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UID:meeting-4251@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241202T180000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners organized themselves for the new term on 2 December 2024. A superior court judge swore in Karen Howard and Amanda Robertson\, the board elected Howard chair and Katie Kenlan vice chair\, and it approved two items on consent.\n\nA reception followed. Nothing else was on the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/12/1380_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-12-02_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4251
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1380&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4319@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241210T190000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board elected officers on 10 December 2024\, approved two voluntary agricultural district applications and turned down a third\, and heard what the Unified Development Ordinance will mean for farmland.\n\nThe ordinance creates an agricultural zoning district meant to protect prime soils and working farms\, mostly north and south of Siler City. The county then has to rezone itself to match\, and nobody had approved a process or a timeline for that.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/71715/638773726062070000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4319
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/43232/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4275@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T183000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board recommended cutting the first phase of The Conservancy at Jordan Lake from 322 lots to 163 on 7 January 2025\, and dropping the per-phase lot counts from the development schedule altogether. The developer's argument was that the total lot count and the ten-year deadline do not change.\n\nThe board also planned its year\, including updating its code of ethics and implementing the Unified Development Ordinance if that became possible.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/71119/638703050758600000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4275
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/46006/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4254@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T150000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners set up their property tax relief program on 21 January 2025\, $200\,000 paying up to $500 each to low-income homeowners\, and awarded $150\,000 from the housing trust fund to Rebuilding Together of the Triangle.\n\nThey also heard what Senate Bill 382 does to the Unified Development Ordinance the county had adopted two months earlier. The weather cut the meeting short before the appointments\, which were made in special session on 30 January.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/1/1402_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-01-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4254
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1402&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4255@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T180000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners met in special session on 30 January 2025 to finish work the weather had cut short nine days earlier. They made their appointments to state and regional boards and settled on a plan for signs honoring George Moses Horton.\n\nThe 2022 resolution asked for honorary designation signs along the whole 22.5 miles of US 15-501 in the county. State rules cap an honorary designation at five miles and require the person to have died within the last 75 years\, which the poet\, who died around 1883\, has not.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/1/1403_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-01-30_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4255
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1403&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4274@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T183000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board elected its officers on 4 February 2025 and spent the rest of the meeting on the three documents that govern it: its rules of procedure\, its code of ethics\, and the county ordinance that establishes it.\n\nIt also received an introduction to the plans and rules along the US 15-501 corridor\, which came back as a full presentation in March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/71320/638735849076830000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4274
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/46008/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4256@govwatch
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Meeting Adjourned Due To Lack of Quorum
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners could not hold their 17 February 2025 meeting. Two commissioners came\, which is not a quorum\, and the meeting adjourned at 3:10 without taking anything up.\n\nThe agenda carried a full afternoon and evening: presentations from Vaya Health and the conservation working group\, a quasi-judicial hearing on a new EMS station\, a Black History Month resolution\, and a long consent agenda. Almost all of it came back on 17 March.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/2/1408_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-02-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4256
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1408&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4259@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T130000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners worked through the agenda their February meeting never reached\, on 17 March 2025. They opened a quasi-judicial hearing on a new EMS station at 9251 US 15-501 N\, appointed members to the Planning Board and four other committees\, and adopted resolutions for Black History Month\, Women's History Month\, Black Maternal Health Week and the community library's twentieth anniversary.\n\nThe District 4 Planning Board appointment drew four written objections\, all of them saying the appointee lives in District 2 while qualified applicants from District 4 had applied.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/3/1399_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-03-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4259
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1399&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4260@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T130000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners committed $1.29 million in opioid settlement money to treatment\, recovery support\, early intervention\, naloxone and recovery housing on 21 April 2025. They also approved the year's farmland preservation grants\, received the 2023-2024 greenhouse gas inventory\, and heard the climate committee's case for a climate retreat.\n\nIn the evening they adopted a resolution honoring free speech\, opened a rezoning hearing at 680 Pea Ridge Road and a hearing on pushing the Unified Development Ordinance's effective date to 31 December\, and terminated the county's agreement with the Chatham Rescue Squad of Siler City.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/4/1412_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-04-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4260
