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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240930T180000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting Agenda Between the Town of Siler City Board of Commissioners and the Chatham County Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Siler City Aging Services Building Located at 112 Village Lake Road\, Siler City\, NC 27344
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners met with the Siler City town board at the Siler City aging services building on 30 September 2024. The town's parks and recreation director reported on its master plan: six parks\, a gymnasium\, a sports complex\, an aquatic facility\, a veterans memorial and a greenway\, with recent work at Washington Park and Boling Lane Park.\n\nThey also took the reappraisal program ahead of the 2025 revaluation\, the county's reentry program\, and the TriRiver utility merger talks.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/9/1394_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-09-30_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4244
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1394&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4245@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T163000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners held the public hearing on the draft Unified Development Ordinance on 7 October 2024\, and heard where the county's three water districts stand in the TriRiver merger talks.\n\nThey also bought the Johnson Heirs parcel on Bynum Beach Road for $43\,000\, a tract beside the South Bynum river access.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/10/1396_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-10-07_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4245
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1396&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners adopted the 2024 farmland protection plan on 21 October 2024\, the first update since 2009\, along with a protection blueprint running to 2028 and the year's farmland preservation trust fund budget.\n\nThey held the hearing on the draft schedule of values for the 2025 revaluation and a hearing on the subdivision text amendment on concept plans\, and held back the Sanford water merger vote until the full board was present.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/10/1370_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-10-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4246
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1370&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting Between the Town of Pittsboro and Chatham County
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center - 1192 U.S. Hwy 64 West Business\, Pittsboro\, NC 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners met with the Pittsboro town board on 28 October 2024. The reappraisal was the first item\, with the tax administrator and the county's consultant walking both boards through equalization\, valuation and appeals ahead of the 2025 revaluation.\n\nThey also took the Unified Development Ordinance\, then three weeks from adoption\, a mixed-use redevelopment initiative on town and county parcels in Pittsboro\, the utility mergers with TriRiver\, and Pittsboro's scenic corridor overlay.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/10/1393_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-10-28_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4247
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1393&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4248@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners voted on 4 November 2024 to merge the county's water system and its three water districts into the City of Sanford's\, and set new water rates and system development fees to take effect 1 March 2025. The county keeps land use control: its own development ordinance governs what gets built.\n\nThey also worked through the last open questions on the Unified Development Ordinance before adopting it a fortnight later\, and saw the 2026-2032 capital plan.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/11/1374_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-11-04_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4248
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1374&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T180000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners adopted the Recode Chatham Unified Development Ordinance on 18 November 2024\, ending four years of work. Three weeks later the General Assembly overrode a veto on Senate Bill 382\, which removed local downzoning authority\, and the ordinance has not taken effect since.\n\nThe same evening drew about thirty-five comments\, most of them on a Dollar General proposed at NC 87 and Castle Rock Farm Road in Hadley Township. That rezoning hearing was held and referred to the Planning Board. The board also held the hearing on the 2026-2032 capital plan and honored the outgoing chair.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/11/1400_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-11-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4249
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1400&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T190000
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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 heard a state geologist on the county's groundwater on 11 March 2025\, approved two voluntary agricultural district applications covering 99.35 acres\, and recommended three farmland preservation projects covering 366 acres to the commissioners.\n\nThe geologist said a groundwater vulnerability study could identify areas where new wells should not go. Nobody in North Carolina is doing one\, and it would be a way to steer development away from fragile groundwater.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/71721/638773726910670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4318
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47296/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T150000
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-4262@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
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-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-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-4267@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T203000
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 took two large subdivisions and a wastewater plant rezoning on 2 September 2025. Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge is 107 lots on 622.32 acres off Rock Rest Road and Old Graham Road\, tabled from August. Harris Ridge is 49 lots on 138.58 acres off NC 42. The rezoning would put a wastewater treatment plant on 21.417 acres inside the Conservancy at Jordan Lake subdivision.\n\nThree items rode on consent: a revision to the Vickers Village compact community phasing schedule\, a twelve-month extension of its 183-lot first plat\, and a text amendment allowing automobile sales and service in light industrial districts. The board also adopted the ordinance establishing itself and sent the flooding working group's recommendations to the commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74328/638917297122830000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4267
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/48172/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-72@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
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-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
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
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-80@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Capital Improvement Plan Work Session
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners review the FY2027-2033 capital improvement plan at a November 18 work session\, covering dozens of projects in infrastructure\, facilities\, parks and technology. The agenda also includes a presentation on general obligation bonds\, with a possible 2026 referendum\, and early planning for the board's January budget retreat\, including whether affordable housing gets its own dedicated session.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/11/1431_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/80
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1431&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-85@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260216T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners open with a work session covering the county's FY2025 financial audit\, a resident satisfaction survey\, and a review of board rules of procedure. In the regular session\, an eight-item consent agenda handles routine business -- an NCDOT street resolution\, a resolution of intent to close part of NC Highway 902\, an amended Northeast District Park dam ordinance\, budget amendments\, tax refunds\, an economic-development contract increase\, private road naming\, and a 131-lot subdivision final plat. Separately\, the board adopts a Black History Month proclamation\, a resolution backing state juvenile-justice funding requests\, an amended project ordinance for Parkers Ridge Park\, and an $8.3 million construction contract with Blum Construction for the same park.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/2/1441_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-02-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/85
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1441&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4104@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Environmental Review Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Review Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Environmental Review Advisory Committee met by video on 12 March and put three subjects on its own list: researching data centers and advising the commissioners\, whether to look into the land application of municipal sewage sludge in the county\, and how the planning board receives the committee's environmental impact reviews.\n\nIt also discussed changes to the Fearrington Preserve environmental impact assessment. The data center proposal went to the Climate Change Advisory Committee on 26 March as a joint working group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75942/639083225183270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4104
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52247/775
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-87@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center\, 1192 US Hwy 64 West\, Pittsboro\, NC 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis is Chatham County's annual legislative breakfast\, a special meeting where the county\, the Town of Pittsboro\, the Town of Siler City\, Chatham County Schools\, and Central Carolina Community College each present their 2026 legislative priorities to the county's state legislative delegation. It's informational\, not a voting meeting.\n\nState legislators give remarks in response before the meeting adjourns.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/3/1450_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/87
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1450&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4065@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Emergency Operations Center\, 112 Innovation Way Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board held its first working session on data centers on 14 April\, two months into the twelve-month moratorium the commissioners had adopted in February. Staff presented the research behind the question and the board set out what it wanted to settle in the time it had.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76515/639113375963570000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4065
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52515/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4060@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012952Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260714T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260714T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Emergency Operations Center\, 112 Innovation Way Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board spent 14 July on the technical limits it might write into data center rules: noise\, vibration and light\, heat emissions\, generators and back-up power\, and water use. Staff opened with the timeline for the moratorium the commissioners adopted on 11 February and a legal review\, and the vice chair introduced each subject in turn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77434/639195376605670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4060
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53424/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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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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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:20260818T183000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board met on 18 August to write data center rules rather than to debate whether to have them. The commissioners had directed it to regulate the use rather than prohibit it\, and after two open meetings and a round of public comment the board had a redline draft of ordinance changes to work through line by line.\n\nThe agenda was three items: overarching regulations for data centers\, a review of the proposed text amendments\, and the July minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77834/639221413042270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4057
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53894/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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