HomeMy Public PortalAbout3.2.1999 Planning Board Agenda & MinutesAGENDA
PLANNING BOARD
Tuesday, March 2, 1999
6:30 p.m. Town Barn
ITEM #1: Consideration of additions to the agenda.
ITEM #2: Comments from the Chair:
• Committee Reports
• other updates
ITEM #3: Approval of minutes from February 2 meeting.
ITEM #4: Consideration of request from Churchill and Banks to allow a sidewalk on only one side
of John Earl Street in Granville Centre (please visit the site before the meeting).
ITEM #5: Consideration of potential text amendments:
a) permitted use table
C) event signs
ITEM #6: Clarification regarding private roads.
ITEM #7: Adjourn.
Please call the Planning Department if you cannot attend.
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To: Planning Board members
From: Margaret
Date: 2/26/99
RE: Updates
Attached is a map & spreadsheet providing a "sneak peek" at what the pending PUD might
generally look like.
2. It appears Elizabeth Brady Road has survived and will go into the planning and design phases
in 2002. This will be official in July when the draft state TIP is adopted. There will be a
public hearing on April 13 in the Mebane Community Center from 4-8 PM, if anyone is
interested in attending.
3. The Orange County Board of Commissioners decided to not appoint Juanita Diggs, who was
recommended by you and the Town Board for an out-of-town vacancy. They instead
appointed Jim Boericke, who lives in town on Margaret Lane. He was unable to attend the
March meeting, but looks forward to attending in April.
4. For those whose terms expire in March, I have submitted your names for re -appointment. If
you do not wish to be re -appointed, please let me know.
MINUTES
PLANNING BOARD
March 2, 1999
PRESENT: Richard Bradford, Cathy Carroll, David Daniel, Ed Gill, Jack Hughes, Louise Long, Pip Merrick,
Chris Quinn
PUBLIC: Pat Mallett, Margaret Hauth
Gill called the meeting to order at 6:35 PM.
ITEM #3: Bradford moved to approve the minutes as written. Merrick seconded.
VOTE: Unanimous.
ITEM #4: Hauth intorduced the request from Churchill and Banks to be excused of the requirement for
sidewalks on both sides of John Earl Street. She noted that Mallett, a engineer working on the
project is representing the applicant in this matter. Bradford asked whether the Planning Board
had the authority to waive a requirement. Gill read the variance procedure from the Subdivision
Regulations, which indicated an applicant could request a variance to avoid an ordinance
requirement. The members agreed this was not a variance request because they are not seeking
to vary an ordinance requirement, nor has it been presented to meet the necessary findings. The
members discussed it and decided that any decision needs to be forwarded to the Town Board
for final approval. Mallett provided a brief history of the parcel, its development, and the factors
his client indicated qualified them for this exception. The members discussed the proposed option
for a crosswalk to acccess the two lots on the south side of John Earl Street. They agreed that
it was a good location for a crosswalk, b ut the provision of the crosswalk was not desirable
enough to remove the preference for a full sidewalk.
MOTION: Hughes moved to recommend the Town Board turn down the request from Churchill and Banks
to be relieved of the need to construct a sidewalk on both sides of John Earl Street. Daniel
seconded.
VOTE: Unanimous.
ITEM #5a: Hauth introduced her request to send five amendments to the permitted use table to public
hearing. She noted that the uses being deleted and added should have been part of the
commercial re -write in 1994, but they were missed.
MOTION: Gill moved to send these amendments to public hearing. Hughes seconded.
VOTE: Unanimous.
ITEM #5b: Hauth introduced her request to send an amendment to allow and regulate temporary event signs
to public hearing. She noted that this type of sign has been gaining popularity and an outright ban
will be time consuming to enforce and unpopular. Quinn suggested that the removal time frame
be reduced to 48 hours and the members agreed.
MOTION: Merrick moved to send these amendments to public hearing. Hughes seconded.
VOTE: Unanimous.
ITEM #6: Hauth asked the members to confirm that any subdivision requesting a private road was intended
to have a full review rather than staff approval. The members agreed by consensus that it was
their intention to require full review of private road subdivisions.
Gill adjourned the meeting at 7:45 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Margaret A. Hauth, Secretary