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UID:meeting-3737@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241003
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council advises the Board of County Commissioners on parkland\, trails and recreation facilities. At its October 2 meeting the council took up two vacant seats on its own board\, the county's progress connecting to the Mountains to Sea Trail\, a letter asking the state to add pedestrian signals to the Dimmock's Mill bridge\, and whether the county should build a public pool or splash pad.\n\nStaff also briefed the council on construction at Perry Hills Mini Park and a coming vote by the commissioners on a bid for pickleball and tennis courts at Fairview Park.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022024-2098\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3737
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022024-2098
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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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UID:meeting-3634@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-3637@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment heard one case on November 13\, 2024: a special use permit for Canine Adventures to run a Class II kennel off Monotropa Trail in Efland\, in Bingham Township. A second case\, a watershed variance\, came off the agenda when the applicant withdrew it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132024-2130\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3637
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132024-2130
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3744@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-3636@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment heard two quasi-judicial cases on December 11\, 2024. Case A-7-24 asked to halve the reservoir setbacks at Lake Orange so a house could be built about 145 feet from the water\, where the ordinance requires 150 feet for buildings and 300 feet for septic. Case A-8-24 asked for a special use permit letting Schoolhouse of Wonder run a camp on Triangle Land Conservancy's Brumley Forest Nature Preserve\, a use that has operated there for years without one.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2142\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3636
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2142
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3742@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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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UID:meeting-3602@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners and the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners met jointly on 17 February 2025 on six subjects: the interlocal planning agreements between them\, contracted services\, town water and sewer capacity\, the closed Fairview landfill and the park above it\, the Hillsborough Station rail project\, and the crisis diversion facility.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2190\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1786?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3602
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2190
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3726@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250218
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBOARD
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board reviewed the 2019 Efland-Buckhorn-Mebane access management plan on 17 February 2025 against what has actually been built. The plan projected 175\,000 trips a day\; current development generates 25\,000.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2189\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3726
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2189
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3600@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250307
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners denied the Fiddlehead Corner rezoning on 6 March 2025\, refusing a 150-unit master plan development on 90.133 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop in Bingham Township. The board also denied the comprehensive plan amendment and the applicant-initiated ordinance text amendment that would have made the rezoning consistent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03062025-2194\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1791?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3600
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03062025-2194
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3632@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-3596@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250328
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Carrboro Town Council
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners and the Carrboro Town Council met jointly on 27 March 2025 on five subjects: the first year of the Drakeford Library Complex\, what federal cuts do to the county budget\, affordable housing and the Greene Tract\, expanding the CARE mobile crisis team\, and where the two bodies might advocate together.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272025-2209\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1797?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3596
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272025-2209
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3741@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board recommended three land use cases to the commissioners on 9 April 2025\, all headed to a 3 June public hearing. The county is rezoning its own Cedar Ridge High School site\, an applicant wants to put a self-storage business on 11 acres off NC 57 at Rougemont\, and a 38-lot subdivision on Dairyland Road came back for its preliminary plat.\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/_04092025-2215\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3741
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2215
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3703@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250418
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board spent most of its 17 April 2025 meeting on when a household should lose its housing choice voucher. Terminations in March were much higher than usual\, and the authority had sent notice that it could no longer help with rent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04172025-2237\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3703
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04172025-2237
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3725@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-3663@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nTwo educational sessions carry this meeting: the annual child fatality report\, which comes with a substantial change to what North Carolina requires local teams to review\, and an update on how the county is spending its opioid settlement money. One action item\, a set of new health department fees. Public comment is limited to five minutes for the meeting and three minutes a speaker.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2316\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3663
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2316
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3696@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo decisions on the agenda. The commission spends the evening on how it decides instead: testing a rewritten landmark evaluation form against a real house\, considering a university proposal to take DNA samples from a burial ground for enslaved people\, and organising a historical marker programme. Two site visits and the question of whether to meet at all in June round it out.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2274\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3696
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2274
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3738@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOne substantive item: a recommendation to the county commissioners on rezoning about 110.456 acres at 4809 Friends School Road\, in the Chapel Hill Township of Orange County\, from planned development housing and rural buffer to a non-residential conditional district. A conditional district rezoning is both use specific and site specific\, so what the board recommends is a particular plan with a signed list of conditions attached\, not an open change of zone. The commissioners' public hearing is expected on 4 September 2025.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042025-2275\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3738