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1412&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4323@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T190000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 24 April 2025\, three days after the commissioners agreed to hold a climate retreat on the committee's recommendation. It reviewed the county's 2024 greenhouse gas inventory and saw the county's new GIS conservation viewer.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/72154/638810119692070000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4323
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47352/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4261@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's manager laid the recommended 2025-2026 budget before the commissioners on 5 May 2025: $288.3 million\, with a tax rate of 60 cents per $100 against the current 72.5 cents. This is the first budget after the 2025 revaluation\, and the revenue neutral rate would be 52.96 cents\, so the recommended rate is a real increase against the new values.\n\nThe board also gave staff direction on rewriting the advisory committee policy\, and adopted a resolution objecting to the planning and zoning bills moving through the General Assembly.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/5/1422_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-05-05_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4261
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1422&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4262@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners held the first budget hearing for 2025-2026 on 19 May 2025 and drew the largest turnout of the year. Dozens spoke or wrote\, on the Haw River State Trail\, a part-time arborist\, a day program for adults with disabilities\, a full-time election coordinator\, and master's pay for teachers.\n\nThe board also heard a quasi-judicial hearing on a fueling station at the Chatham Downs shopping center\, took a waiver request for a pump-and-haul wastewater option at Briar Chapel\, appointed five members to the Housing Authority\, and adopted resolutions recognizing Juneteenth as an official county holiday and Pride Month.\n\nIn the afternoon it received the quarterly American Rescue Plan update\, the third-quarter budget update\, and a presentation from Chatham Economic Development.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/5/1411_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-05-19_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4262
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1411&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4322@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 22 May 2025 to work out what the commissioners' climate retreat should produce\, and to take up the county's new advisory committee policy.\n\nA member was also preparing a framework of climate indicators\, and the committee was looking for a new member.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/72790/638832557312700000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4322
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47359/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4317@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Little Way Farm\, 5778 Siler City Snow Camp Road Siler City\, North Carolina 27344
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met at Little Way Farm outside Siler City on 10 June 2025\, its last meeting of the fiscal year. It elected officers\, heard that the county has won a $295\,000 state grant for farmland preservation\, and reviewed House Bill 126.\n\nThe farm's owner\, a board member\, described running a direct-to-consumer meat and honey business in its fifth year\, mostly on subscriptions shipped or delivered.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73012/638846320007130000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4317
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47298/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4265@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250616T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250616T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners adopted the 2025-2026 budget on 16 June 2025 and opened four rezoning hearings\, all of them referred on to the Planning Board with nobody signed up to speak.\n\nIn the afternoon work session they widened the low income tax relief program\, adopted a rewritten advisory committee policy\, and approved two signs on US 15-501 honoring George Moses Horton\, the enslaved poet known as the Bard of Chatham. The consent agenda carried thirty-eight items\, among them the Berrybrook Crossing subdivision at 188 lots on 232 acres\, a rezoning at 680 Pea Ridge Road\, three solid waste hauling contracts and a $275\,081-a-year Microsoft licensing agreement.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/6/1413_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-06-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4265
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1413&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4328@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Parks & Recreation Office\, 964 East Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met on 18 June 2025 and recommended funding two recreation agency grants in full: $9\,000 for the Youth Sprott Center and $4\,537.08 for the Deep River Park Association. It also took up changes to the grant application\, an update on Parker's Ridge\, and trail projects.\n\nThe county did not win the AP grant it applied for\, and is waiting on a decision on a state parks grant in August.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73123/638854131139370000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4328
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47024/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4321@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 26 June 2025. The commissioners had not taken up the climate retreat at their 16 June meeting\, and the committee spent its time on the retreat's new timing and what preparation it owed. It also reviewed what is left of federal climate funding.\n\nA member demonstrated a mapping tool that puts revenue and service cost side by side for different kinds of development.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73204/638862722296700000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4321
