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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes Aoril 21. 2005 . Paoe 34 Board of Commissioners has instructed staff to pursue with entail. The actual text amendment that is before them removes the language from the ordinance. Right now the ordinance defines the make-up of this board. Rather than do it that way the commis$ioners instructed staff totake that out. In the future the make-up of the planning board be policy of the Board of Commissioners. Mr. Marshall said the ordinance will reference the planning board and its functions with the make-up of the board and the policy with that will simply be a policy issue for the Board of Commissioners and only considered by the commissioners. He said as it is now, it is a text amendment that this board will have to consider and provide a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners on it. Currently, as this board is awar~ we have the district membership based on townships. In addition, we have at-large and our alternate members are all at-large. This is proposing that the di$trict membership be by planned area instead. Our plan areas are inclusive of It he towns of Mt. Pleasant, Midland and Harrisburg. They do not include the towns of Kannapolis and Concord, although we have some planning jurisdiction overlapping the adopted plans, they do not include the heart of those. The proposal is you have the five planned areas represented by an individual and then you would also have one from Concord, one from Kannapolis, two at-Ia~ge members and the three alternates would remain at- large. Mr. Marshall. said In addition the commissioners asked staff about expertise of board members. They have been lobbied by some individuals with expertise to have at least a preference for that. So, if you had two individuals who are from the Mt.. Pleasant township and one had expertise that would be beneficial to the board, then there would be a preference for that selection, but not a requirement. Mr. Marshall said to the board the included maps in their packets is the existing fset-up and the proposed set-up. Ms. Burns asked is this going to give Concord and Kannapolis a vote on what happens in the uninconporated areas of the county. Mr. Marshall said the Board of Commissioners will still appoint these individuals, but the individuals will: come from these areas. There can be an individual from the incorporated area ~rom Concord who will sit on this board. He said this is not different, we have hadiindividuals from Concord and Kannapolis sit on this board. He said it will be a ci~izen representative who would fall within this area. Are they an advocate for t~at area? He said he think they are that is the reason we have district represent~tion. Ms. Burns said she understands that. She said we are talking about they would not be a person that wpuld officially represent that city and its policy. G-B