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UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners are due to decide whether to keep covering child care subsidy parent fees the county already pays alone in the state\, a new five-year contract for the Piedmont Food Processing Center\, and next steps for the Greene Tract's affordable-housing master plan.\n\nThe board is also holding public hearings on landscaping rules in its development ordinance and on the county's 2025 property reappraisal schedule\, ahead of a consent agenda covering tax refunds\, ambulance and defibrillator purchases\, and lease renewals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012024-2099\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1755?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3614
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012024-2099
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3637@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3744@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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:20261014T051233Z
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-3602@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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-3597@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners spent 18 March 2025 on three long discussions: the annual update from the Orange Water and Sewer Authority\, where Medicaid expansion stands a year on\, and two accumulated fund balances the board has to decide what to do with. Nobody spoke in public comment.\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/_03182025-2208\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1795?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3597
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182025-2208
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3595@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250402
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented the recommended 2025-35 capital investment plan to Orange County commissioners on 1 April 2025. Its tax estimates are built on the FY2025-26 valuation from the revaluation rather than the current one\, it assumes 2 percent property tax growth and 4 percent sales tax growth\, and it relies substantially on debt.\n\nThe board also approved the county's transportation priority list for the state's SPOT 8 prioritisation round\, which feeds the 2027-2036 state transportation improvement program\, and eleven consent items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1799?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3595
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3741@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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-3585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250528
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe last of the departmental budget sessions. Every functional leadership team comes to the board in turn - public safety\, human services\, support services\, general government and community services\, twenty-odd departments and the Sportsplex - to talk through operating requests\, capital\, and proposed fee changes. The board takes no public comment at a work session\; the public hearing follows on 29 May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2272\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1828?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3585
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2272
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3738@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2250@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee\, an informal session that does not require a quorum\, reviews two staff-initiated Unified Development Ordinance text amendments: one on impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers\, the other on subdivision review processes and classifications.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2305\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2250
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2305
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2230@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council considers whether to send its Parks and Recreation 2030 Master Plan mid-plan review to the Board of County Commissioners\, more than a year after finishing the report. Staff are recommending a new cover letter and a start on the plan's successor.\n\nThe council also reviews results of the 2025 Nature of Orange photography contest\, previews which items it will take up between September and December\, and hears a director's update on Fairview Park and county park facilities.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2321\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2230
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2321
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2126@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250820
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 ten property tax appeals from the 2025 revaluation\, with current assessed values ranging from $81\,000 to $1\,903\,100. Appellants challenge their valuations on grounds including comparable sales\, lot subdivision limits\, drainage and erosion\, and lack of utility access. County appraisers Jimmy Milliken\, Cyle Anderson and Kelly Wells present the county's evidence at each hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2334\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2126
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2334
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2125@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250821
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review scheduled 12 appeals from the 2025 revaluation: a religious property tax exemption request\, an elderly or disabled exclusion request\, and ten property value appeals. The board heard and decided all 12 that day\; none were continued. Only one appellant\, appearing for Unity Center of Peace\, attended in person\, and the rest were decided on the written record each side submitted. With Chair Leon Meyers and Regular Member Saru Salvi absent\, alternates Barbara Levine and Tony Blake sat in alongside Regular Member Richal Vanhook.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2335\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2125
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2335
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2124@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2121@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250904
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 ten property tax appeals\, including four adjoining parcels on Clarence Drive and two Carrboro homes on Weatherhill Point and Riverbirch Point seeking relief for damage from the July 6 Tropical Storm Chantal flooding. Other appeals raise incorrect square footage\, land inequities on a dirt road\, and a vacant lot with no well or sewer connections.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2381\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2121
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2381
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2248@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250904
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board takes up a rezoning of 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North. Forestar Group wants to shift the land from Agricultural Residential to Residential Conditional District for a 49-lot subdivision. The board also considers a staff-initiated text amendment to the county's development ordinance covering impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts\, and stream buffers.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2340\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2248
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2340
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2013@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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-2115@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250924
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears appeals from 13 property owners contesting the county's 2025 revaluation of their homes and land\, and considers 19 late-filed applications for the property tax exemption available to religious institutions under a state law enacted in July 2025.\n\nEach appeal weighs the owner's evidence — comparable sales\, flood damage\, an unbuildable easement\, an incorrect property record — against the county assessor's own analysis\, and the board decides whether to keep\, lower or continue the assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232025-2392\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2115
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232025-2392
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2112@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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:20261014T051233Z
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-2105@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review takes up 14 individual property tax appeals from the 2025 revaluation. Four are rural or vacant parcels along Sesame Road and Old Greensboro Road\, where the appellants dispute unclear title and a lack of legal access\; the rest challenge valuations on the condition of the home\, comparable sales\, or an error in the property record.\n\nEach appeal gets its own hearing\, with the owner or an agent presenting evidence against a county appraiser before the board sets a final assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2416\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2105
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2416
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251107
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners are set to consider releasing $54\,000 from the Social Justice Reserve to help food providers after the federal shutdown cut November SNAP benefits in half. About 4\,700 county households — 8\,700 people — received SNAP in September\, and all of them face a 50 percent reduction until the program is fully funded again.\n\nThe county manager proposes splitting the money four ways: $15\,000 each to the Interfaith Council in Chapel Hill and Orange Congregations in Mission in Hillsborough to stock their pantries\, and $12\,000 each to Porch Chapel Hill and Porch Hillsborough for food distributions two days later\, on November 8. Orange Congregations in Mission has agreed to waive its referral requirement for new clients until benefits are restored in full.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/29?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2007
