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HomeMy Public PortalAbout9.15.1983 Planning Baord Agenda and MinutesMayor Lucius M. Cheshire Jr. Commissioners Allen A. Lloyd W. Paul Martin Remus J. Smith Rachet H. Stevens Lynwood J. Brown September 9, 1983 Xam ill joke (` ov Torun Clerk •••✓✓✓ Agatha Johnson HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 SUP1. Water Works C. E. Rosemond •. Street Supt. L. D. Wagoner Chief of Police -r• 9 / Arnold W. } lam leu To: Planning Board and News Media From: Frank Sheffield Agenda for a Special Meeting of the Planning Board to be September 15, 1983, at 7:30 P.M. at the Town Hall: Item 1- Request for rezoning by Dr. Singer for lots 12 and 14 of Tax Map 15, which. are adjacent to Lloyd's Quickie Mart and are across from the Town Hall on Fast Corbin Street. The rezoning request is for General Commercial or Neighborhood Commercial. The proposed use is for medical offices. item 2- Consideration of Ben Lloyd's request for General Commercial zoning of the property at the southwest corner of Churton and Corbin Streets. A recommendation is to go to the Town Board. Item 3- Work Session on proposed revisions to the Zoning Ordinance. HILLSBOROUGH PLANNING BOARD Minute.q of September 15, 1983 Meeting Members present: Frank Sheffield -Chairman, Myron Martin, Judy Cox, Nancy Goodwin, Wayne Oakley, Hilda Brody, John Dorward and Rick Cannity. Others: Dr. Philip Singer, Ben Lloyd, Steve Yuhasz and Kay Maltbie, Zoning Officer. Sheffield stated that he had prepared letters of appreciation to go to Josephine Holman and Arthur Plamb.eck for their service on the Planning Board. Item 1 was considered. This was a rezoning request made by Dr. Singer and Dr. Mold for lots 12 and 14 of Tax Map 15, which are across from the Town Hall on East Corbin Street. The rezoning request was from R-20 to General Commercial or Neighborhood Commercial. Dr. Singer stated that three doctors and one dentist wanted to build a medical office on the property. He stated that the building currently planned would be about 6000 square feet, but that another building for professional offices might be added later. The first building would face Corbin; a later building would be a long narrow building perpendicular and behind the first building. The lots have 260 feet fronting on Corbin, 415 feet at the longest side (eastern property line), and 154 feet deep on the western property line. Commercially zoned property lies to the west and north, while residential is on the east side and the Town Hall is on the south. Sheffield noted that the proposed ordinance revisions would provide for an office and institutional zone which would be appropriate for this use. Sheffield left it up to the applicant to decide whether to request neighborhood commercial or general commercial, since Singer had indicated that he would like to use some of the setback for parking in front of the building. Cox made a motion that the request be placed on the next quarterly public hearing for either neighborhood commercial or general commercial. Martin seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Item 2 was the decision on the recommendation on Ben Lloyds request for rezoning of the property at the southwest corner of Churton and Corbin Streets. Sheffield asked for the input from the Historic District Commission on the request. Brody said that John Seelye was completely opposed personally to the rezoning. Maltbie reported that the Commission had not been opposed to the rezoning at the meeting where they discussed it. They were accustomed to the commercial use at that corner; however, Seelye, Chairman of the Commission, later stated that he was opposed to the request. Sheffield asked if: the use was changed to General Commercial, would the conditional use requirements be effective. Goodwin said if the commercial use required a conditional use, the owner would have one year to comply with the new conditions. Cannity said that he felt the request was similar to the Faribault rezoning request; he said that he thought everyone should be considered using the same parameters. He could not stay for the rest of the meeting. Martin said that he has asked for time to go look at the property. He did look at it twice. He noted that it had been a service station since he was little, but he was concerned about the impact on the neighborhood. He noted that in gection three of the ordinance, rights of neighborhoods were mentioned. He said that conflicts between commercial uses and neighborhood uses should be avoided. He was opposed to opening up the area to General Commercial. Page two, Planning Board Meeting, September 15, 1983 Dorward said that one nonconforming business