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47360/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-70@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners adopted proclamations for Overdose Awareness Day and National Breastfeeding Month\, honored NBA draft pick Drake Powell\, and worked through a large consent agenda of contracts\, grants and committee reappointments. The board also opened a public hearing on updated Planning Board ordinance rules\, continued to the following month\, and heard the county attorney explain why a car wash's wastewater disposal plan near Briar Chapel does not require board approval as a waiver\, over strong opposition from nearby residents.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/7/1414_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-07-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/70
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1414&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4210@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250731T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250731T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 31 July 2025\, with a guest presentation on spreading basalt fines across farmland: Sunrock's quarry waste used for enhanced weathering\, which pulls carbon dioxide out of the air while conditioning soil.\n\nThe committee also worked on the climate retreat and selecting new members.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73881/638894619777000000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4210
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47361/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-71@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners held an afternoon work session on housing programs\, Tropical Depression Chantal recovery\, and a planned climate retreat\, then a 6 p.m. regular session with a 20-item consent agenda and four legislative public hearings on rezonings\, including a contested plan to expand a wastewater treatment plant inside the Conservancy at Jordan Lake subdivision into a regional utility.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/8/1424_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-08-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/71
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1424&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4209@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 28 August 2025\, after the commissioners approved a two-day climate retreat and asked the committee to take a bigger part in it. The committee also previewed applications for its own vacancies under a selection process that had just changed.\n\nThe environmental quality director reported on waste and fleet work.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74312/638917133454100000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4209
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47362/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4192@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Fidelis Fields Farm\, 424 Jim Moody Rd. Siler City\, North Carolina 27344
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met at Fidelis Fields Farm in Siler City on 9 September 2025. It reviewed a voluntary agricultural district application\, took up the county's new advisory committee policy\, and reviewed candidates for its own vacancies.\n\nThe board also heard about House Bill 126\, which gives voluntary agricultural district members a right to a hearing when their zoning changes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74397/638924949066170000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4192
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/49370/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-72@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners took up a rezoning fight over Bear Creek Fabrication's plan to expand into 10 acres of neighboring residential land near Campbell Road\, and a proposal to push back the Unified Development Ordinance's effective date to December 2026 because of a state downzoning law still tied up in the legislature. The consent agenda carried $405\,000 for ten police vehicles\, $143\,000 for two more\, a $100\,000 public health grant\, and several county contracts and land-use approvals\, alongside eight advisory board appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/9/1416_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-09-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/72
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1416&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4208@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 25 September 2025\, mostly on the two-day climate retreat the commissioners had approved for 17 October and 6 November. A member presented a set of climate indicators for the county.\n\nThe agenda also carried a notice of the county's public input session on the regional hazard mitigation plan\, held 30 September at the emergency operations center on Innovation Way.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74597/638941544691370000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4208
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47363/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-76@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners held a packed October 20\, 2025 work session and regular meeting: a rezoning to allow a new wastewater treatment plant within the Conservancy at Jordan Lake subdivision\, a public hearing to join the C-PACE commercial energy-financing program\, and three separate subdivision and phasing requests tied to major developments. The board also approved gymnasium replacements at three K-8 schools and $701\,340 in renovations to the Aging Services Western Center in Siler City.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/10/1437_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-10-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/76
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1437&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-77@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T180000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners consider a resolution supporting a constitutional amendment that would deny corporations the legal rights of natural persons and allow regulation of campaign spending. The board also takes up revisions to the Vickers Village conditional district off US 15-501 North: an extended phasing schedule\, a twenty-four month extension for the development's 183-lot first plat\, and a fee-in-lieu agreement in place of building the project's required affordable housing units.\n\nOn consent\, the board considers writing off $12\,908.48 in Public Health Department debt\, accepting $73\,000 for a UNC-Chapel Hill heart health research partnership\, and expanding the Climate Change Advisory Committee from nine to eleven members with two new appointments. The agenda also includes presentations on the MoveChatham transportation plan\, the county's draft FY2027-2033 capital improvement plan\, and options for selecting a new county attorney.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/11/1438_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-03_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/77
