3.8.1 Establishment, membership, and procedures.
A. Establishment. The Planning Board may establish and appoint a Technical Review Committee (TRC) to provide a coordinated and centralized technical review process. The members of the Technical Review Committee shall be composed of persons from town departments/agencies or functions which have an interest in the development review process and other persons who can provide expertise to the development review process. The UDO Administrator will convene the relevant partners and agencies as necessary to ensure consideration of critical parameters. In the event partners, agencies, or functional representatives cannot attend, comments and questions may be accepted.
B. Membership.
1. The TRC may include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following governmental agencies and officials:
Technical Review Committee
UDO Administrator
Town Administrator
Building Inspector
Fire Department
Planning Board Member (assigned on a quarterly basis by the Planning Board)
Consulting Engineer (as designated by the Town Administrator)
Other town representatives appointed by the Town Administrator
Others
Town Attorney
Utilities Providers
Brunswick County Health Department
Brunswick County Board of Education
Brunswick County Sheriff’s Department
Cape Fear Area Rural Planning Organization
NC Department of Transportation (NCDOT)
NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
NC Division of Water Quality
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
2. The Town Administrator may appoint other staff members to the TRC as necessary to carry out its duties and responsibilities.
3. The UDO Administrator shall serve as the Chair of the TRC to preside over its meetings, document the proceedings, and may request the participation of professional experts or a representative from an adjacent municipality, county, regional, or state agency if the UDO Administrator determines that such entities can provide expertise concerning the proposed development.
C. Procedures.
1. At the start of each operating year (January 1 through December 31), the Chair shall appoint a Secretary to take minutes of all Committee proceedings and file them with the Town Clerk.
2. The Technical Review Committee shall meet as often as necessary to fulfill its duties or upon call of the Chair of the Committee to discuss development applications. All comments from such reviews shall be made available to the applicant a minimum of seven working days prior to consideration by the subsequent review body. The meeting notes of each meeting shall be filed with the Town Clerk.
3.8.2. Powers and duties.
A. Review and recommendation. The Technical Review Committee may make a recommendation on the following development review procedures:
1. Major subdivision - Preliminary plat approval (Article 4.6.9);
2. Major subdivision - Final plat approval (Article 4.6.10);
3. Major and minor site plans (Article 4.7);
4. Zoning map amendment, Planned unit development review (Article 4.4);
5. Transportation impact analysis (Article 4.11);
6. Special use permit (Article 4.9) - Review only for technical specifications; and
7. Any other review requested by an approving authority.
(Ord. passed 2-3-2021)