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Agriculture Advisory Board Public Hearing

Chatham County · Agriculture Advisory Board
Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 6:30 pm · Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro, North Carolina 27312

Public hearing Farmland and open spaceEnvironment and sustainability

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What's on this agenda

Chatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board held a public hearing on 18 August on what the proposed Enbridge pipeline would do to farmland, and set aside two and a half hours for it. Comment was limited to three minutes a speaker, once each, and strictly to agricultural impacts. Residents could sign up by email until noon that day or in person in the twenty minutes before the meeting, and the two lists were alternated.

The board took Enbridge itself and the voluntary agricultural district members as its other two items. Its draft report on the hearing came back to the board on 8 September, and reached the county commissioners on 21 September, the night they voted on a resolution opposing the pipeline.

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Agenda items (6)

Procedural · 3Presentation · 1Discussion item · 1Public hearing · 1
  1. I Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. II Roll Call
    Procedural
  3. III Enbridge
    Presentation Environment and sustainabilityFarmland and open space
    Enbridge, on the proposed pipeline.
  4. IV Voluntary Agricultural District Members
    Discussion item Farmland and open space
    Members of the county's voluntary agricultural districts, whose farms lie along the route.
  5. V Public Comment
    Public hearing Environment and sustainabilityFarmland and open space
    Comment on the agricultural impacts of the pipeline, three minutes a speaker, one turn each, until 9 pm.
  6. VI Adjournment
    Procedural

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