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UID:meeting-3613@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met with the county's fire and rescue chiefs\, then held a work session on a draft policy for spending bond and other capital money on school construction ahead of the November 5 bond referendum. The board also took up nine appointments to advisory boards\, from the Planning Board to the Historic Preservation Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1757?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3613
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3612@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners held a public hearing on the county's first Short Range Transit Plan\, a five-year plan for same-day demand-response service\, a new Mebane circulator and two phases each of Hillsborough circulator consolidation and improvements. The board also weighed $275\,000 in added debt financing for an all-electric heat pump system and LED lighting at the Durham Tech Orange County campus expansion.\n\nThe rest of the agenda held four proclamations\, an Arts Commission economic-impact report\, and a 12-item consent agenda covering the 2025 property reappraisal schedule\, construction contracts for the Fairview Park pickleball courts and the Efland-Cheeks Community Center\, and board and commission appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2103\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1763?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3612
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2103
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241108
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners were set to decide whether to raise the pay cap for the county's ABC General Manager from $132\,000 to as much as $150\,000\, and whether to raise ABC board member stipends for the first time since 2004. The agenda also carried an updated Safe Routes to School plan recommending crosswalks\, sidewalks and reduced speed zones near schools across the county.\n\nHousing staff planned to report on the first quarter under new Emergency Housing Assistance rules\, including a rising share of denied applications. A 20-item consent agenda covered property tax releases\, vehicle and equipment purchases for Solid Waste and Emergency Services\, two donated conservation easements\, and a $2 regional vehicle registration tax increase for GoTriangle.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072024-2126\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1767?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3611
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072024-2126
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3634@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board\, meeting at the Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat Center\, took up two applications to enroll farms in the county's voluntary agricultural district program: a 33-acre farm in the Cedar Grove Agricultural District and a 45.17-acre farm in the Caldwell Agricultural District. The board also reviewed its 2025 meeting calendar and a draft update to the county's farmland protection plan\, last revised in 2009.\n\nStaff briefed the board on a December 3 farm succession workshop and on the county's agricultural economic development grant program\, which drew about 15 applications this cycle. The board also heard an update on the county's Land Use Plan 2050 process\, tied to the farmland protection plan discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2133\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3634
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2133
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3744@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board heard the results of the second public engagement round for Land Use Plan 2050 on December 4\, 2024\, and approved its own annual report and 2025 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2139\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3744
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2139
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened work on the 2025-2029 consolidated plan\, the document that steers federal housing money through the county's HOME Consortium with Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Hillsborough. They also decided how the county will count future students\, awarded a year of climate grants\, and gave a broadband contractor another twelve months.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1775?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3607
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3633@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250116
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board approved two farms into the voluntary agricultural district programme on 15 January 2025 and worked through the draft farmland preservation plan it will take to the commissioners in April.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2173\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3633
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2173
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3606@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250118
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners spent their 17 January 2025 retreat on four subjects: how the county's housing programmes work\, the outlook for the 2025-26 budget under the coming revaluation\, federal revenue sources\, and the state of local agriculture.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3606
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3699@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250130
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission took a redrafted landmark evaluation form on 29 January 2025 and started work on a new website. There were no decision items. The commission also discussed how to find and map historic Black cemeteries and Indian stone mounds.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3699
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3604@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened the public hearing on Fiddlehead Corner on 4 February 2025\, a housing cooperative's plan for a 55-and-over community on 90 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop. The application asked for 150 dwellings\; the applicant cut that to 100 at the hearing. After 33 people spoke\, the board continued the hearing to 6 March.\n\nThe project needs a rezoning from agricultural residential to a master plan conditional district\, amendments to the comprehensive plan\, and changes to the development ordinance. The Planning Board recommended denial of all three. The agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1779?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3604
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3742@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee spent 5 February 2025 on proposed rewrites to the county's subdivision rules\, initiated by the commissioners and the planning director to line up with the coming comprehensive plan update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3742
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3687@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment settled how it will produce its State of the Environment report on 10 February 2025: no outside consultant\, a shared folder\, subcommittees meeting between regular meetings\, and a target of finishing by 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102025-2187\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3687
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102025-2187
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3632@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board endorsed the draft Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan on 19 March 2025\, ahead of presenting it to the county commissioners on 8 April. It also approved one new voluntary agricultural district application and heard where the 2050 land use plan stands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2210\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3632
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2210
