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HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA
AGENDA
PLANNING BOARD
Thursday, December 6, 1990
6:30 PM
Town Barn
101 E. Orange Street
P.O. Box 429
(919) 732-2104
ITEM #1: p Approval of the minutes of the October 23,1990 Public
Hearing and the November 1, 1990 meeting.
ITEM #2: ,,Consideration of additions to the agenda.novic_
ITEM #3: /Comments from the Chair.
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ITEM #4: o Request by the Town Board for a review of the Jerry
cLa Stone exempt -plat -approval -denied situation. (attachments)
(4.21.E. 7 & 8)
ITEM #5: O Consideration and possible vote to bring a Subdivision
-1Czn_Q Regulation Text Amendment to Public Hearing on January
22, 1991 regarding the one year time period for the
submittal of a Final Plat on major subdivisions. (attachments)
ITEM #6: ;/ Update on Town Board decisions on the October 23rd!Public
Hearing items.
ITEM #7: /For information: Meadowlands Minor Subdivision of 4 lots
and two new roads - Meadowland Dr. and Corporate Dr.
(attachments) (4.40.A.11)
ITEM #8: ,/Courtesy Review of the proposed Orange County Government
Services Building onMargaretLn. and Cameron St. and a
first discussion on parking issues.
Please contact Janet or Joff at 732-2104 if you cannot
attend this meeting.
MINUTES
PLANNING BOARD
DECEMBER 6, 1990
.2EMBERS Bill Crowther (Chair), Sam Jones (Vice -Chair), Wayne Tilley,
PRESENT: Richard Simpson, Ken Chavious
MEMBERS Cheshire Cole, Ida Louise Evans, Margaret Moore, Stephen Jones,
ABSENT: Leif Deetjen, Wendy Olson (alt.), Jim Culbreth (alt.)
OTHERS Jerry Stone, Wesley Hyatt, Bob Hagemann, Ken Redfoot, Glenn
PRESENT: Corley, Joseph Gatewood, Norma White, Janet Rigsbee, Joff Coe
Crowther called the meeting to order at 6:45 PM. He announced
no quorum was present and information items would be presented
first, noting that if a quorum was later available, those items
requiring a vote would be heard.
ITEM #1: Crowther continued this item until later in the meeting.
ITEM #2: There were no additions to the agenda.
ITEM #3: Crowther said he had comments on three issues. First, he said he
was a little upset the Town Board did not take full action on the
Board's recommendations for the Thoroughfare Plan. He said they
took Davis Road off the Plan but did not review the entire Plan as
requested. He said it was upsetting when the Planning Board threw
up a red flag and the Town Board did not look at the request.
Second, Crowther said the Vision 2010 Comprehensive Plan Committee
was moving ahead and reqkuested an update be given at the next
meeting.
Third, Crowther said the Parks and Recreation Task Force should be
reactivated, especially in light of the possible public
acquisition of the William France property off Elizabeth Brady
Road.
ITEM #4: Crowther continued this item until later in the meeting.
ITEM #5: Crowther continued this item until later in the meeting.
ITEM #6: Rigsbee reviewed the recent Town Board decisions on items
recommended by the Planning Board. She said Davis Road had been
removed from the Thoroughfare Plan. The rezoning of the William
France property, allowing eaves in the setback, and the new
planting details were all approved by the Town Board.
ITEM #7: Rigsbee reviewed for the Board's information the Meadowlands Minor
Subdivision of 4 lots and 2 new roads. Crowther asked if a
discussion of Item #5 would help this item and Rigsbee said
possibly. She said the consideration was that the one year time
period was too short for many subdivision applicants to complete
or begin their projects. She noted Town Attorney, Mike Brough,
had told her two years would be more appropriate.
ITEM #8: Rigsbee began the courtesy review of the proposed Orange County
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Government Services Building at the corner of Margaret Lane and
Cameron Street by reporting on the Historic District Commission
meeting of December 5, 1990. She said the Commission had reviewed
the plans for the building with respect to its appearance. She
noted the Planning Board would want to consider whether or not the
building meets the town's requirements, especially for parking.
Rigsbee pointed out the Ordinance requires 187 spaces and only 83
had been provided, leaving a deficit of 104 spaces.
Redfoot and Corley, architects for the project, made a
presentation showing the two-story, 28,000 square foot building
with two roof options, including elevations and floor plans.
Redfoot said due to the slope of the lot they were able to have
ground level entrances from both sides. He showed the
preliminary landscape concept and the pedestrian walkways. He
pointed out the existing parking lot had been restriped and 104
parking spaces were now provided, including the on -street spaces.
Redfoot said the building had been sited to preserve the maple
trees along Cameron Street and to avoid the floodplain along
the creek. He said the building would be red brick with a
standing seam metal roof and would have a skylight over the lobby.
Redfoot said the color of the roof had not been decided yet and
emphasized his firm had only completed about 15% of its work at
this stage.
Chavious said with Orange County Personnel and Land Records
Departments moving, more traffic would be generated. He said
the Sheriff's Department lot might be getting 14 extra spaces but
they would probably need more parking in the future also.
Redfoot said the plans were the result of many meetings and the
Downtown Parking Committee study had been considered. He said
they felt they could phase in parking as it was required by first
improving the existing gravel lot and then by building a parking
deck later. He said they would like to see the project finished
by the spring of 1992.
Crowther said the Board would like to have a report from the
Downtown Parking Committee. Rigsbee noted the proposed parking
deck was also short of spaces and said a text amendment might be
necessary to allow for phasing. Corley said they were very
limited on the site by the floodway and the desire to preserve the
maple trees in front, leaving little flexibility for the siting
of a 28,000 square foot building.
Crowther asked Redfoot and Corley if they would like to propose
possible solutions at the next meeting or would they rather have
the Planning Board have a work session to look for alternatives.
Redfoot said they would like to have the Board's input but could
also make a proposal for the next meeting. He said he felt by
working together something more beneficial would develop for
Hillsborough. Corley said they would like to be able to let the
building out for bids in the spring.
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Crowther noted the matter would have to decided at the January
meeting in order be on the January Public Hearing agenda. Crowther
recognized Hagemann and asked the members if they thought an
attorney was needed to discuss the parking issue and there was a
concensus they did not. Crowther noted Hagemann was at the
meeting to discuss the Jerry Stone situation (Item #4) but that a
quorum was not present.
By concensus, Items #1, #4 and #5 were tabled until the next
meeting. Having no further business, Hagemann leaves the meeting.
Simpson said if parking was required, it should be installed and
suggested the parking deck should be built first. He said
everybody was breaking the rules if they were bigshots while the
little guy was getting strapped with all the regulations.
Chavious agreed, saying there was a constant double standard being
applied and the situation was ludicrous. Crowther said the issue
was like the cart before the horse.
Tilley questioned whether or not the building was even needed, and
if so why did it have to be crammed into a space where it didn't
fit. He said considering the Board's lack of knowledge about the
project, what does the general public know.
Rigsbee said the building appearedto be the largest building in
Downtown Hillsborough. Simpson said in spite of the drawing he
thought part of the building was in the floodway because he had
seen the creek at very high levels in the past. Tilley agreed
saying the power company had to cut power to the area in the past
because of heavy rains shorting out the transformers. Chavious
said the flood plain was a big concern and the Board shouldn't
allow public money to be spent on the project if it was going to
flood.
There being no further discussion, Crowther adjourned the meeting
at 7:34 PM.
Joff Coe, Secretary