HomeMy Public PortalAbout9.15.1983 Planning Baord Agenda and MinutesMayor
Lucius M. Cheshire Jr.
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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.
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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.
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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.