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3594@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took four subjects at their 8 April 2025 work session\, then worked through appointments to five advisory boards. The most consequential is the 2050 comprehensive land use plan: the board asked for more background before it will review the draft\, and the third community engagement window\, scheduled for May through July\, has been postponed with the consultant's work paused.\n\nThe board also reviewed performance measures for the countywide strategic plan\, the draft Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, and a status report on the Soccer.com Center.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2217\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1803?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3594
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2217
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee took a first look on 9 April 2025 at two Unified Development Ordinance rewrites the planning director had initiated: telecommunications facilities and residential solar arrays. The committee takes no votes and needs no quorum\; both amendments went to the full board in May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3740
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3685@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250415
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment welcomed two newly appointed members on 14 April 2025 and spent most of the meeting in subcommittee\, working on the State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142025-2218\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3685
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142025-2218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3593@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners published the revenue neutral tax rate for 2025-26 on 15 April 2025: 63.84 cents per $100\, down from 86.29 cents\, after the revaluation raised the tax base by $9 billion to $32.6 billion\, an increase of 38.6 percent. They also approved buying a five-acre site off Waterstone Drive in Hillsborough for a crisis diversion facility and hired its construction manager.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1806?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3593
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3725@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250422
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBOARD
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board took up four items on 21 April 2025: a replacement for the county's 2009 Farmland Protection Plan\, an update to its own procedures\, progress on the bicycle and pedestrian plan\, and a proposal to require multimodal transportation assessments of development applications.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212025-2228\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3725
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212025-2228
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3697@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250424
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission heard a local historian correct the record on Faucett Mill at its 23 April 2025 meeting\, and took an update on the Old Courthouse preservation project. There were no decisions on the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3697
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3684@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment took up two things on 12 May 2025: whether to create county environmental awards\, and how its subcommittees are progressing on the State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122025-2245\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3684
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122025-2245
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250530
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe formal public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2025-26 budget and the ten-year capital plan\, followed by a work session. The manager presented the recommended budget on 6 May\; this is the last hearing before the board decides amendments on 5 June. Four board appointment discussions follow the hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05292025-2273\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1830?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3584
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05292025-2273
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' business meeting two days before the budget is settled. Three public hearings on land use: a county-initiated rezoning of the 69.58 acres Cedar Ridge High School sits on\, an applicant's request to put a 41-building self-storage development on 11.22 acres at Rougemont\, and the first rewrite of the county's telecommunications facility standards since the development ordinance was adopted in 2011. Also on the agenda: the Solid Waste Master Plan aiming at zero waste by 2045\, a solar array text amendment\, and a twenty-one item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1832?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3583
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3658@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nFourteen hearings scheduled before the Board of Equalization and Review at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 to 4:30 PM at West Campus. Three owners expected to attend\, one of them by phone.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2280\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3658
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2280
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3683@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250610
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe Commission for the Environment's last meeting before its summer break\, at the Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agriculture Center and on Teams. The agenda runs to a schedule by the minute: membership and candidate introductions at 7:04\, an environmental awards proposal at 7:15\, progress on the State of the Environment report at 7:35\, and fifty minutes of subcommittee breakouts before the room reconvenes to report back. The commission advises the county commissioners and does most of its work through three subcommittees: air and energy\, water\, and land.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092025-2282\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3683
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092025-2282
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3653@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard eleven appeals on 24 June 2025: one registered motor vehicle\, seven contesting real property values\, two asking that present-use value be reinstated on parcels removed from the program\, and one asking the board to accept a present-use value application filed after the deadline. Five appellants appeared. The board also discussed how the county's evidence reaches appellants before a hearing\, and its handling of registered motor vehicle appeals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242025-2299\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3653
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242025-2299
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2038@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250730
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250731
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's Agricultural Preservation Board debates revisions to its draft Ag Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan ahead of a future presentation to the Board of County Commissioners\, recommends new and returning members to fill five vacancies\, and plans its fall Voluntary Agricultural District breakfast.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07302025-2319\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2038
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07302025-2319
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2124@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears eleven property tax appeals\, including three requests to accept late Present Use Value applications for farmland and forestry\, and value disputes on eight residential parcels around the county.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2337\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2124
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2337