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1438&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-79@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners take up a first-plat review for Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge\, a 107-lot subdivision on 622 acres off Rock Rest and Old Graham roads\, at a joint work session and regular meeting. The agenda also includes public hearings on a countywide zoning text amendment to permit gyms and yoga studios in Industrial Light districts and a 66-acre rezoning at 3378 Christian Chapel Church Road for a recreational facility\, plus a consent agenda covering park\, library and reappraisal contracts.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/11/1426_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/79
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1426&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4226@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Parks & Recreation Office\, 964 East Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met on 19 November 2025 at the parks and recreation office with park funding at the top of the list\, ethics training\, an update on Parker's Ridge\, and its annual report. It also adopted its 2026 meeting dates and took up members' terms.\n\nThe agenda is a ten-line list with no staff report behind it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75099/638986487437830000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4226
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47028/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-81@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251215T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board's Monday session opens with a work session covering four presentations: an update on the county's 1980s-era architectural survey\, a briefing from managed-care provider Vaya Health\, a recap of a two-day climate retreat with the Central Pines Regional Council\, and a review of trail and open-space projects. Commissioners are also asked to award $325\,000 in Housing Trust Fund grants and a $1\,094\,800 supplementary loan for affordable housing\, and to hear a $1.4 million reimbursement request from Chatham County Schools tied to underfunded charter transfers. A closed session is added to negotiate a real estate purchase.\n\nThe regular session's consent agenda covers a full slate of contracts\, tax releases\, board appointments\, and the FY27-33 Capital Improvements Plan. The board also considers two large rural subdivisions -- Pine Tree Creek's 11 lots and Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge's 107 lots -- and holds a public hearing on writing the state fire code's road-access standards into the county's subdivision rules. December's agenda also includes the annual election of a chair and vice chair and a resolution honoring outgoing County Attorney Robert Hagemann.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/12/1427_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-12-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/81
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1427&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners cleared a long\, mostly routine consent agenda covering appointments\, interlocal hazardous-waste agreements with Cary and Pittsboro\, a hazard mitigation plan\, budget amendments\, tax refunds\, a recycling grant\, and two zoning matters: a text amendment letting recreation facilities like gyms and yoga studios locate in Industrial Light districts\, and a 66-acre rezoning off Christian Chapel Church Road for a recreation facility. All consent items passed together on one motion.\n\nOutside the consent agenda\, the board adopted a resolution marking the Haw River Trail's 20th anniversary and one honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, took quarterly updates on ARPA funds and the FY26 budget\, and voted to hold a public hearing on February 11 to begin considering a moratorium on new data centers and crypto-mining facilities in the county. The board also went into closed session for attorney-client consultation before adjourning.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/1/1444_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-01-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/83
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1444&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4225@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting via Teams\,
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met by video on 22 January for an update on Parker's Ridge\, follow-up from December\, and a look ahead to the annual report and officer nominations. Members' terms were also on the list.\n\nThe agenda is a nine-line list with no staff report behind it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75619/639090069510470000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4225
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50241/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4201@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 22 January to debrief the report it gave the commissioners at their budget retreat and to take up the data center moratorium. Three members' terms were due to end on 28 February.\n\nNew business also covered Orange County's RIPPLE award for local environmental and climate work.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75641/639044967227270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4201
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/51431/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4190@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met on 10 March at the agriculture center to review membership applications\, take the farmland preservation report\, and plan the annual update it presents to the commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75735/639057216608130000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4190
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/51635/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4224@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\,
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met by video on 18 March to build the annual report it takes to the commissioners on 20 April\, and to hear where Parker's Ridge stands. It also took recreation agency application dates and nominations for chair and vice chair.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76031/639090069233000000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4224