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042025-2275
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2134@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review holds hearings on twelve property tax appeals\, including three condominium units at 400 W. Rosemary Street owned by NKB Properties LLC and two Carl Durham Road parcels owned by Sedelia Campbell.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2307\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2134
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2307
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2131@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard six property tax matters\, including five owner appeals and a county-initiated request to lower building grades\, and cut assessed value across three duplexes\, on a night that also briefed the board on a third-party vertical equity study of 2024-2025 valuations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2310\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2131
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2310
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2130@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250725
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard four property tax appeals\, covering a senior living facility on Estes Drive and three commercial properties on US 70A and Conner Drive\, and voted to schedule a special July 30 meeting on a county-requested value correction tied to a vertical regression study.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07242025-2311\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2130
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07242025-2311
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board takes up a rezoning request from Forestar Development for 61.11 acres on NC Highway 54 West in White Cross\, on the Rigsbee family's longtime tract. The company proposes a Residential Conditional District with 43 single-family homes on half-acre lots\, keeping the historic farmhouse and about 41 percent of the site as open space.\n\nThe board's vote is a recommendation. The Board of County Commissioners holds its own public hearing on the case October 7.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2318\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2249
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2318
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2128@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review reconvened to hear six more property tax assessment appeals\, continuing its work following the county's property revaluation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2331\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2128
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2331
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2192@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCPEH Leadership Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:OCPEH Leadership Team\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Leadership Team will decide how to divide a shrunken Emergency Solutions Grant pot\, $44\,000 this year against $98\,000 last year\, between the rapid rehousing program and the Inter-Faith Council's Homestart shelter\, which has appealed for a larger share. The Funding Review Committee recommends keeping the full amount with rapid rehousing rather than splitting it between the two. The team also expects an update on HUD technical assistance for the Continuum of Care's governance structure\, ahead of a September 11 public town hall\, along with partnership data reporting and committee updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2192
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2117@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear seventeen appeals of 2025 property tax valuations. Hearings run about every 10 to 15 minutes from 1 p.m.\, with a county appraiser presenting the assessor's case on each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2386\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2117
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2386
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board decides whether to recommend a conditional rezoning at 1039-UT NC 86 North to the Board of Commissioners. The rezoning would move 78.11 acres from Agricultural Residential to a Residential Conditional District. It's a 49-lot subdivision that keeps over half the tract as open space.\n\nThe board also decides whether to recommend a package of Unified Development Ordinance amendments to the commissioners. The changes cover impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers. Planning Director-initiated\, they respond mainly to the state's 2024 Regulatory Reform Act and adjust reservoir setbacks around Lake Orange.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2396\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2247
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2396
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2110@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251003
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears nine scheduled appeals of property values set in this year's revaluation. A tenth appeal is added the day of the hearing. Owners cite home condition\, comparable sales\, independent appraisals and recent purchase prices as grounds for lower assessments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022025-2402\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2110
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022025-2402
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251029
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review will hear 13 property tax appeals in one afternoon\, one per parcel assigned to a county appraiser for review. Twelve appeals come from individual property owners\; the other concerns an unimproved lot owned by a company.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2433\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2100
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2433
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2098@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-2096@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review takes up two cases on November 5. Westdale Poplar Place LP appeals the $27.29 million value of its 230-unit complex at 605 Jones Ferry Road\, seeking $26.41 million. It argues for the lower figure on an income approach. A second appellant asks the board to hear a personal property appeal on a utility trailer\, filed after the 30-day window had closed.\n\nA consent agenda separately proposes four more residential value reductions\, negotiated directly between the assessor's office and the owners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2437\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2096
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2437
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2006@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners consider options for selling all or part of 79.05 acres at 6823 Millhouse Road. The county bought the land in 2004 and 2007 for a soccer complex that was never built. A March 2025 appraisal puts the property at $1\,976\,000\, about $24\,997 an acre. State law bars conditions on a sale to the public. Restricting the land to active recreation means selling to a nonprofit or another government instead.\n\nThe board also gets a third briefing on the Land Use Plan 2050's rural activity nodes. It also discusses whether to continue\, change or end the Strategic Communications Work Group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2440\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/30?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2006
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2440
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2045@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-2152@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Climate Council holds a small-group discussion on AI's effects on climate\, led by UNC's sustainability lead\, Melanie Elliott. It also takes updates on a heat action plan\, a Community Climate Action grant program\, and a Year of Electrification effort. The council is a joint body of Orange County\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, both school boards and UNC.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2152