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2013@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners hears the first of several staff presentations answering its own questions about the Land Use Plan 2050 update. This one covers the plan's data sources and how watersheds limit development. It also covers the county's joint planning agreements with its towns\, including the Water and Sewer Management\, Planning and Boundary Agreement. The board also takes up reappointments to seven advisory boards\, discusses where closed sessions fall on future meeting agendas\, and weighs the future of its Strategic Communications Work Group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/12?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2013
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2037@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board plans to elect a vice chair and consider a Voluntary Agricultural District application for a small horticulture operation on Erwin Road. Preserve Rural Orange is set to present on the county's land use plan update\, and staff plan to brief the board on a Cost of Community Services study grant and possible improvements to the board's website.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2389\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2037
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2389
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2112@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251001
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review is set to hear nine 2025 revaluation appeals\, from a lakefront home on S. Lakeshore Drive to a 57.66-acre tract on Mt. Willing Road and a condo unit on West Franklin Street. Each owner is contesting the county's assessed value\, and the board weighs evidence from both sides on every parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302025-2401\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2112
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302025-2401
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2046@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Meeting Canceled
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment had one case on its calendar: a quasi-judicial appeal of interpretation from The Brough Law Firm\, on behalf of Bandit Farms and HarperGrace LLC\, over whether farm stays on property known as Union Grove Farm were correctly classified as a principal farm use rather than agritourism. The applicant withdrew the case on September 30\, 2025\, and the county canceled the October 8 meeting\; no other business was scheduled.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2398\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2046
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2398
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2098@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251031
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears 25 individual property value appeals from this year's revaluation\, scheduled across a morning and afternoon session. Appellants challenge the county's assessed values on grounds ranging from construction quality and property condition to comparable sales.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10302025-2435\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2098
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10302025-2435
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2227@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council had phase 2-B of Blackwood Farm Park on its November 5 agenda\, along with its 2025 annual report and work plan\, an update on the county trails plan and one on Fairview Park.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the council decided is not on the record.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2426\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2227
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2426
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2161@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251111
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment will close out this year's Climate Action Grant review. It will vote on how to divide $267\,750 among sixteen applications that together requested $619\,095.\n\nThe commission will also introduce new member Leto Copeley and elect a chair and vice chair for the coming year. It will begin work on its 2025 annual report and work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11102025-2428\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2161
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11102025-2428
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2028@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board has a short agenda for its November 11 meeting: board and staff updates\, approval of the October meeting's minutes\, and an hour of annual planning for 2026. The posted agenda gives no more detail than those headings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2028
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2332@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board hears from the Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro and from Carrboro's economic development staff on November 11. The meeting is at Bru's Public House in Carrboro. The agenda also lists a vacancy in the board's agriculture seat and the 2026 meeting calendar. Board members' disclosure statements are due December 31\, and the annual report and work plan are due January 16.\n\nThe board also takes up minutes from its September 9 meeting and hears a director's update on commercial and industrial projects. No minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the board actually did is not on the record.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2429\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2332
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2429
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2045@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment holds a quasi-judicial hearing on a special use permit for a "Care Facility" at 1009 Hi Mar Lane. Jubilee Integrated Wellness\, a farm-based mental health day program\, already operates there on part of a 9.67-acre parcel under bona fide farm status. The permit would let the site get a fire inspection now denied to farm structures. That would open the way to state licensing. Licensing would let Jubilee bill insurers as a facility instead of an office practice\, and take Medicaid patients\, whom it cannot serve now.\n\nThe board also reviews its annual report and work plan for 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2045
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2036@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board takes up a farmland preservation plan\, reworked to meet legal and planning requests\, before it goes to county commissioners. Members also review a first draft of the board's 2025 annual report and work plan\, due to commissioners by January 16.\n\nThe board considers a $14\,000 grant application to update the county's 2006 cost of community services study\, matched by a $2\,000 Farm Bureau gift.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2445\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2036
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2445
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board takes up a budget update and Savannah Bananas planning under the executive director's report\, plus a communications and digital strategy update from bureau staff. UNC's newly appointed director of special projects\, Marcus Ginyard\, addresses the board on coordination between the university and local governments. Board members also share community updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2147
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2003@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251122
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners held the last of their educational sessions on the 2050 land use plan\, this one on conservation subdivisions\, with planning consultant Randall Arendt presenting. Planning director Cy Stober framed the questions: where in the county these belong\, where they would do most good\, and how to build them from what the board has learned. A facilitated discussion on next steps followed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/34?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2003