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50243/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-88@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis regular meeting opens with a large consent agenda (25 items) covering routine business: a Board of Health reappointment\, a surplus-property sale\, closing a defunct library foundation fund\, an Agriculture and Conference Center Phase II project ordinance\, FY2025-26 budget amendments\, several small state and federal health grants\, tax collection reports\, a road-naming request\, a wedding pyrotechnics permit\, and contracts for software\, an audit\, a nutrition-services provider\, and county health insurance. The one larger consent item is a request from the Silk Hope Volunteer Fire Department to hold a public hearing on up to $10 million in tax-exempt borrowing.\n\nOutside consent\, commissioners hear an update on the Pittsboro Redevelopment Project and a farmland-preservation funding request (both tabled to the next meeting)\, approve a 60-lot Bramblewood subdivision plat off US 64 West\, and take up several Climate Change Advisory Committee recommendations\, including a resolution on state energy policy addressed to Governor Stein. That resolution and a related committee appointment slate both failed on their first vote\, then passed in revised form later in the meeting after a closed session. The Board also approves a $1.42 million one-time reimbursement to Chatham County Schools for prior-year charter-school costs and goes into closed session for attorney-client consultation.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/3/1451_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-24_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/88
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1451&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4199@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 26 March. It took feedback from the commissioners' meeting two days earlier and a proposal from the Environmental Review Advisory Committee for a joint working group with the planning department to research the impacts of data centers.\n\nNew business was a discussion of available energy sources.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76465/639100310984470000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4199
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52255/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4066@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board elected its officers and took three subdivisions on 7 April: Conservancy Estates\, 45 lots on 57 acres off Conservancy Parkway\; Hickory Mountain Reserve\, 48 lots on 164.20 acres off Pleasant Hill Church Road\; and Webster Farm\, 132 lots on 182.98 acres off Buckner Clark Road.\n\nUnder board members' items staff presented on data centers\, their associated uses and their impacts in the county\, and the planning director reported on implementing the development ordinance under Senate Bill 382.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76475/639104775217670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4066
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52237/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-90@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners open an afternoon work session with proclamations for Child Abuse Prevention Month\, Foster Care Awareness Month\, Black Maternal Health Week and Older Americans Month\, plus a resolution opposing state limits on county property tax authority. The agenda adds presentations on farmland preservation funding\, the Pittsboro Redevelopment Project\, a regional transportation needs study and a new GIS flood-mapping tool\, along with a review of the board's own rules of procedure and a discussion of the county's contract with Flock Safety\, a license-plate-reader camera vendor.\n\nThe evening regular session carries a long consent agenda -- budget amendments\, tax administration items\, a $251\,294 state trails grant\, a Duke Energy street-lighting easement in Pittsboro\, and a subdivision ordinance update tied to state fire code -- followed by five public hearings: closing a stretch of NC Highway 902\, delaying the county's Unified Development Ordinance effective date\, a 292-acre rezoning to heavy industrial off Christian Chapel Church Road\, a joint land-use plan amendment with Cary near Earnest Jones Road\, and a 372-acre conditional-district rezoning off Andrews Store Road.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/4/1462_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-04-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/90
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1462&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4180@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Affordable Housing Advisory Committee
LOCATION:Salvation Army of Chatham County Field Office\, 126 Village Lake Rd Siler City\, North Carolina 27344
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Affordable Housing Advisory Committee filled seats and heard from the county housing authority on 7 May. Amy Hughes and Drew Falvey were appointed to replace two departing members\, George Cianciolo and Susan Levy were reappointed\, and the vice chair's seat was open for nomination.\n\nLee Staton\, the housing authority's executive director\, presented on what the authority does and where it could expand or work with the county. Staff also brought recommendations for realigning the committee's working groups.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77105/639159138786800000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4180
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53091/5382
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4115@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Elections Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Board of Elections Office\, 964 East Street\, Suite 101 Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nChatham County's Board of Elections took up early voting for the November election at its 19 May meeting and set a date to appoint the officials who would run it. It also adopted a resolution redrawing the West Siler City precinct lines so that the precinct includes its own polling place.\n\nOther business was the 2027 budget update\, the director's report\, and a sample letter from Rowan County on extending the time allowed to research provisional ballots. The board closed the meeting to approve closed session minutes and discuss election security. The agenda is a scan\, marked tentative.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77043/639148673943170000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4115
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50318/5665
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4189@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260609T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260609T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met on 9 June at Woodland Farm on NC 902 and took its first update on the Enbridge pipeline\, the item that would occupy it through the summer. It also reviewed voluntary agricultural district applications\, discussed a new member application\, and took the farmland preservation report.\n\nThe board set its next meeting for 8 September\, and in the event held a special meeting on 30 July to call a public hearing on the pipeline for 18 August.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77123/639159981209330000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4189
