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AGENDA
JOINT PUBLIC HEARING
HILLSBOROUGH TOWN BOARD and PLANNING BOARD
Tuesday, January 26, 1999
7:00 PM, Town Barn
ITEM #1: Call joint public hearing to order and comments from Mayor and Chair.
ITEM #2: Request by John Dee and Brandy Wagner to apply the Plus Overlay zone to 13.84
acres on Rosewood Cemetery Road. The property is currently zoned AR and R-
10; the overlay zone will allow the installation of singlewide mobile homes on
individual lots. TM 4.26.A.1.
ITEM #3: Request by Classical American Homes Preservation Trust to rezone 164.78 acres
from General Industrial and Office Institutional to Agricultural Residential. This
property is on Elizabeth Brady Road and also fronts on the Eno River. TM
4.37.C.11.
ITEM #4: Amend Section 2.14 to modify the requirements and process for reviewing and
approving Planned Unit Developments.
ITEM #5: Close public hearing and adjourn Planning Board.
ITEM #6: Town Board work session to discuss funding issues related to the construction of
a MURF.
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MINUTES
JOINT PUBLIC HEARING
January 26, 1999
PRESENT: Mayor Horace Johnson, Ken Chavious, Frances Dancy, Evelyn Lloyd, Catherine Martin, Richard
Simpson, John Taylor (PB chair), Richard Bradford, Joel Brinkley, Cathy Carroll, David Daniel, Ed
Gill, Jack Hughes, Louise Long, Pip Merrick, Chris Quinn
PUBLIC: John Dee & Brandy Wagner, Mike Gay, Bill Crowther, Myron Martin, Jack Knight, Patrick O'Neal,
Juanita Diggs, Eric Peterson, Margaret Hauth
ITEM #1: Mayor Johnson called the hearing to order and passed the gavel to Planning Board chair Taylor.
Taylor noted the items on the agenda and described how the hearing would proceed.
ITEM #2: Hauth introduced the request from Wagner to have the Plus Overlay district applied to his property
on Rosewood Road. She noted that the property is zoned Agricultural Residential, Protected
Watershed, and Residential -10. Adding the overlay would apply to all parts of the property and
simply allow the placement of single wide mobile homes on individual lots. She added that the area
meets the ordinance requirements for the plus overlay. Hauth said that the watershed zoning is based
on a large scale map following rough topography lines which indicate a portion of this property drains
into the Eno River above the dam at Lake Ben Johnston. She added that if a topography survey
showed that the elevations were different, the watershed designation would be removed. Wagner
spoke on behalf of his request. He noted that there are currently two single wide mobile homes and
one one -bedroom house on the property. It is his intent to add one more single wide to live in until
he builds a house for himself on the property.
ITEM #3: Hauth introduced the request from Classical American Homes Preservation Trust to rezone the
property it has acquired along the Eno River be down -zoned from General Industrial and Office
Institutional to Agricultural Residential to match the restrictive covenants placed on the property.
Crowther presented a map and detailed the history of how the Trust came to own the property. He
noted that the conservation easement was added by and is held by Preservation North Carolina, the
organization who purchased the property from the France family. Crowther noted that the easements
require the property be kept in its natural state. Hughes asked what the intent of the request is.
Crowther said the request simply lets the Town's map adequately reflect the current circumstance
rather than indicating property is available for development which is not. Simpson noted that the
easements and the request seem counter to the Brady Road bypass which the town adopted.
Bradford asked Crowther whether some sort of development will be needed to access a significant
portion of the property, since public access is also part of the easement requirements. Crowther said
that the plan to meet that requirement is through a trail system that makes this tract part of a regional
greenway/trail system connecting the mountain and Eno River State Park. He added that the planning
of that trail and the larger tract is the next step. An inventory has been completed, a copy of which
was given to the town. Gay asked if public access is intended, is the property open now. Crowther
said it is controlled access right now, folks should call him as the manager before accessing the
property. Gay noted his support for the proposal. O'Neal asked if the zoning or covenants impede
the development of Brady extension. Crowther said that the DOT will have to negotiate with both
the Trust and Preservation North Carolina when purchasing right-of-way. Hauth noted that the
zoning would not impact the proposal, but the covenants may or may not, depending on the desire
of the state to construct the road. Crowther said he is not aware of a location with covenants that
has been successfully crossed by DOT. Wagner asked if the construction of Brady Road wouldn't
improve the public access to the property. Chavious noted that he tended to agree with Wagner, but
that answer would not come as part of this hearing.
Joint Public Hearing
1/26/99, page 2
ITEM #4: Hauth introduced the proposed text amendments to modify the current requirements for Planned Unit
Developments. She noted that the current ordinance was adopted with University Station in mind
and requires a predominately single family residential plan with very limited commercial uses. She
also noted that it requires a significant open space set aside, but a very broad definition of open space.
Hauch noted that this text requires a single family component, but strives for mixed use overall. She
added that all non-residential portions must meet the EDD manual, whether located in an EDD or
not. Hauth said the minimum development size is 35 acres, where the current requirement is 20
acres.
ITEM #5: Taylor closed the public hearing and returned the gavel to Mayor Johnson. He adjourned the hearing
and called a brief recess before convening a special Town Board work session
Respectfully submitted,
Margaret A. Hauth, Secretary