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a half-day retreat on two subjects for the county's Land Use Plan 2050 process: septic and wastewater treatment\, and groundwater. An outside engineer presents on individual and community septic systems\, addressing construction and maintenance costs and failure rates. An independent hydrogeologist presents on the county's water supply. He addresses how rock type affects wells\, and whether a well can be tested before a zoning or building approval.\n\nThe board set this presentation schedule at an April 8 work session\, as part of updating its Land Use Plan for the first time since 2008. This retreat and one set for November 21 bring in outside experts\; the board covered other topics itself at work sessions in September\, October and November.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=84\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2005
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners continue a public hearing on a conditional rezoning of 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North\, Hillsborough\, for a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision of single-family homes. Forestar Group filed the application on behalf of the property's owners. The hearing carried over from November 6. The planning board split 4-4 in September\, then voted 9-0 in October to recommend approval with conditions. The planning director recommends the board either approve the rezoning and its statement of consistency or deny it as not in the public interest.\n\nCommissioners also hold a public hearing on planning-director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers. The changes would simplify impervious-surface limits across the county's thirteen watershed overlay districts\, drop an obsolete sliding-scale table\, and adjust reservoir buffer widths near Lake Orange. Other business includes a Native American Heritage Month proclamation\, a discussion of when closed sessions appear on meeting agendas\, and a fifteen-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/33?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2004
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2036@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2003@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2089@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears twenty-three commercial appeals on December 2\, all contesting 2025 valuations on apartment complexes\, hotels and offices in Chapel Hill. Assessments run as high as $41\,298\,300. Owners argue for lower values using income approaches built on 2022 through 2024 financial statements\; the county defends its numbers with its own income and sales analyses.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2475\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2089
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2475
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council plans to adopt a 2026 meeting calendar and vote on its annual report and work plan. The agenda also lists the biennial joint meeting of area parks boards and the Nature of Orange photography contest. It carries no other detail beyond a director's report and an update from the intergovernmental parks work group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2468\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2226
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2468
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board takes up its 2025 annual report and 2026 work plan on December 3. The report lists the year's work — five conditional-district rezoning reviews\, three text-amendment recommendations\, one subdivision plat — and sets 2026 priorities led by the county's land use plan update. Members can amend the draft before it goes to the clerk's office by January 16 and on to county commissioners early next year.\n\nThe board also approves minutes from its October 1 meeting\, reviews the planning board and commissioners' December and January meeting calendars\, and hears chair comments on the attendance rules for county advisory boards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2246
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2044@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-2159@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment considers a petition to widen its Community Climate Action Grant fund. County Commissioner Sally Greene wants the fund to cover climate adaptation\, not only mitigation. The commission also plans to approve a final draft of its annual report and work plan\, due to the clerk's office in January. It will also decide whether to keep sponsoring the Nature of Orange photo contest.\n\nThe agenda sets aside time for a State of the Environment report round table and sub-committee breakouts on the year's projects. It also lists updates on the commission's RIPPLE environmental awards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2485\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2159
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2485
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2081@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears 21 property tax appeals on January 13. Seven individual homeowners appear in the morning. Fourteen limited liability companies and corporations that own apartment complexes and commercial buildings in Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Hillsborough appear in the afternoon.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2496\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2081
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2496
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2080@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears twenty-three property tax appeals over two sessions on January 14. Most are commercial and multifamily property in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Ten of the appeals are a single owner's duplexes on Regent Place and Weaver Dairy Road. The board also takes up a consent agenda of thirteen further adjustments county staff propose without a hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2497\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2080
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2497
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2077@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 29 appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 21\, 2026\, in a morning session of 17 industrial and commercial hearings plus a four-item consent agenda\, and an afternoon session of eight residential appeals in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. The board sustained the county's original assessment on eleven commercial properties\, reduced values in fourteen cases\, denied one appeal as untimely\, and in one unusual case raised a property's value above what the county itself had originally assessed.\n\nThat outlier was Ralcar Corp's 7411 Rex Road warehouse\, where the county's own analysis found the building undervalued and the board agreed to raise it from $1\,967\,400 to $2\,399\,300. On the residential side\, most reductions followed the same pattern: appraisers found homes' effective ages\, conditions or square footage overstated\, and the board corrected them\, including one Hillsborough home in poor condition\, cut from $304\,200 to $208\,900 to match an independent appraisal.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2500\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2077
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2500
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2072@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review sat from 1 p.m. to 4:28 p.m. on February 11 and heard fifteen property value appeals\, nearly all of them commercial and every appellant present. The names on the docket are institutional: retail property companies\, student housing partnerships\, a university real estate holding company\, and a warehouse owner.\n\nTax leadership also gave the board an overview of the neighborhood review project the board itself had ordered at an earlier meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2532\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2072
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2532
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2255@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260303