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53105/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-95@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners adopted the FY 2026-2027 Budget Ordinance on June 15\, alongside amended financial and budgetary policies and several capital project ordinance amendments covering a Chatham County Schools HVAC replacement\, Briar Chapel Park (including a Phase II project)\, an Emergency Operations Center expansion\, and a new Sheriff's Office administration building. The evening's public hearings include a $14 million capital-investment economic development incentive grant request for Mosaic Hospitality LLC\, a legislative rezoning of about 20.7 acres on Silk Hope Gum Springs Road for outdoor sports fields including cricket grounds\, and a quasi-judicial Special Use Permit for a contractor's storage yard on Campbell Road in Bear Creek requested by Lockley Holdings\, LLC -- a case that would still be unresolved when it reappeared on the board's August 17 agenda. Two large subdivisions\, Webster Farm (132 lots) and Hickory Mountain Reserve (48 lots)\, come up for first-plat approval\; both cases would appear again\, apparently undecided\, on the board's July 27 agenda.\n\nThe consent agenda runs to dozens of routine contracts -- solid waste hauling and recycling agreements\, software and IT subscription renewals\, a Human Services Funding Program-style Home and Community Care Block Grant acceptance of $724\,467\, School Nurse funding with Chatham County Schools\, and pyrotechnics display permits for two July 4 events. The board also receives a presentation on filling a District 3 Board of Commissioners vacancy. Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and public comment on the hearings are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/6/1459_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-06-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/95
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1459&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4082@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Appearance Commission Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Appearance Commission\n\nChatham County's Appearance Commission voted on 24 June to send its revised design guidelines to the commissioners for a public hearing and adoption. Those guidelines reached the county board's consent agenda on 21 September\, with a suggested plant list and an invasive plant list for commercial and industrial development.\n\nThe commission also took the DJ Event Center rezoning for a third review\, a new commercial location for the proposed Fearrington Preserve compact community off Andrews Store Road\, and an RTP Gardens proposal off US 64 East and Bob Horton Road for office and flex space with warehouse storage. May's meeting was cancelled\, so there were no minutes to approve\, and the commission welcomed a new member.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77273/639172996095430000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4082
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53627/5656
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 25 June with data center rules and the climate action plan procurement in front of it. The planning board had by then received the committee's core principles and guidance document for regulating data centers.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77311/639177396606530000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4196
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52261/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260706T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260706T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners' July 6 special session consists entirely of closed sessions: one to consider the qualifications\, competence\, or performance of a public officer or employee\, one for attorney-client consultation\, and one to discuss the location or expansion of industries or businesses in the county\, including possible economic development incentives. No public business is conducted.\n\nBecause the substance of closed sessions is not public\, no further detail is available here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/7/1477_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-07-06_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/97
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1477&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260721T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260721T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Elections Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Board of Elections Office\, 964 East Street\, Suite 101 Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nChatham County's Board of Elections approved the chief judges\, judges and assistants who will staff early voting for the 3 November election at its 21 July meeting. It also amended the delegation of the director's duties and responsibilities\, and voted to make the closed session minutes of 19 May a public record.\n\nThe agenda is marked tentative and carries no attachments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77552/639198784749030000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4113
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50324/5665
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners' July 27 session is one of the heaviest of the summer. On the consent agenda\, the board votes to direct the county attorney to send notice terminating the economic development agreement between the county and VinFast Manufacturing USA\, LLC -- ending an incentive deal for the electric vehicle plant. Also on consent: a $424\,550 five-year contract with Priority Dispatch for the Emergency Communications Center\, additional Farmland Preservation Fund money for the Dry Creek Farm conservation easement\, a quasi-judicial approval of a 199-foot wireless tower near Goldston\, and interlocal tax-collection agreements with Pittsboro\, Apex\, Cary\, Goldston\, and Siler City. The board also announces a special meeting for public comment on the proposed Enbridge Gas pipeline expansion (held the following week) and adopts a resolution backing the Downtown Pittsboro Public Properties Pre-Development Analysis.\n\nThe evening's public hearings and land-use votes are substantial: a legislative rezoning by Fearrington Property Development\, LLC of roughly 372 acres off Andrews Store\, Parker Herndon\, and Morris roads from Residential to a Conditional District Compact Community\; a vote on EC PROPCO\, LLC's 292-acre rezoning from Residential to Heavy Industrial off Christian Chapel Church Road\; and first-plat approvals for two large subdivisions -- Webster Farm (132 lots on 183 acres) and Hickory Mountain Reserve (48 lots on 164 acres). Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and public comment on these items are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/7/1479_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-07-27_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/98
