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HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA
M CANCELLATION NOTICE
PLANNING BOARD
The July 5th meeting of the Hillsborough
Planning Board has been cancelled due to
lack of business.
Please mark your calendars with the Joint
Public Hearing date of Tuesday, July 24th
at 7:OOPM.
Happy 4th of July,
J net Rigsbee
Planning Director
June 29, 1990
101 E. Orange Street
P.O. Box 429
(919) 732-2104
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JOINT PUBLIC HEARING
July 24, 1990
Tuesday
7:00 PM
Town Barn
ITEM #1: Rezoning Request of DCA General Inc., Jim Anthony, to
rezone approx. 2.6 acres of Cornerstone Park located
on the west side of Hwy 86 from GC (General Commercial)
to GI (General Industrial). 4.40.A.8 (attachments)
ITEM #2: Text Amendment requested by the Planning Board to delete
section 5.6 "Minimum Setbacks for Churches". (attachment)
ITEM #3: Vision 2010 Comprehensive Plan - existing land use element
and other comments.
Agatha Johnson will call the -Town Board members and
Janet Rigsbee'will call the Planning Board members
to ensure there is a quorum.
MINUTES
JOINT PUBLIC HEARING
July 24, 1990
TOWN BOARD
Mayor Horace Johnson, Bob Rose, Remus Smith, Carol Lorenz,
`.ESENT:
Allen Lloyd, Bobby Riley
PLANNING BD.
Bill Crowther (Chair), Samuel Jones, Wendy Olson, Richard
PRESENT:
Simpson, Margaret Moore, Ida Louise Evans, Kenneth Chavious,
Leif Deetjen
PLANNING BD.
Wayne Tilley, Stephen Jones, Cheshire Cole, Jim Culbreth (alt.)
ABSENT:
OTHERS:
Al Mustian, Rev. Clyde Pristell, Emery Pristell, Steve Rice,
011ie DeVue, Cheryl Warren, Blake Dickinson, Evelyn Poole -Kober,
Janet Rigsbee
Mayor Johnson opened the Public Hearing and turned the gavel
over to Chair Bill Crowther.
ITEM #1:
The rezoning request of DCA General Inc. to rezone approximately
2.6 acres of Cornerstone Park located on the west side of Hwy 86
from GC to GI was presented by Rigsbee who reviewed the items
presented in the agenda. She showed the affected property on
a display board and said the configuration of the area to be
rezoned should perhaps show a 200' width at the front setback
line because that is the minimum lot width in the GI zone.
She said the lot was not yet subdivided but it is proposed to
subdivide this lot out of the whole tract in the near future.
DeVue asked if this lot would remain GI if rezoned when the
new road was installed in -the future and Rigsbee said yes but
it is proposed that Area "B" would revert back to DCA General.
Steve Rice, engineer for the project, said Southern States
decided to apply for the rezoning because a recent, past
decision to continue with 100' setbacks for petroleum storage
tanks led Southern States to the goal of adding more tanks to
the lot. As petroleum storage tanks are non -conforming use in
GC a rezoning is necessary. He requested that only area "A"
be rezoned to GI because that is the only area in which there
will be any development. Area "B" is to meet the lot width and
public road frontage requirements only and lot "B" will revert
to DCA General once the public road is in place which will
serve the major subdivision.
Rigsbee asked what access will the Southern States trucks use
and Rice said they will continue to use the existing driveway
which is not on their property until the new, public road is
built. They intend to go through the major subdivision in the
near future after traffic projections are finalized. The road
would not be built until the lots are subdivided and sold.
Rose said then the road in area "B" would not be built and
Rice said that is correct.
The Mayor said with the increased lot frontage it appears they
will be meeting the letter of the law. Rice said that is true
and they are not looking for variances or changes to the ordinance
and would do what is needed to meet the law.
Chavious asked if that was a private road and Rice said no it's
a private driveway owned by DCA General.
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ITEM #2: The text amendment proposed by the Planning Board at the request
of Rev. Clyde Pristell to delete section 5:6 of the zoning
ordinance, "Minimum Setbacks for Churches" was presented by
Rigsbee. She said the current setbacks for churches in
residential district are: 45', front and 50' sides and rear.
She said when she spoke to Michael Brough that he thought it
was not wise to have greater restrictions for churches than
residences and she felt that was why the -Planning Board sponsored
this amendment.
Remus Smith asked where the location of Rev. Pristell's church
is and Rigsbee said on Brownsville St. but it must be clear that
by deleting this section it will affect all churches in town.
Rev. Pristell he hoped the board would change this section of
the ordinance because he would like his church to be allowed in
the building he has found., He said he works with the youth and
he is looking forward to helping Hillsborough.
Evelyn Poole -Kober asked what the amendment would do and Rigsbee
said it would delete Section 5.6 and would make the setbacks for
churches the same as for residences.
Al Mustian said it had been difficult to find an allowed use
for this building and he is excited to see a church interested
in going in there. He said very few of the older churches could
meet the setbacks.as'they exist.
Ida Evans said she thinks it's great - we have juke joints and
churches are so much more desirable.
Remus Smith asked if the board could change the dimensions by
granting a variance and Rigsbee said it was very difficult to
get a variance because there are 5 findings of fact that must
be found in the affirmative.
Chavious.asked if this section is deleted is there a suggested
setback and Rigsbee said it -would be the same as for residences
in the zone..
ITEM #3: The Existing land use element for the Vision 2010 Comprehensive
Plan was presented by Rigsbee who presented a map made by our
consultant; Susan Suggs which showed existing land use. Rigsbee
showed an overlay which will show Suggs corrections which should
be made on the map. Rigsbee also showed an overlay which showed
vacant commerical land = 343 acres, industrial land = 145 acres
and office = 42 acres. She said this was an estimate and it did
not take into account floodplain land.
Bob Rose who is the Chair of the Vision 2010 said they need as
much public input as possible and a plan can only be as good as
the input that is gathered. He said members of the committee
are willing to accept written, verbal, and telephone input.
Rose said the public input sessions will be held on Sept. 11, 18,
and 25 and the board memebers should encourage as many people as
possible to attend.
The Public Hearing adjourned at 7:35pm.
Janet V. Rigsbee, Secretary