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HomeMy Public PortalAbout11.10.1983 Planning Baord Agenda and MinutesMayor mam Id t11.0hvr4+V Town Clerk Lucius M. Cheshire Jr. Agatha Johnson Commissioners HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 Supt. Water Works Allen A. LloydC. E. Rosemond W. Paul Martin S B ° R o o Street Supt, Remus J. Smith r Rachel H. Stevens / 2 L. D. Wagoner Lynwood J. Brown0 j Chief of police Arnold W. Hamlett Ty, / October 27, 1983 To Planning Board and News of Orange From: Frank Sheffield Agenda for the Planning Board Meeting on Thursday, November 3, 1983 at 7:30 P.M. at the Town Hall: Item 1- Recommendation to Town Board regarding requests for rezoning from a- Drs. Singer and Mold for Tax Map 15, lots 12 and 14 from R-20 to General Commercial, b- Richard Robinson and Ray Motor Company for Tax Map 36, Block E, Lots 183, 21 and 22 from R-20 to Central Commercial, c- Ken Collins for Tax Map 27, Block D, Lot 1 from R-15 to General Commercial. Item 2- Recommendation regarding definition proposed to be added to Section 2 of the Hi is or inimum Housing Code to be as follows: 'Building Inspector x shall mean n (icer or such other -Town employee or person as designated by the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners. Item 3- Request for rezoning from John Roberts for Tax Map 40, Block A, Lot 4B.from A -R to General Commercial. This lot is on the east side of South Churton Street adjoining South Railroad on the north, General Commercial to the west and south and A -R to the east. John Roberts has a lot shaped like a triangle which is zoned General Commercial which this lot joins. The lot is 2 acres. Item 4- Recommendations to Orange County regarding the proposed Land Use Plan for the Harmon Young Area. Consideration of some joint planning with the County. Item 5- Review of the four corners of Churton and Corbin for recommendation to the Town Board. /J i f t � Hillsborough Planning Board Minutes of November 10, 1983 Meeting Members present: Frank Sheffield -Chairman, Myron Martin, Hilda Brody, Rick Cannity, Judy Cox, Tarleton Davis, John Dorward and Nancy Goodwin. Others present: Dr. Mold, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Ashley, Steve Yuhasz, and Kay Maltbie, Zoning Officer. Sheffield welcome Tarleton Davis to the Planning Board. Dr. Murphy couldn't be present. Wayne Oakley had sent in his resignation to the Chairman because he felt that he could not serve any longer due to health problems. Sheffield announced his resignation to be effective. December 1, 1983 when he would be sworn in as Mayor of the Town of Hillsborough. He suggested that Myron Martin -Vice Chairman become Acting Chairman until March 1984 when the term expires and that an Acting Vice Chairman should be elected at the next meeting and should serve until the term expires in March. The consensus of the.Planning Board was that they agreed with those suggestions. Martin noted that he hated to see Frank go for the loss to the Planning Board and that the Planning Board would support him as Mayor. Item 1- The Singer -Mold rezoning request was considered. Cox wondered if the Planning Board could ask Singer and Mold to sign a contract to Office Institutional use when the ordinance revisions as made. Sheffield suggested that they have a rezoning request on file to be acted on when the new ordinance is adopted. Goodwin said that the map could be changed at the time of the revisions. Cox said that she would like to have,a formal committment on their part of their intention for using it as a medical office. Concern was voiced at the Public Hearing about other General Commercial Uses. Martin questioned whether the owners could back out of the contract if the property was rezoned. Cannity said they could not and that the new zoning map would rezone it office -institutional. A contract for specific use is not valid in North Carolina. Mold said that if they did not get the rezoning, they would have to look out of Town. Goodwin moved that the request for rezoning by Singer -Mold from R-20 to General Commercial be recommended for approval to the Town Board. Brody seconded the request. Brody noted that Annie Daye (adjacent property owner) was in favor of a Medical Center there but not anything else commercial. Dorward said it would be a good buffer between the General Commercial and the residences on that block. The motion passed unanimously. Richard Robinson and Ray Motor Company's request for rezoning of their property behind the Office Center to Central Commercial was considered. 