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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:20261014T051233Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2092@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear 13 real-property valuation appeals from owners contesting their 2025 revaluation assessments\, including back-to-back appeals on Sharpe Road and a lakefront home on North Lakeshore Drive.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2456\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2092
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2456
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2179@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority board considers letting graduates of the Foster Youth to Independence program move onto the housing choice voucher program. The change would add a preference point that places them on the wait list\, the same approach the authority uses for emergency housing vouchers. The Foster Youth to Independence program runs 36 months\, and graduates currently have no route onward once it ends.\n\nThe agenda also carries the program manager's monthly report and an update on project-based vouchers. Members also plan to discuss flood zone policy for voucher holders and a draft 2026 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2179
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2088@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard six adjoining appeals from Jeff Erick Essen on vacant\, non-perking lots off Shadylawn Road Extension\, all contesting 2026 revaluation values on the grounds that the land is unbuildable and lacks sewer access. The board left two lots unchanged\, at $31\,800 and $39\,800\, but cut the other four\, originally valued at $66\,300 and three at $53\,000\, down to $39\,800 apiece\, applying the county's own long-standing -75% non-perking adjustment rather than the steeper -80% and -85% adjustments the county had used on those parcels. It also approved fifteen further parcels by consent\, including six owned by Andrew Ben Lloyd\, Jr. cut for floodplain\, topography and watershed restrictions.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2476\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2088
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2476
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2245@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nAn omnibus package of changes to Orange County's unified development ordinance goes before the planning board's ordinance review committee. The planning director proposed the amendments to fix errors\, incorporate recent state law\, resolve internal inconsistencies and address school needs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2459\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2245
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2459
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2044@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told at their January 16 retreat that the county faces a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY 2026-27 budget\, and that the same model puts the gap at $37.6 million the following year and $53.6 million the year after that. Closing this year's would take about seven cents on the property tax rate\; one penny raises roughly $3.37 million on a $33.9 billion tax base.\n\nThe drivers are debt service\, the phase-in of school capital pay-as-you-go\, non-discretionary personnel costs like health insurance and retirement\, and the county's practice of never cutting education funding. Commissioner McKee said across-the-board reductions may be needed and asked staff to look at how the county balanced its FY 2010-11 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2000
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners consider $267\,750 in Community Climate Action Grants\, recommended for eight of sixteen applications requesting $619\,095 combined. The other eight applicants\, including Habitat for Humanity's $150\,000 weatherization proposal\, ranked third\, would get nothing.\n\nThe agenda also carries the county's clean audit opinion for the year ended June 30\, 2025\, plus a $15\,000 increase in the audit services contract. Commissioners also consider a condominium agreement that would put the Drakeford Library Complex under shared ownership with the Town of Carrboro.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/37?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1999
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2078@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 17 residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 20\, 2026\, in a morning session of 11 appeals and an afternoon session of six more. The board reduced sixteen properties and sustained one.\n\nThree appeals from related Chapel Hill rental entities\, 304 Caldwell LLC\, 300 Caldwell LLC and 215 Broad LLC\, stood out: the county recommended raising two of the Caldwell properties' values after finding they were misclassified as duplexes rather than single-family rentals\, but the board cut all three below both the current and the county's proposed figures. In the afternoon\, the board applied a -75% flood adjustment to a vacant Lannie Drive parcel prone to flooding\, cutting its value from $60\,600 to $15\,600\, and reduced a comparably steep\, stream-crossed lot on Carl Drive after the owner said unsolicited purchase offers had run as low as $10\,000.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2499\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2078
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2499
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2077@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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-2075@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard seven residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 28. One more case was decided on the consent agenda. The board reduced five of the eight assessments and left three unchanged\; none went up. Combined value on the five reductions fell from $2\,417\,000 to $2\,148\,100.\n\nAppellants argued storm damage\, floodplain limits\, comparable sales and needed repairs. Five of the seven appeared in person\; one sent a family member and one did not attend. The board later agreed to reopen one case after the appellant said she had missed the hearing date and wanted to submit new evidence. That appeal is rescheduled for February 4. The largest single cut lowered one home's construction grade and wrote down two outbuildings on the same tract. Its assessment fell from $514\,400 to $429\,200.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2505\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2075
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2505
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2243@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board elects its chair and vice chair for 2026\, then takes up a county-initiated zoning atlas amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary. The parcel is about 19.4 acres\, unaddressed\, off Dodson's Crossroads at Arden Estate Court in Bingham Township.\n\nThe amendment shifts the line between the Jordan Lake unprotected watershed overlay and the University Lake protected watershed overlay. Watershed protection overlays are part of the zoning atlas\, so moving one takes a zoning atlas amendment and a full hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2503\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2243
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2503
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1990@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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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UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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:20261014T051233Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2066@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260806
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nSix residential appeals and a consent agenda. Four owners are attending in the opening forty-five minutes\; the last two\, late in the afternoon\, are not.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052026-2651\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2066
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052026-2651
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2064@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260811
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260812
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review August 11\, 2026 meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nSix matters\, and an unusual one first: a hearing on whether a person has standing to appeal at all\, before any valuation is argued. Then five appeals - two residential properties and three business personal property penalties for filing a listing late.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112026-2653\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2064
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112026-2653
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3821@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260814
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review August 13\, 2026 meeting agenda and minutes
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard four commercial property value appeals on August 13\, all from companies holding Chapel Hill real estate. The largest was 501 Midtown Apartments at 232 Butler Court\, assessed at $40\,394\,200. Also on the list were a property at 1602 E. Franklin Street\, two Paliouras Enterprises holdings at 157 E. Rosemary Street and 1404 E. Franklin Street\, and the appraisers assigned to each.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132026-2669\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3821
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132026-2669
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2231@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051233Z
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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