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Attorney Watts <br /> advised that in a Charter you either authorize or limit Legislation <br />but you do not actually enact it in the Charter; it is left to the legislative process, and would take a <br />referendum to undo. <br /> <br />Attorney Collins agreed that maximum height should not be in the Charter but once <br />there are ordinances establishing maximum heights, any increase would require a referendum. <br /> <br />Attorney Dill <br />thought this was a slippery slope and requested that the Board <br />exclude industrial and commercial structures from this provision. <br /> <br />Attorney Watts’ <br /> advice was to continue Section 1.8.2 as a permissive section, but <br />once they enact it, they could provide that any ordinance increase in height requires referendum in <br />a non-industrial zone. His usual advice to counties contemplating Charter is not to use the Charter <br />as a place to do legislation because facts and legislative changes happen. <br /> <br />(Clerk’s Note: Commissioner Davis exited the meeting at 4:47 p.m.) <br /> <br /> <br />Article 2 <br /> – Legislative Branch <br /> <br />ON MOTION by Commissioner O’Bryan, SECONDED by <br />Chairman Wheeler, the Board by a 4-0 vote (Commissioner <br />Davis absent) approved the inclusion of all of Article 2, as <br />amended, in the Draft Charter document. <br /> <br />Article 3 <br />– Administrative Branch <br /> <br />ON MOTION by Commissioner O’Bryan, SECONDED by <br />Chairman Wheeler, the Board by a 4-0 (Commissioner <br />May 1, 2007 39 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />