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Vote on a request to approve a Legislative request by the Chatham County Board of Commissioners to consider an amendment to the Chatham County Comprehensive Plan.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
Vote to approve on a Legislative request by the Chatham County Board of Commissioners to consider an amendment to the Chatham County Comprehensive Plan.
Introduction & Background:
During the November 20, 2017 Commissioners meeting, the comprehensive plan, Plan Chatham, was adopted by unanimous vote. Since adoption, there has only been one technical revision to the guiding document on January 16, 2018. A public hearing was held on this item during the January 21, 2020 Commissioners meeting and the comments that were provided are described in the Discussion & Analysis.
Discussion & Analysis:
A revision to the language in the Utilities Section should be considered to reflect the growing needs of the County to be able to locate public service facilities where needed in the County to serve the County (Attachment A). The second bullet point of Strategy 1.2 is considered for revision without changing the intent of the Recommendation 01 and Policy 01 which it is aimed at achieving. This request is also being submitted in conjunction with a text amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to allow greater flexibility in locating government facilities in the county.
A public hearing was held on January 21, 2020 and 19 spoke on this item (please note that comments were provided during the public hearing portion of the meeting, as well as the public comment portion which was held at the end of the public hearings). There were numerous residents in attendance during the Commissioners meeting with most residing in Briar Chapel. Based on the comments provided during the hearing it appeared that many of those providing feedback thought the proposed amendments included revisions to Section 1.1 of the Utilities section, which is specific to decentralized wastewater systems and their ability t...
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