Water and sewer items in Orange County
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| Water and sewer | 41 |
| Environment and sustainability | 13 |
| Tax rate and revaluation | 11 |
| Health and human services | 9 |
| Land conversion and large development | 6 |
| Stormwater and flooding | 6 |
| Comprehensive plan | 5 |
| Parks and recreation | 4 |
| Rezoning | 4 |
| Subdivision and site plans | 4 |
| Housing and affordability | 3 |
| Schools and education | 3 |
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Stephen Winters and Mary Tiger of OWASA present on what PFAS contamination means for the utility's operations, and ask the commission to weigh in on their draft guiding principles and on how to gather community input.
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OWASA led a discussion on drought conditions and water conservation measures.
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Updates on the Faucets to Floods forum and Climate Challenge, a July clothing swap, promotion of the Community Climate Action Grants, the Trails Plan, and a water, rest and shade flyer.
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A one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers as a land use, covering artificial intelligence data centers, cryptocurrency mining facilities, data centers, data processing facilities and similar uses. The board directed the study on March 5, received it March 17, and voted then to advertise this hearing and to hav…Adopted unanimously
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Appointment discussions for the Advisory Board on Aging, the Animal Services Advisory Board, the Board of Health, the Human Relations Commission, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board of directors, and the Parks and Recreation Council.
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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
- Pin 9851-43-3215 · Jl-Hm Development LLC
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VIII.B Well Rules UpdateAn update to the county's well rules, which govern private drinking water wells.
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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…
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Presentations and a roundtable on housing markets and pricing, requested by the board as background for the Land Use Plan 2050 process. Yonah Freemark presented on housing economics and Todd Taylor of OWASA on utility service. The session was one of several half-day retreats covering Part B of the board's information…
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A high-level overview of where water and sewer capacity exists and where it constrains what can be built.
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A staff presentation on the potential impacts of large-scale data center development in Orange County, ordered by the board on March 5. The board voted unanimously to advertise a public hearing on declaring a one-year moratorium covering artificial intelligence data centers, cryptocurrency mining facilities, data cent…Hearing advertised and staff directed to draft amendments, both unanimous. The moratorium was adopted April 21.
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Staff answered the board's December request for the material the county commissioners received at two November retreats: community septic, wastewater treatment and groundwater resources, and conservation subdivisions. Consultant notes from both retreats were included for members who could not attend. Staff described t…
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The utility's annual report to the commissioners. OWASA has decoupled the Clearwell project from the PFAS treatment facility, proceeding with the first and deferring the second on the grounds that staff are meeting proposed limits, the regulations are deferred, the site is constrained, and PFAS needs handling more bro…
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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
- Pin 9851-43-3215 · Jl-Hm Development LLC
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A member flagged a January 28 public forum at the Whitted Human Services Center on rising health care costs following the One Big Beautiful Bill. The chair reported meeting the county environment commission's water resources committee, which is inventorying wells and testing water quality. The board also faces two sea…
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IX.A Media ItemsThe media packet covered local families avoiding food bank services out of fear of immigration enforcement, federal funding for Hillsborough water treatment, a pediatric flu death in western North Carolina, a Medicaid change letting foster children stay enrolled across county moves, a measles exposure at RDU airport i…
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Air and energy resources has drafts for most topics and meets January 26 to move toward a final draft. Water resources discussed data collection, combining documents, and whether Wake County's groundwater study could be replicated in Orange County. Land resources worked on indicator species, planned a meeting with cou…
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Jeff Erick Essen appealed the $31,800 assessment on this 1.50-acre non-perking lot off Shadylawn Road Extension, arguing the land is unbuildable, at the end of a dirt road, with no sewer access. The county had already applied an -85% non-perking adjustment. The board accepted the county's value with no change.Four reduced, two unchanged
- Pin 9789890111 · Essen Jeff Erick
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III Consent AgendaJeff Erick Essen appealed the $66,300 assessment on this 1.50-acre non-perking lot off Shadylawn Road Extension, arguing it is unusable raw land with no sewer access. The county had applied a -75% non-perking adjustment, which the appellant disputed as too small. The board reduced the value to $39,800.
