes are up for approval.\n\nA public input period allows three minutes per speaker. The next meeting is 12 November.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78280/639264630917070000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4632
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53203/775
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4737@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051103Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261012T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Chatham County Board of Health Special Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4737
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/55550/5671
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4218@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T120000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Library Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Goldston Library\, 9235 Pittsboro-Goldston Road Goldston\, North Carolina 27252
DESCRIPTION:Library Advisory Committee\n\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4218
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52449/5673
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4133@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051103Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T190000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Elections Business/Absentee Meeting
LOCATION:Board of Elections Office\, 964 East Street\, Suite 101 Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4133
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50298/5665
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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