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HomeMy Public PortalAbout12.8.1983 Planning Baord Agenda and MinutesMayor Lucius M. Cheshire Jr. Commissioners Allen A. Lloyd W. Paul Martin Remus J. Smith Rachel H. Stevens Lynwood J. Brown December 5, 1983 To: Planning Board From: Myron Martin MOM attuJobar,11 �.✓ Town Clerk ii Agatha Johnson HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 Supt. Water Works C. E. Rosemond � c . Street Supt, ilOC L. D. Wagoner ti Chief of Police Arnold W. Hamlett b CA.R% Agenda for the Planning Board Meeting, December 8, 1983 at 7:30 P.M. at the Town Hall Item 1- Rezoning application from McBroom Realty for Robert Lucas for .285 acres located at the southwest corner of Highway 70 and Short Street. This property adjoins residential property to the south and east on Short Street. Property to the west (about 14,000 square feet) is zoned General Commercial. Across the street, there is property at the northwest corner of Faucette Mill Road is zoned commercial while property at the northeast corner is zoned residential. This application if completed could be placed on the January 24, 1983 Public Hearing. Item 2- Rezoning application from Theodore and Sharon Freeland for rezoning of their property west of Lloyd's property at Corbin and Churton. This request and the request above are for rezoning from residential to General Commercial. The Freeland property has commercial property located to the north and the east. Residential property is located to the west and south and also to the northeast. 2 acres Item 2A- Rezoning request from John Roberts forAeast of his commercial zoning. Item 3- West Orange Study Area. Orange County had a public hearing on this area and kept their hearing open for comments from the Hillsborough Planning Board and Town Board. The area under consideration includes location of existing and proposed water supply reservoirs for the Town of Hillsborough. The consideration of protection of the reservoirs by limiting development to two acre minimum lots for residential use is part of the Study. The Planning Board's comments on this are important. Susan.Smith will present. Item 4- Orange County has two rezoning requests which need to have immediate comments from the Planning Board. One rezoning request is for 2.77 acres surrounding the Orange Garden ,enter on Highway 70 adjacent to the Pantry at the corner of St. Mary's Rd. The request is from R-1 to NC -2 Neighborhood Commercial. The other property is located on the south side of Oakdale Drive east of Kelly Drive (Private Road). The request is for rezoning from R-1 to R-4. Item 5- James Freeland has requested consideration of two mobile home lots on his property east of the Campgrounds. HILLSBOROUGH PLANNING BOARD Minutes of December 8, 1983 Meeting Members present: Myron Martin -Chairman, Rick Cannity, Hilda Brody, Tarleton Davis, Nancy Goodwin, Dr. Murphy and John Dorward. Others: Susan Smith, Theodore and Sharon Freeland, and Zoning Officer. Myron Martin called the meeting to order and offered Holiday Greetings to the members of the Planning Board. He welcomed Dr. Robert Murphy to the Planning Board. Martin suggested that since two new members are to be appointed to the Planning Board a letter should go out to them explaining the rules of the Planning Board and welcoming them to the Board. Cannity suggested that the Board's Rules of Procedures need to be revised and approved by the Planning Board and them adopted by the Town Board. On motions for Vice Chairman, Murphy nominated Brody who declined the nomination. Brody nominated John Dorward. Goodwin seconded the nomination. Cannity moved that the nominations be closed. Murphy seconded the motion. Dorward was appointed by acclamation. Martin then presented a Work Program which he had prepared for the Planning Board. He noted that a directive was needed from the Town Board prior to the appointment of a committee to develop Subdivision Regulations. The Work Program was delayed until the next meeting so that the Board could have time to consider it. Martin passed around Sheffield's letter of resignation to the other members. Regarding rezoning requests, since the McBroom rezoning request on Highway 70 and Short St. was incomplete, it was to be rescheduled to the next meeting. Sharon Freeland spoke on her rezoning request. She noted that the property is located across the street from General Commercial - the Station which is vacant and apartments. Ben Lloyd.'.,s property is adjacent; the Lloyd property was just approved as General Commercial. On the west side of the Freeland property on Corbin St. is rental property. The Freeland house has been on the market for a year and has not sold due to the surrounding commercial uses. They have had inquiries from buyers wanting to use the property for office use. The Institute of Government had suggested creating an off ice-insKtutional zoning prior to adoption of the revisions. Cannity said that he and Goodwin's committee would work on that, but he wanted to know if the Freeland property would be nonconforming dimensionally if it was rezoned. The right of way needs to be determined as well as the setback. The rezoning petition from John Roberts was considered next. Davis said that he thought that Roberts had a legitimate request in wanting to extend his commercial property east. The area which has been filled is the area requested for rezoning. Martin noted that the Freeland request and the Roberts request should be heard at the January Public Hearing, which is scheduled on Tuesday, January 24, 1984. Susan Susan Smith presented the West Orange Study Area Plan. She noted that the plan would increase the protection of the existing and prospective water supplies immediately west of Hillsborough as well as increasing the residential, commercial Page two, Hillsborough Planning Board, December 8, 1983 meeting and industrial zones. Martin noted that the Water Committee of the Town Board could consider ways to preserve water quality for Hillsborough. tmith said that an engineering review due in January would examine protection of the water supplies as well as extension of sewer lines. She noted that the Triangle J COG staff is concerned about the long term maintenance of package treatment plants and that Cary maintains package plants put in by developers who pay maintenance fees to the Town. Cannity made a motion that the Planning Board recommend to the Town Board that the Town support the attempts of the Orange County Staff and Planning Board and County Commissioners to preserve and protect the watersheds and water supplies in Orange County and support the water quality critical areas with some reservations about the large size of the commercial and industrial areas as designated on the plan. Dorward seconded the motion which passed unanimously. The draft regarding treatment of signs and landscaping requirements in the I-40 corridor is due on December 19, 1983. Smith said that the Town Planning Board might want to review that draft. Thomas Merritt had requested a rezoning from the county. Planning Board members were concerned about the preservation... of neighboring residential property and buffers for those existing neighborhoods. Control over access to Highway 70 was also expressed. Dorward moved that the request be rejected and that the concerns could only be addressed by a Planned Development Process. Brody seconded this recommendation to Orange County Planning Board. The motion passed. Cannity moved that the recommendation on the Bruce Smith property be that the Board had no major objections to the request. Murphy seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Goodwin made a report on the progress of her committee. She also presented a letter from Triangle J COG in response to a letter she had sent regarding storm water runoff. The meeting was adjourned.