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness's annual report to the board flags a new HUD funding notice that could cut money for permanent housing by 70 percent and cap annual renewal funding at 30 percent. Commissioners also elect a new chair and vice-chair for the year\, name voting delegates to the state and national county associations\, and review which outside boards still need a commissioner to serve on them in 2026.\n\nThe consent agenda covers routine property tax releases\, a five-year renewal of the county's Fairview Park agreement with the Town of Hillsborough\, and a school enrollment forecasting contract with UNC's Carolina Demography.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/35?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2002
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2044@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's board of adjustment holds an evidentiary hearing on December 10 on a major modification to the Emerson Waldorf School's special use permit\, updating the campus master plan approved in 2015.\n\nThe school\, a Pre-K through grade 12 private school on 54 acres at 6211 New Jericho Road\, wants a road map for buildings phased over ten years\, supporting growth from about 294 students and 48 staff to roughly 350 students and 55 staff by 2035. It would build less than it is already permitted to: total new square footage drops from 56\,562 to 37\,684\, with the 13\,942-square-foot gymnasium\, an eighth-grade classroom building and a shop addition all dropped. No new land is involved.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2470\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2044
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2470
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe church that owns the Harvey's Chapel cemetery has told Orange County it will consider donating the site\, on condition that it be permanently protected. The county's historic preservation commission heard that on December 10\, alongside news that a grant will pay for expanding the trail network at Seven Mile Creek Preserve\, including a spur trail letting hikers walk up to the cemetery and the site of the original church.\n\nStaff want a high-quality interpretive sign at the cemetery and have arranged to meet a church leader about how to proceed. Members will hike the site late in the winter.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2170
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2035@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board considers a final draft of its Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, revised by a subcommittee\, before sending it to the county commissioners. The board also hears a progress report on the county's present-use value audit and gets updates on the voluntary agricultural district program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2495\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2035
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2495
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners received the final report on neighborhood reviews and revaluation appeals on March 5\, closing out the assessment cycle that had occupied the board of equalization and review and a separate work group for months. They also renewed employee health and dental insurance and continued the county's participation in the state health insurance pool.\n\nThe board took up its proposed 2026 priority legislative issues\, which it adopted later in March\, and adopted a Women's History Month proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/41?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1995
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2034@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board reviewed and approved new farms for the voluntary agricultural district on March 18\, the one decision on its agenda. Voluntary agricultural districts give farms some protection from nuisance complaints and a formal signal that the land is meant to stay in agriculture.\n\nThe board also discussed the single membership application it had on file and how to recruit more\, took an update on the Land Use Plan 2050\, and looked for agriculture-themed photographs to illustrate the final draft of its Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2556\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2034
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2556
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1990@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260324
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners set their 2026 priority legislative issues on March 23\, aligning what they will ask the General Assembly for with the state association of county commissioners' advocacy goals and the county's own strategic plan.\n\nThe list runs across agriculture\, environment\, health and human services\, justice and public safety\, public education\, and tax and finance. The county's top-tier goal is protecting and expanding farmland preservation programs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=85\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1990
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2168@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County holds its public hearing on a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centres as a land use - explicitly including artificial intelligence data centres\, cryptocurrency mining and data processing facilities. Also on the agenda: a $1.7 million loan to a volunteer fire district\, and a discussion of the county's communications approach. The published packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2167@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision. The substantive discussion is a staff presentation on preserving Black tenant farm history - a farmstead and associated sites in the Carr community of northwest Cedar Grove Township. Updates cover a tour\, two preservation problems\, revised cost estimates for the historic courthouse\, and the marker subcommittee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2167
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2240@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nA 43-lot subdivision on 61 acres\, and the subdivision ordinance rewrite that governs how such things are reviewed. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2592\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2240
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2592
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2155@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260512
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe commission introduces a new applicant but takes no membership vote this month\, discusses its Earth Day event and the first of a new award\, and works through the final drafts of the State of the Environment report. Each subcommittee needs to supply one person to help with final edits.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-2599\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2155
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-2599
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2329@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nElections for chair\, vice-chair and secretary\, then a vacancy on the core business and grant committee\, a review of the attendance policy\, and a discussion about changing the meeting schedule. A guest appearance from the planning and inspections director.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2600\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2329
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2600
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2033@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe board's last meeting before its farmland plan goes to the county commissioners on 2 June. No items for decision\; the work is reviewing new front matter added to the draft - a preface\, acknowledgements and a call to action - and settling the logistics of who presents on the day.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2612\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2033
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2612
