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Stormwater and flooding items in Orange County, between 3 Sep 2025 and 3 Sep 2026

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Stormwater and flooding23
Environment and sustainability11
Tax rate and revaluation10
Water and sewer6
Zoning text amendment6
Health and human services5
Budget and appropriations4
Housing and affordability4
Land conversion and large development3
Schools and education3
Farmland and open space2
Rezoning2
  1. Wed, Sep 2 Orange County · Planning Board
    Planning director-initiated amendments to several sections of the Unified Development Ordinance, which staff say are required by changes in state law. The board makes a recommendation to the county commissioners.
  2. Tue, Aug 11 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    A value appeal on a property flooded during tropical storm Chantal in 2025. The county recommended no change and the owner's own figure matched it.
    No change; value stands at $52,000, 3-0
  3. Wed, Aug 5 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    An appeal arguing a property in a flood zone should be assessed at $140,000 rather than $162,100.
    No change, value held at $162,100, 3-0
  4. Thu, Jul 9 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Fifteen consent items, including the first fiscal 2026-27 budget amendment, a state grant for a mobile integrated health program, financial policies for the transit tax working group, the Rigsbee subdivision preliminary plat, a reinstated interlocal agreement with Chapel Hill, and a Duke Energy grant for a flood detec…
    Approved unanimously.
  5. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Consent items including a Pollinator Week proclamation, a resolution supporting Tobacco 21 against youth vaping, the year's twelfth budget amendment, an amended contract with Clarion Associates for a comprehensive plan, and an emergency watershed protection agreement with the federal conservation service.
    Approved.
  6. Tue, Apr 7 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A county-initiated amendment moving the boundary between the Jordan Lake unprotected watershed overlay district and the University Lake protected watershed overlay district across one unaddressed parcel of about 19.4 acres in Bingham Township. Protected watersheds are both part of the county's delegated stormwater man…
    Statement of consistency and amendment approved unanimously
  7. Mon, Mar 23 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county's 2026 priority legislative issues, matched to the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners' 2025-26 advocacy goals and the county's FY 2025-29 strategic plan. Farmland preservation is a top-six goal. Others include protecting clean water supplies and watersheds, state funding for disaster mitigat…
  8. Wed, Feb 4 Orange County · Planning Board
    A county-initiated amendment moving the boundary between the Jordan Lake unprotected watershed overlay district and the University Lake protected watershed overlay district across one unaddressed parcel of about 19.4 acres off Dodson's Crossroads at Arden Estate Court, a newly established private road, in Bingham Town…
    Recommended to the county commissioners unanimously; adopted by them on April 7
  9. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    The owner of this 87,730-square-foot Mebane warehouse sought a reduction from $5,428,500 to $5,000,000, citing a 2022 sale price of $4,950,000 and a market proforma. The county said the sale involved below-market legacy leases and limited site access, and after accounting for that recommended $5,265,700. The board acc…
  10. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    McAdoo appealed his $231,300 Mebane home, arguing it was overvalued compared to neighborhood homes and that aerial-measured square footage included non-living space. A county site visit found the disputed area appeared heated and cooled, but staff recommended reclassifying a deck as an open porch and adding a floodpla…
  11. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Thirteen items approved together: five sets of minutes; motor vehicle and property tax releases for eighteen taxpayers; sixteen late exemption applications; a March 25 tax lien advertisement date; the 2026 listing period extended to February 13; budget amendment #6; ordinance execution for the impervious surface, wate…
    Approved unanimously
  12. Fri, Jan 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A review of how the county is tracking against its strategic plan. Mobility on Demand wait times fell from 22 to 19 minutes against a 15-minute target. Homelessness cases stay open because placements and rental support are not available. Cold weather shelter beds in northern Orange County went unused and that programm…
  13. Dec 10, 2025 Orange County · Board of Adjustment
    An evidentiary hearing on a major modification to the school's 2015 special use permit and site plan, updating the campus master plan for buildings phased over ten years. Student population would rise from about 294 to roughly 350 by 2035 with staff from 48 to 55, while total approved new square footage falls from 56,…
  14. Dec 3, 2025 Orange County · Planning Board
    Planning director-initiated amendments to the unified development ordinance covering error corrections, recent state law changes, internal inconsistencies and school needs. The committee discussed rules applying to UNC school system property and their effect on other entities, erosion control waivers and permitting, z…
  15. Nov 20, 2025 Orange County · Housing Authority Board
    Voucher holders may select a unit in a flood zone and the housing authority cannot deny tenancy on that basis. The authority has drafted an acknowledgement form telling prospective tenants the unit is in a floodplain, encouraging renter's insurance because the landlord bears no responsibility for displacement, and ide…
  16. Nov 18, 2025 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    Lauren M. Marchetti appealed the $2,263,100 assessment on this lakefront home, entirely in the FEMA AE floodplain, citing a 109.72% tax increase against a street average of 80.82% and a lower building grade than a similarly sized neighbor valued less. The county recommended only a -15% floodplain adjustment, but the b…
    Nine reduced, four unchanged
  17. Nov 18, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Planning director-initiated amendments to simplify impervious surface limits and existing development definitions across the county's thirteen watershed protection overlay districts, delete the obsolete sliding scale table, and refine minimum reservoir buffer widths in the Upper Eno critical watershed overlay to accom…
    Approved unanimously
  18. Nov 14, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A professional engineer with forty years in local land development presented on on-site and community wastewater systems. Key points: the engineered option permit lets private engineers design, self-check and permit systems, with state review now covering about 10 percent of large designs; suitable soil is scarce in O…
  19. Nov 6, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The text amendments were continued to the November 18 business meeting, where they were adopted.
    Continued to November 18
  20. Oct 15, 2025 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    Appeal seeking a reduced value based on comparable sales and drainage issues on the property.
    Value reduced from $295,800 to $240,400, unanimous
  21. Oct 1, 2025 Orange County · Planning Board
    Planning-director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering impervious surfaces, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers, largely to align with the state's 2024 Regulatory Reform Act and to adjust reservoir setbacks around Lake Orange.
    Recommended for approval to the Board of Commissioners, unanimous
  22. Sep 30, 2025 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    Thomas O. Mills, Trustee, sought a reduction from $627,300 to $500,000, arguing the lot is encumbered by a floodplain.
    Continued to a later meeting
  23. Sep 23, 2025 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    Niu sought a reduction citing the property's location in a flood plain and recent basement flooding.
    Board reduced the value from $589,700 to $491,600, unanimous.

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