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UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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-3744@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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-3604@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened the public hearing on Fiddlehead Corner on 4 February 2025\, a housing cooperative's plan for a 55-and-over community on 90 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop. The application asked for 150 dwellings\; the applicant cut that to 100 at the hearing. After 33 people spoke\, the board continued the hearing to 6 March.\n\nThe project needs a rezoning from agricultural residential to a master plan conditional district\, amendments to the comprehensive plan\, and changes to the development ordinance. The Planning Board recommended denial of all three. The agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1779?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3604
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3742@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee spent 5 February 2025 on proposed rewrites to the county's subdivision rules\, initiated by the commissioners and the planning director to line up with the coming comprehensive plan update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3742
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3600@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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-3740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee took a first look on 9 April 2025 at two Unified Development Ordinance rewrites the planning director had initiated: telecommunications facilities and residential solar arrays. The committee takes no votes and needs no quorum\; both amendments went to the full board in May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3740
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3739@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250508
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board recommended two rewrites of the Unified Development Ordinance on 7 May 2025\, both headed to a commissioners' public hearing on 3 June. The telecommunications amendment repeals Section 5.10 outright and replaces it\, because the county's rules have not changed since the ordinance was adopted on 5 April 2011 and no longer match federal or state law. The solar amendment rewrites the standards for roof- and ground-mounted arrays as an accessory use\, last touched on 8 November 2012.\n\nThe emergency services director also presented the county's hazard mitigation plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05072025-2242\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3739
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05072025-2242
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3717@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe staff working group that administers the Orange County Transit Plan\, with representatives from the county\, GoTriangle\, the metropolitan planning organisation\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Mebane and Hillsborough. On the agenda: next year's meeting schedule\, the work programme amendment calendar\, and a revised matrix setting out which agency leads which function. Project sponsors then report in turn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2267\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3717
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2267
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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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UID:meeting-2250@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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-2248@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2218@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251118
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBoard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's transportation board takes up two informational items: an update on the county's bicycle and pedestrian plan for unincorporated areas\, and a staff report on a proposal to drop fares on the county's four fixed bus routes. The board also considers the June 2025 minutes\, added to the agenda\, and the October 20 minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2218
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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-2179@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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-2245@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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-2246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2244@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board's ordinance review committee met at 8 p.m. on February 4\, straight after the regular meeting\, to begin reviewing the planning director's amendments to the county's subdivision review processes and classifications.\n\nAttendance is optional and no quorum is needed\, so the committee takes no votes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2504\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2244
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2504
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2240@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2241@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board Training Session
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nA training session for recently appointed planning board members on the basics of land use regulation in the county\, led by staff. Attendance is voluntary\, no quorum is needed\, and nothing is decided. The board approved a summary of it at its June meeting\, so it is on the record as a meeting rather than an internal briefing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2593\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2241
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2593
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2238@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe ordinance review committee\, meeting straight after the regular board with 85 pages of proposed development ordinance amendments in front of it. Attendance is voluntary and no quorum is needed - this is where the text is worked over before the board recommends on it.\n\nThe package is the planning director's omnibus set\, and it kept coming back: the committee took it again on 1 July\, 12 August and 2 September\, each time carried forward. Much of it is the table of permitted uses\, the grid that decides which uses are allowed\, allowed with conditions\, or need a special use permit in each zoning district - farm supply stores\, feed mills\, commercial stables\, stockyards and livestock markets among them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2238
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2239@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board Training
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nA training session rather than a meeting: staff walk recently appointed planning board members through the basics of land use regulation in Orange County. Attendance is voluntary and no quorum is needed\, so nothing is decided.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2619\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2239
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2619
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2235@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board ordinance review committee meets July 1\, right after the regular meeting\, to review the planning director's omnibus amendments to the development ordinance. The changes touch frontage and setback rules\, accessory dwelling unit standards\, and home occupation permits. They also cover street trees\, subdivision buffers\, RV use standards and school zoning. The item was tabled from the June 3 meeting for lack of time. Attendance is optional and no quorum is required\, since the committee does not vote.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2633\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2235
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2633
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2234@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Planning Board's ordinance review committee\, meeting after the regular board. One item\, held over from 1 July: the planning director's omnibus development ordinance amendments\, described as mainly housekeeping. Attendance is voluntary and no quorum is needed\, so this is where the text gets worked over rather than decided. The same item was carried again to 2 September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2647\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2234
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2647
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
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:20261014T031151Z
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-2232@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031151Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Planning Board's ordinance review committee\, meeting straight after the regular board meeting. One item\, carried over from July and August: a set of development ordinance amendments the planning director started\, covering several topics and described as mainly housekeeping. Attendance is voluntary for board members and no quorum is needed\, so nothing here is decided - the committee works text over before it reaches the board.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2660\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2232
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2660
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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