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree substantial items: how the county spends next year's opioid settlement money\, acceptance of a farmland stewardship plan replacing one from 2009\, and notice to terminate a 99-year interlocal agreement under which the county collects taxes for its municipalities. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/58?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1977
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2238@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe ordinance review committee\, meeting straight after the regular board with 85 pages of proposed development ordinance amendments in front of it. Attendance is voluntary and no quorum is needed - this is where the text is worked over before the board recommends on it.\n\nThe package is the planning director's omnibus set\, and it kept coming back: the committee took it again on 1 July\, 12 August and 2 September\, each time carried forward. Much of it is the table of permitted uses\, the grid that decides which uses are allowed\, allowed with conditions\, or need a special use permit in each zoning district - farm supply stores\, feed mills\, commercial stables\, stockyards and livestock markets among them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2238
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2032@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260716
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nSeventy minutes\, no items for decision. The board picks up the agricultural viability and farmland stewardship plan after the county commissioners approved it on 2 June\, hears about a food access programme\, and looks at membership applications going to the commissioners on 10 September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2032
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2153@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260810
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260811
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe night the commission finishes the report it has been writing for more than a year. The State of the Environment Report comes back as a final draft with a vote to accept it\, ending work the commission was still struggling to draft in June 2025 when members were asked to write their sections over the summer break.\n\nAlso on the agenda: a presentation from the water and sewer authority on what PFAS is doing to its operations\, with the commission asked to comment on draft guiding principles\; a review of the community climate action grant and its scoring tools\; and an update on a summer heat action cohort.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2153
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2233@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOne rezoning: 20.51 acres at 9825 NC Highway 49 in Cedar Grove\, from agricultural residential to a non-residential conditional district\, so the county's own alcohol board can build a store there. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2646\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2233
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2646
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2565@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260909
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Economic Development Advisory Board meets for a presentation on Sonark Farms and a tour of it. That is the only substantive item\; the rest of the agenda is the roll call\, minutes\, department updates and open discussion among board members.\n\nThis account is written from the item list the county published. The agenda document was not reachable when it was written\, so what Sonark Farms will present is not on file here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082026-2663\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2565
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082026-2663
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2918@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260911
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners meet Thursday for the twice-yearly progress report on the countywide strategic plan\, and for a first look at a draft Strategic Communications and Civic Partnership Plan. The rest of the evening is appointments to thirteen advisory boards.\n\nThe communications plan would set a county-wide framework for how Orange County talks to residents and staff\, treating communication as a core public service rather than a support function. Its stated aims are clearer and more consistent messaging\, wider access\, stronger internal capacity\, and durable relationships with communities.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102026-2664\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/67?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2918
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102026-2664
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-2917@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260915
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spend the morning of 14 September on the draft Land Use Plan 2050\, deciding what must change before it goes out for a third and final round of public comment. Staff pose questions under five headings: the plan's vision themes\, housing\, rural conservation neighborhoods with community septic systems\, rural activity nodes\, and renegotiating the water and sewer boundary agreements with the towns.\n\nStaff recommend dropping conservation neighborhoods from the future land use map and offering them countywide as a subdivision option\, and merging three kinds of rural commercial node into one. They warn that downzoning farmland to one home per ten acres would raise land and home prices. No vote is scheduled and there is no public comment period. A revised draft is due at a November business meeting\, and adoption is expected in late 2027.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2665\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/71?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2917
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2665
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-4005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's Agricultural Preservation Board reviews and votes on farm applications to the voluntary and enhanced voluntary agricultural districts on Wednesday evening. Those enrollments are the county's main tool for keeping working farmland in production\, and the board also takes an update on the districts as a whole.\n\nStaff then present the county's Well Net\, the network of wells used to monitor groundwater\, along with an account of the county's role in the Upper Neuse River Basin Association. The board also has to move its November meeting\, which would otherwise fall on the VAD Breakfast on November 12\, and hears where a new Cost of Community Services study stands. That study is funded by an Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund grant.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2676\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4005
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2676
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031412Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261007
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners receive the final report Tuesday night from GAR Associates\, the firm hired in May to audit the 2025 property revaluation after residents and board members questioned it. GAR finds the values meet the minimum statistical standards but that several office practices do not. It recommends a true sales-comparison approach for homes\, a new land valuation strategy and a statistical appraisal specialist on staff. The only public hearing is on fiscal 2028 transit grant applications seeking $515\,928.\n\nThe 23-item consent agenda carries $251\,517 in property tax refunds\, new agreements with eight rural fire departments\, and a $135\,000 salary for Register of Deeds Amy McLamb. It also awards the county's federal HOME-ARP rental assistance money to Housing for New Hope\, the only applicant\, and endorses the Andrews House\, a 1950s Modernist home\, for the National Register. Information memos set out a schedule for data center rules\, with a hearing expected in March 2027\, and report bus ridership up 52% to 137% under the fare-free pilot.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/73?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4713
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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