'N & K street was offered for dedication and is shown as 42 feet wide. The records of the Town Board could be checked to see if the road was ever formally accepted. If the town assumes maintenance of a road it would be considered accepted. The road is dirt. About ten years ago, some gravel was put down on the road. Adjacent property would be FCX to the west, then the Historical Society Law Office and then Boerickes. The Institute of Government recommended that a request for Central Commercial could be turned down on the basis of the unpaved access. Brody noted that the neighboring property owners strongly opposed it. Sheffield said that a letter opposing it had recently been received from James and Sally Boericke. The letter was read. Yuhasz said that the property does not abut any residential property. The FCX property that it abuts is zoned residential, but Page�Two, Planning Board Meeting November 10, 1983 its use is nonconforming. Yuhasz said that the property was surrounded by commercial uses on other sides and that the FCX would be a. buffer zone. He.noted'that no one would want to use the land for residential purposes and that Burrel had said that he did not want nay further commercial .to the west. Dorward asked if the actual Flood Plain had been determined. Yuhasz said that the property was above the 500 year flood plain at 512 feet. He said that the lowest point at the southwest corner was at about the 500 year flood plain. Sheffield said that the people at the Public Hearing said that they had seen water on the road. Yuhasz said that the road does drop lower; it goes back about 220 feet from Churton. Cox noted that she had seen water standing in that direction from Churton St. in passing. A general discussion took place regarding the Town's future maintenance of the road. Concern about the access and the traffic going out onto Churton St. in a northerly direction was expressed. The general feeling of the Planning Board was that the Town should not have to pave the street. Yuhasz said that an office road need not be paved. If pavement was required the Town could do it. Martin said that he had a problem with the Town accepting unpaved roads as a taxpayer. More discussion of whether the road had ever been accepted by the Town was held. Sheffield made a suggestion that that a recommendation could be made that the petition be turned down because of the lack of public road and the concerns of residential property owners nearby or that the property be rezoned General Commercial and dedication of the road stopped at the back property line and that the Town not be the one to pave it. Cox said that she felt it would be inappropriate for the Planning Board to rezone to commercial any property without access onto a paved public road. Brody said that she was opposed due to the neighbors' opposition. Goodwin said that Mt.. Witt had asked her to register his opposition because he was unable to come to the Public Hearing or the Planning Board Meeting. Cox moved that the Board recommend to the Town Board that they reject the rezoning request by Robinson and Ray Motor Co. because of the unpaved road, lack of Historic District Commission input, citizen input opposing the rezoning and traffic at Churton which would pose hazards if cars were coming out of commercial uses behind the Office Center. Brody seconded the motion. Cannity and Davis did not vote because they were unable to attend the Public Hearing. Cox, Brody, Goodwin, and Martin were in favor of the recommendation at the vote. No votes opposed the motion. Ken Collins request for General Commercial rezoning from residential was considered for the property at Brownsville and West Hill Avenue. Martin noted that it was clear at the Public Hearing that people in the neighborhood do not want the rezoning and that he did not think that it should be rezoned. Cox said that it would be spot zoning and that the Board had gone on record opposing spot zoning. Brody agreed. Ashley said that more traff ic.problems would be create if the place were turned into a beer joint. The building had been used as a store some years ago. Martin made a motion that the recommendation to the Town Board be that the request by Collins be denied. Cox seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Item 2- Recommendation to the Town Board was considered regarding the addition to the Minimum Housing Code. Cox made the motion that the wording be "Building Inspector shall mean a person trained in7 enforcement of a Minimum Housing Code, including Zoning the Zoning Officer. This person shall be designated by the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners." Brody seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Item 3- John Roberts request for rezoning was presented. Cannity moved that it be placed on the Planning Board agenda before the next regularly scheduled Public Hearing.