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1479&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260817T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260817T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners' August 17 session runs an afternoon work session into an evening regular session with a heavy land-use docket. The regular session's consent agenda includes a $150\,000 Deep River State Trail feasibility study\, a $477\,558 economic development services contract\, two public safety radio tower repair contracts\, and a scheduled September 21 hearing on special-use-permit zoning text amendments. The evening brings four public hearings: county-initiated zoning text amendments to update bona fide farm exemptions and permitted-use tables for state-law compliance\; revised commercial and industrial landscaping design guidelines\; a rezoning of a 4.089-acre parcel on Bonlee Bennett Road from Neighborhood Business to Residential requested by Candace Beal\; and a quasi-judicial hearing on a proposed 199-foot wireless telecommunications tower on Andrews Store Road requested by Anthemnet\, Inc.\, open to evidence from people with standing on direct property impact.\n\nThe board then votes on two other land-use cases: a legislative rezoning by EC PROPCO\, LLC of 292.288 acres off Christian Chapel Church Road from Residential to Heavy Industrial -- by far the largest acreage change on this agenda -- and a quasi-judicial Special Use Permit for a contractor's storage yard on Campbell Road in Bear Creek. Only the agenda was available for this meeting\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and any public comment on these hearings are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/8/1481_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-08-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/100
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1481&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board reviewed its draft report on the Enbridge pipeline at its 8 September quarterly meeting\, three weeks after holding a public hearing on what the pipeline would do to farmland. The board discussed what to do next with it. That report reached the county commissioners on 21 September\, the same night they voted on a resolution opposing the pipeline.\n\nThe board also took an update on the farmland preservation program ordinance\, reviewed voluntary agricultural district applications\, elected officers\, and opened a new business item on an agricultural impacts committee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78090/639238575657430000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4186
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53107/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting
LOCATION:Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners meet in a special session built mostly around closed-door business. They would close the meeting three times. One session would cover economic development incentives for an industry considering a move to or expansion in the county. A second would cover the county's defense in ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County. A third would review the performance of a public officer or employee.\n\nThe consent agenda holds seven items. Commissioners would appoint Rob Schooley to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council. They would accept $4\,248 in family planning funds and $2\,700 for foster care\, both from state health officials. A $310\,000 federal-state contract with Chatham Transit Network would cover medical trips and rides to county centers. A separate $417\,135 agreement with the N.C. Forest Service\, split 60-40 with the state\, would fund forestry and wildfire work for another year. The agenda also includes a pyrotechnics permit for an October 2 display at Chatham Charter School. Commissioners would also name two private roads\, Stella Maris Way and Martin Brothers Lane.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1484_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3578
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1484&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Elections Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Board of Elections Office\, 964 East Street\, Suite 101 Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nChatham County's Board of Elections set its absentee ballot machinery for the coming election at its 15 September meeting. It took a resolution to begin counting absentee ballots on election day\, a second approving the absentee meeting schedule\, and approval of the election officials who will staff early voting and election day.\n\nThe board also scheduled logic and accuracy testing of the voting equipment\, which state law requires before every election\, and heard the director's report. The agenda is marked tentative and carries no attachments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78172/639249998326430000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4111
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50328/5665
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T203539Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T170000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners decide Monday evening on a special use permit for Lockley Holdings\, which wants to extend its contractor's storage yard onto 3.9 acres of pasture at 1656 Campbell Road in Bear Creek. The company withdrew a heavy industrial rezoning of the whole 10-acre tract in 2025 after neighbors objected. Five residents spoke against this narrower request at the June hearing\, citing noise from steel materials and semi-truck traffic at the Vernie Phillips Road turn. Staff find all five required findings met. The board also takes up a policy for moving remains from abandoned cemeteries\, which the county has never had.\n\nThe 3 p.m. session opens with a staff presentation on how to choose a new county attorney\, because the current one plans to step down. The board then goes into closed session on ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County. The evening consent agenda approves the space needs study and master plan for a future government campus on 277 acres near US 64 West and Renaissance Drive. It also approves a parking deal with Pittsboro for Lewis Freeman Park and a $55\,249 contract change on Parker's Ridge Park that does not raise the project's total cost.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/10/1486_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-10-05_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4682
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1486&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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