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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.
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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
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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.