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group heard two appraisers on March 2\, one making the case that the county's 2025 commercial revaluation was aggressive but correct\, and one from Stanly County explaining why his county brought all its revaluation work in house twenty years ago.\n\nThe group is unusually broad for a technical committee. Alongside three county commissioners and county staff it seats community representatives from two districts\, a representative of the NC Housing Coalition\, one from Property Tax Justice\, and a non-profit housing provider.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03022026-2548\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2255
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03022026-2548
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2242@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260305
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board spent March 4 on the Land Use Plan 2050\, answering a request for information it had made in December. Staff sent the memo out two weeks ahead and asked members to come with questions.\n\nThe material was what the county commissioners saw at two half-day retreats in November: community septic\, wastewater treatment and groundwater resources on the 14th\, and conservation subdivisions on the 21st.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2536\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2242
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2536
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2330@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board gave 45 minutes on March 17 to a staff presentation on the county's economic development goals\, successes and challenges\, the longest item on the agenda. The director's report followed.\nUnder new business the board welcomed a new member and heard about an updated attendance policy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2330
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2175@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on March 19 for its monthly session. The program manager's report is the substance of these meetings\, covering the housing choice voucher program\; the presentation is available on request rather than posted.\n\nMembers gave updates and a three-minute public comment period was offered.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2560\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2175
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2560
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2143@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: April Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board hosted two senior UNC real estate officials on April 15: the associate vice chancellor for real estate and campus enterprises\, and the executive director for real estate development. The university is the largest single influence on visitor traffic in the county\, so what it builds shapes what the bureau markets.\n\nThe executive director gave her report\, board members brought community updates\, and the board approved minutes from March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2582\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2143
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2582
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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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UID:meeting-2240@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree regular agenda items\, each about housing or the money behind it: up to $32 million of installment financing for capital projects\, a $100\,000 request to help buy supportive housing units for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and the annual federal housing plan. 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/_05192026-2607\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/54?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1981
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night. The board also decides the ten-year capital plan\, amends its broadband contract to reach the last houses before a federal deadline\, and refuses a set of transit amendments. 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/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe board's first meeting after the death of its chair\, Jamezetta Bedford. Vice-Chair Jean Hamilton chairs\; the seat is filled by appointment later in the month. The regular agenda carries four substantial items: changes to the longtime homeowner assistance programme\, up to $27 million in financing for a crisis diversion centre\, how the tax administrator should report to the board\, and whether to solicit offers on a piece of county land. 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/_07092026-2641\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/63?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1974
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1973@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe item that matters most is at number eleven: the board discusses and makes an appointment to fill a vacant seat on itself. An elected board choosing its own missing member is the closest a county gets to selecting a representative without an election.\n\nOtherwise a short agenda. No public hearings\, no regular agenda items and no minutes to approve. The consent agenda carries three things: an amendment letting Habitat for Humanity transfer lots at Weaver's Grove to another affordable housing developer\, acceptance of a state trails grant for Seven Mile Creek\, and a proclamation honouring a late resident. An hour is set aside for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/64?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1973
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2065@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nAn afternoon given entirely to commercial appeals\, and to four of them from one company. No owner is attending any of them\; the board decides on the written record and the appraiser's presentation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062026-2652\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2065
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062026-2652
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2233@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
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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UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe one public hearing is the consequential item. A county-initiated text amendment would take by-right subdivisions of fewer than 21 lots out of Planning Board and commissioner review entirely and hand them to staff\, on the reasoning that state law requires the county to approve plats meeting its own criteria anyway. It also drops the separate concept plan application\, widens the expedited track to parcels between two and five acres\, and deletes three subdivision categories that have never been used. The Planning Board recommended approval unanimously with one change: doubling the mailing notice before a neighborhood meeting from 14 days to 30.\n\nThe board also fills the Register of Deeds vacancy left by a resignation in mid-August\, and honors Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford\, who died in June\, by naming the crisis diversion facility now under construction after her. Consent carries $350\,000 in tourism marketing contracts\, a $37\,783 opioid settlement award\, and ratification of a $123\,500 inspections contract the county manager had already signed to keep construction moving.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/66?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2327
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2231@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020724Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nTwo things to decide: a concept plan for a twelve-lot subdivision on Lebanon Road\, and the county's response to a state law that takes several powers away from it.\n\nThe ordinance amendment is the larger of the two. The North Carolina Regulatory Reform Act of 2025 forces changes the county did not choose\, and the planning director has used the occasion to fold in fixes asked for by the commissioners\, by state environmental regulators and by federal flood officials. It touches more than thirty sections and runs to 140 pages of tracked changes. The board recommends\; the commissioners hold the formal hearing and decide.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2659\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2231
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2659
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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