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Home My Public Portal AboutJanuary 7th Agenda & MinutesAGENDA PLANNING BOARD Tuesday, January 7, 2003 6:30 PM, Town Barn ITEM #1: Consideration of additions to the agenda. ITEM 92: Committee Reports. ITEM #3: Approval of meeting minutes. ITEM #4: Consideration of preliminary subdivision request to create one lot off a new private road on Nash Street ITEM #5: Consideration of revised preliminary subdivision for Phase three of Old Mill Business Park ITEM #6: Discussion of text amendment to create provisions for adult day care facilities ITEM #7: Consideration of text amendment to create provisions for dwellings in the Central Commercial zone ITEM #8: Adjourn Please call the Planning Department if you cannot attend. 732-1270 extension 73 (this line is connected to voice mail) 101 East Orange Street • P.O. Box 429 • Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 .919-7.79.-1P70 • Fry -r 914-1744_9.a4n MINUTES PLANNING BOARD January 7, 2003 PRESENT: David Daniel (Chair), Jim Boericke, Matthew Farrelly, Kelly Hopper, Cannie Lloyd, Paul Newton PUBLIC: Ronald Baird, Mariah & William McPherson, George Horton, Gregg Pacchiana, Mark O'Neal, Kelly Barnhill, Tony Whitaker, Margaret Hauth Daniel called the meeting to order at 6:47 PM. ITEM #2: Hauth reported that the Board of Adjustment began their review of Patriot's Pointe, but did not have a quorum available and that the Parks and Recreation Board did not meet. Newton reported that the School Board voted to approve the Memorandum of Understanding for the SAPFO. He also said that the Wal -mart at Hampton Pointe had broken ground and expected to be open by Labor Day. ITEM #3: Newton moved to approve the minutes as written. Lloyd seconded. VOTE: Unanimous. ITEM #4: Hauth introduced the subdivision request from the McPherson to create a new private road off Nash Street to create one additional lot. She explained that the Board had two options for reviewing the application. They could look at the subdivision creating a new private road, or they could consider it a variance request to allow one additional lot off Grace Drive, the private road the McPhersons built a few years earlier off Daphine Drive. Hauth detailed some of the long-term problems with private roads of maintenance. M McPherson indicated their strong preference for the variance option, since the parcels are all meant for their children, and would provide a better connection among them. Newton read through the standards for the Planning Board to grant a variance. The members discussed each and agreed that the circumstances present were unusual in the size of the original lot with very limited road frontage, the lots were still in excess of the district minimums, the creation of another private road was not desirable, and that the expense of an additional road was unreasonable since the existing private road was available. The members agreed that a variance was reasonable in this case, provided that the plat indicated that further divisions of the lots would require additional review. MOTION: Newton moved to grant the variance to create one additional lot off Daphine Drive for the reasons indicated. Farrelly seconded. VOTE: Unanimous. ITEM 45: Hauth introduced the revised plan for Old Mill Phase 3. Whitaker described the changes to the plan from December, noting that the changes are due to the Town requirement for the development to be served with sewer and to be annexed. He said the previously shown loop road was eliminated to help address concerns from Beckett's Ridge about commercial traffic using their street and because it was harder PB 1/7/03 page 2 to serve the loop road with sewer due to the significant grading needed to make the connection. He said the revision left only two lots with access from Beckett's Ridge Drive extension, which will limit its use for commercial traffic. He noted the addition of residential lots east of Cates Creek. He said that development is necessary to recoup the financial expenses related to providing sewer throughout. Whitaker added that it provides the desired connection to the Waterston development to the south and rezoning it to Residential will keep commercial development away from Beckett's Ridge. Newton asked for the specifications of R- 10. Hauth said the lots would have a minimum of 10,000 square feet, which is the same zoning as Beckett's Ridge. Whitaker said the R-10 with cluster provisions adds some flexibility to the lot size to meet their needs. Newton said he simply wanted to express the concern he has heard among the Beckett's Ridge residents about the impact of the difference in lots size to the property values in Beckett's Ridge. O'Neal said that using the cluster provisions allows for the provision of high quality adjacent green space, which can work as an equalizing factor. Farrelly said there are a few lots (d,e,f) that do not benefit from the green space. He asked about the lots on the north side of Beckett's Ridge Drive and whether they could be larger. Whitaker said the topography impacted the size and shape of those lots as well. Hauth reminded the members that a decision on the residential lots is not needed at this meeting because the property is not yet in the Town's jurisdiction. She asked them to focus west of the creek and asked if a recommendation was possible. Boericke asked about providing a pedestrian connection from Leah Drive to Beckett's Ridge Drive. Whitaker said something might be possible within the sewer easement. Newton asked about a sidewalk on Leah Drive. Whitaker said they were not proposing one because sidewalks are not throughout the development. He added that a 4' wide walk is not truly adequate, so they were providing a 5' wide walk along one side of Beckett's Ridge Drive to continue the existing sidewalk there. He added that sidewalks in a development like Old Mill are somewhat uncommon. Lloyd said it is not uncommon to see sidewalks in commercial developments and they are common in other jurisdictions. Hopper noted that she has noticed that Millstone is well used by pedestrians and that it is unfortunate that sidewalks are not universal throughout that development. Newton noted that walks on both sides of Beckett's Ridge Drive is likely not reasonable due to grades and it being an existing road, but he felt strongly that the new requirement should be followed. Other members agreed. Barnhill asked the members to indicate any other issues they may have because the time schedule is beginning to slip away from him. MOTION: Lloyd moved to recommend approval of the subdivision west of Cates Creek as shown with the addition of a 4' wide sidewalk on both sides of Leah Drive. Hopper seconded. PB 1/7/03 page 3 VOTE: Unanimous. ITEM #6: Hauth introduced Baird who had contacted her about opening an adult daycare center. Hauth noted that the ordinance did not currently recognize that use. Baird introduced two of his residents at his current family care home. He noted that once these men retire from working, they would not be able to stay with him under his license as a family care home for the developmentally disabled. He said he looked into the requirements for some surrounding jurisdictions and was suggesting a text amendment. Members agreed that the issue needed research. They asked Baird if he was in a real hurry, or if he could wait for the board to do some additional work and address this in the spring. Baird agreed to wait and offered to help. ITEM #7: Hauth presented a draft text amendment to address the request for multi -family dwelling in Central Commercial. She said that she missed and important detail of the presentation at the last meeting -in that the applicant would not have ownership of the property containing the parking spaces, and hence would be able to include that in his density calculation. The members said they did not think an upper limit on density was necessary because so long as the proposal provided parking, downtown was the appropriate location for denser housing. The members asked for additional language requiring retail on the first floor. They discussed the parking ratio and whether so that too many spaces would not be required. Hauth said she would check and recommend alternate language for the hearing. MTOION: Boericke moved to send the text to public hearing. Lloyd seconded. VOTE: Unanimous. Daniel adjourned the meeting at 8:35 PM. Respectfully submitted, M garet A. Hauth, Secretary