use was recently zoned residential and was rezoned commercial; this request would seem to be the same sort of thing. Brody: This kind of thing can tend to snowball. Other commercial requests might be made adjacent to this property.which is part of the Historic District. Dorward: There are also a lot of other uses in the Historic District that are worst than Lloyd's. Brody: It has always been such a slum. What would be worst? What is the size of the lot? (The lot was noted as L-shaped with a portion of the lot surrounded by residential, about 8800 square feet) We do know what is there now. Yuhasz: 'It is visually a problem. If it is left as a nonconforming use, it can't be any different. He doesn't have anything else that he can do with it. Lloyd: I have an enterprising young man in the garage now. Brody: Earlier you had said that it was important that we pass cin it quickly but in another statement, you said that it wasn't urgent. Lloyd: It was inconvenient that you people wanted to get the opinion from the Historic District Commission and had to delay it. Brody: But Jeffries has a lease. Lloyd: Jeffries doesn't have a lease as of right now. It has been cleaned up. Brody: No thanks to you. Lloyd: You don't know that. Cox: I am a bit concerned by the back strip of land which is surrounded by resi- dential. (The map showed about 11 feet into the back strip of land). Lloyd said there was actually about twenty feet for a drive back into that land. Lloyd said that he anticipated that if the young man was successful, cars which were waiting for parts could be put in the back of the lot where the cars would not be seen. He said that he had encouraged the man to keep the lot more presentable and to consider any appearance recommendations by the Historic Distr'.ict Commission. He said that he had worked to spruce the place up and was trying to get the former tenant to haul away the car junked behind the station. Martin: It has been used as a garage for many years now. Sheffield noted that on the one hand the building was a long standing commercial use. On the other side the building is wedged in between residential uses. A rezoning from nonconforming to General Commercial would allow other structures to be built which would conform to the setbacks. The nonconforming use would allow Lloyd to use the back lot for cars. Dorward said that a General Commercial use would have to present a plan for a twenty foot buffer where it abutted residential. The nonconforming use would not have to have a buffer and the back lot could be used. Goodwin said that parking cars on the back lot would be an extension of a nonconforming use and would be prohibited by the ordinance. Dorward made a motion that the Planning.. -Board recommend to the Town Board that the request for rezoning be approved. Martin seconded the motion which failed with Dor- ward and Martin in favor and Brody, Cox, Oakley and Goodwin opposed. Page three, Planning Board, September 15, 1983 meeting Sheffield said that since the motion had failed that the request would be forwarded to the Town Board with the recommendation that it remain nonconforming. Sheffield said that the North Carolina Land Use Congress was having a meeting on improving the appearance of N.C. cities and towns at the McKimmon Center on October 202 1983. He said that the Town Board had.decided to send someone from the Planning Board and to provide the $25 registration fee and mileage. No one on the Planning Board would be able to attend. Cox made a motion to send the Zoning Officer to the meeting. Oakley seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Yuhasz explained the rezoning request from.Richard Robinson and Calvin Ray. The request involved three lots behind the Office Center which are on N -K Street which is unpaved. Yuhasz said that Fred Cates said that the Town had put rock on N -K Street 10 years ago. Yuhasz said that the street was on record for years and that there was a fire hydrant there. Martin said that there were houses there many years ago. Cox made a motion to send it to the Town Board for the Quarterly Public Hearing. Martin seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Sheffield noted that the minutes of June 2, July 14 and August 4, 1983 needed to be considered. Martin made a motion to approve those three minutes. Oakley seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Martin asked about the letters of resignation. He said that. both Plambeck and Holman's letters should be sent to the Clerk to the County Commissioners and to the Town Board. Changes for Section 11 were considered. Nancy and her committee were commended for their hard work and mammoth task. The meeting was adjourned.