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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 dawn of Rfllahorouo4 HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 Town Clerk Agatha Johnson Supt. Water Works James Pendergraph Street Supt. L. D. Wagoner Chief of Police Arnold W. Hamlett Fire Chief 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.