HomeMy Public PortalAbout5.2.1985 Planning Board Agenda and MinutesMayor
Frank H. Sheffield, Jr.
Commissioners
Lynwood J. Brown
Horace H. Johnson
Allen A. Lloyd
Remus J. Smith
Rachel H. Stevens
April 26, 1985
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HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278
Town Clerk
Agatha Johnson
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James Pendergraph
Street Supt.
L. D. Wagoner
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Arnold W. Hamlett
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John Forrest
To: Planning Board and News Media
From: Myron Martin, Chairman
Agenda for the Planning Board meeting on May 2, 1985 at the Town Hall at 7:30 P.M.
Item 1- Courtesy review of subdivision request by J.H. Culbreth, Jr., on Tuscarora
Avenue. The Plat is in the Zoning Office.
Item 2- Question from a citizen who wants to have his residence in the central
commercial zone. He wants to know whether to ask for a rezoning or a change in
the ordinance or what else might be suggested.
Item 3- The rezoning requested by the property owners between Nash on the west,
Corbin on the South and Revere and Highway 70 on the north has been shown on the
new zoning map and posted for the April 22, 1985 hearing. The residents would
like the request to go on to the Town Board.
Item 4-. Committee Reports
Item 5 --Work Session on the comments from the Public Hearing regarding the proposed
ordinance.
Minutes of the May 2, 1985
Planning Board.'
Meeting
Members present: Myron Martin -Chairman, Barbara Page, James Culbreth, Nancy Goodwin,
Calvin Ashley, Tarleton Davis, Evelyn Poole -Kober, Hilda Brody, Bob Rose.
Others: James Rae Freeland, John Dorward and Kay Maltbie, Zoning Officer.
Item 1- Corrections were made to the March. minutes. Nancy Goodwin should have
been listed as present. Evelyn Poole -Kober corrected the next to:.the last sentence
at the bottom of page 1 of the March minutes.
Page made a motion to approve the March minutes. Ashley seconded the motion which
passed.
Corrections to the April minutes wert.that Calvin Ashley was present and a name .error.
Ashley made a motion that the April minutes be approved as corrected. Brody seconded
the motion which passed.
Rose made a motion that the January minutes be approved. Ashley secoinded the motion
which passed.
Item IA- James Rae Freeland gave the information on the request for a subdivision of
four acres on the east side of the 10 acre tract across from the Hillsborough Motel
which was desired by Betty Hicks. The remainder of the tract was owned by Apple
Creek. Goodwin made a motion to approve this subdivision request. Page seconded
the motion which passed unanimously.
Item 1B- James Culbreth described his subdivision request for the splitting of a
12 acre tract of land on Tuscarora drive. He noted that the Dark Walk or Winowa
Walk goes by the land and is owned by the Town. Culbreth is going to build a house.
There will be an easement for the driveway of the larger parcel of about 7 acres.
Rose made a motion to approve this subdivision request. Page seconded'the motion
which passed unanimously.
Item 2- This was a question regarding what would be the best solution to a request
for residential use in a commercial zone. The Planning Board felt that the solution
would be to have residential as a conditional use in a Commercial Zone. This step
would require a conditional use section on standards be added to the zoning ordinance.
Standards should include parking, easement or access for driveway, and use for
residential by the owner of the building or shop. Other requirements might also
be added.
Item 3- The rezoning requested by the property owners between Corbin and Revere,
Nash and Highway 70- needed to go to the Town Board.again.since.the entire. Zoning
Map and Ordinance was not passed yet. 'Brody made -a motion to send. Item'3 to the
Town Board for approval of the rezoning from R-10 to R-20 for the area east of
Nash St., north of Corbin St.,south of Revere Road and Revere Road north to
Highway 70, and after Item 3 was considered by the Town Board to refer the entire
map to the Town Board. Rose seconded the motion which passed.
Item 4- Committee Reports: Page said that the County is looking at Joint Planning
with Chapel Hill and Carrboro. There will be a $5,000 for a study of a Thoroughfare
plan for Southern Orange. It does not include Hillsborough. Page also noted that
OWASA sludge on farms near streams was causing runoff problems for wells and streams.
Brody made a motion that Hillsborough be included in the thoroughfare study and
in joint planning with the County. Culbreth seconded the motion which passed.
The motion made on the thoroughfare plan and joint planning was to go to the Town
Board as a recommendation.
Martin reported on the April meeting of the Board of Adjustment. Brody reported
on the Historic District Commission.
Poole -Kober noted that builders in the downtown area should clean up around their
building sites daily. She made a motion to ask the Town Board.to pass an ordinance
requiring builders in the downtown area to clean up around their building sites
daily. Page seconded the motion which passed.
Brody made a motion to ask the Town Board to pass an ordinance requiring signs and vending
activities to be off the street rights of way. Poole -Kober seconded the motion
vihich passed unanimously.
Item 4A which had been added was the application submitted to Orange County by
Chandler Concrete Company for a Land Use Plan amendment to Ten Year Transition
and to Commercial -Industrial Transition Node for an additional 4.34 acres on Old
N.C. 10 . After thorough discussion, the Hillsborough Planning Board.by motion
of Page and second of Brody and a passing vote recommended denial to Orange
County for the following reasons:
1- Pollution of the surrounding waters is expected to continue and increase.
2- This expansion of almost three times the existing use which is 1.47 acres is
not appropriate due to the residential housing nearby including a mobile home
park across the road as well as a mobile home park and housing to the east.
3- The narrow road isnot appropriate for this expansion of the commercial -
industrial transition -node. The trucks are now a hazard. Expansion would increase
the hazards.
4- There are no sewer lines in the area. The Town has no plans to expand sewer lines
into the area.
Item 4B (added to the agenda) was consideration of -rezoning requests to the County
for Scotswood, the.formdr Beard property; and 1.5 -"acre lot on Faucette Mill Rd.
There was.not yet a'water-sewer letter on the former Beard property on 70-A East,
and the other two properties wereaffected by the engineering report not yet
completed north of Town.
Rose made a motion that with the limited facts and time available to study.the
rezoning requests and with the incomplete information, the Planning Board.is
compelled to recommend no; however when complete information is available and
sufficient time is given,- the Hillsborough Planning` Board.. would be. happy to
review the requests.
Poole -Kober seconded the motion which passed unanimously.
Item 5- Dorward.said that the large difference of opinion heard at the Public
Hearing concerned the Conditional Use Permit required for the second structure
on a commercial or industrial lot. Dorward said it would be self-defeating to
change the ordinance now. He suggested sending it to the Town Board for
approval. The Planning Board has 'shown its willingness to compromise and change.
There was concern by the Town Board that the changes would be as slow as the
ordinance. The ordinance should be checked legally. Martin made a motion .that
after the work session scheduled for June 23 by the Town Board that the Planning
Board ask for adoption. Ashley seconded the motion which passed.
Poole -Kober asked that the Board consider a ban on in -town burning as a recommendation.
The meeting was adjourned.