- Pin 9789797037 · Essen Jeff Erick
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The board's 2025 record and 2026 plan, due to the clerk by January 16 and presented to the county commissioners in February or March. Work in 2025 included five conditional district rezoning reviews, three text amendment recommendations, one major subdivision preliminary plat, and briefings on the land use plan and ha…Approved unanimously as amended
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A presentation on conservation subdivision design by planner Randall Arendt, addressing where such subdivisions are appropriate in the county, where they would be most useful, and how to write them. Key advice: preserve half the buildable land rather than half of everything including buffers; keep primary conservation…
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III Board CommentsMembers raised school cell phone bans, Australia's social media ban for under-sixteens, and ICE activity in the region. The health director reported a notable increase in appointment cancellations since ICE became active, with telehealth, home visits and remote work offered to protect patients and staff, and county ci…
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The behavioural health committee heard about the county's planned crisis and diversion facility, combining a behavioural health urgent care for acute crisis with a facility-based crisis centre offering up to two weeks of care, developed with multiple mental health and community partners. Members framed it as a way to…Staff or committee report Health and human servicesPolice and public safetyPublic facilitiesWater and sewer
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Dental Health received 68 responses against roughly 5,000 annual appointments, with 95 percent or more satisfied, after a year of equipment failures including a chiller, a suction pump and an X-ray machine that caught fire. Environmental Health received 118 responses, more than 90 percent good or excellent, but about…
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A conditional rezoning of about 78.11 acres for a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision of single-family houses, filed by Forestar Group. The planning board had reviewed it on September 3 and October 1. Commissioners objected that 49 houses on 20,000-square-foot lots without water and sewer is urban-style density in…Denied 6-1 as not in the public interestPublic hearing Housing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentParks and recreationRezoningSubdivision and site plansWater and sewer
- Pin 9865-87-8090 · Powell Amy L Et Al
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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
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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…
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A professional geologist presented on wells and groundwater. Community wells draw from confined aquifers, better protected from surface contamination than shallow wells, and are tested for far more constituents than private wells — including PFAS, radiologicals and organic and inorganic chemicals — where Orange County…
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Owner sought a reduction based on the lots having no water or sewer service and unsuitable soil.Value changed to $43,200
- Pin 9864262053 · Wagner Lisa C
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Owner sought a reduction based on the lots having no water or sewer service and unsuitable soil.Board accepted the county's proposed value of $81,000
- Pin 9864159609 · Wagner Lisa C
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Owner sought a reduction based on the lots having no water or sewer service and unsuitable soil.Value changed to $4,500, a 90% reduction for an unusable parcel
- Pin 9864158585 · Wagner Lisa C
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Owner sought a reduction based on the lots having no water or sewer service and unsuitable soil.Board accepted the appellant's proposed value of $5,000
- Pin 9864250599 · Wagner Lisa C
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Owner sought a reduction based on the lots having no water or sewer service and unsuitable soil.Value changed to $2,700 as an unusable lot
- Pin 9864251559 · Wagner Lisa C
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Owner sought a reduction based on the lots having no water or sewer service and unsuitable soil.Value changed to $9,000, a 90% reduction
- Pin 9864252856 · Wagner Lisa C
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Owner sought a reduction based on the lack of public water and sewer access.Board accepted the county's proposed value of $326,500
- Pin 9779314745 · Horton Randy Thomas
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Owner sought a reduction based on the lack of public water and sewer access.Board accepted the county's proposed value of $470,600
- Pin 9779327032 · Horton Randy T
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Staff completed a presentation on the Central Orange Coordinated Area and the regional water and sewer boundary agreement, and Hillsborough staff addressed why the town wants to constrict its water and sewer service boundary.Board voted unanimously to have county staff, rather than an outside consultant, facilitate its November 21 retreat
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8 UDO Text Amendment - Impervious Surfaces, Watershed Protection Overlay Districts, and Stream BuffersPlanning-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
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Owner cited the tract's landlocked status and lack of public water or sewer access.Value changed to $12,419, unanimousOther Water and sewer
- Pin 9834888220 · Cedars Ltd Ptns
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Owner cited the tract's landlocked status and lack of public water or sewer access.Value changed to $142,350, unanimousOther Water and sewer
- Pin 9834789169 · Cedars Ltd Ptns
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Owner cited the tract's landlocked status and lack of public water or sewer access.Value changed to $211,762, unanimousOther Water and sewer
- Pin 9834581778 · Cedars Limited Partnership
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