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To: Planning Board and News Media
From: Evelyn Poole -Kober, Chairman
Re: Agenda for Planning Board Meeting scheduled for August 7, 1986 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Town ball
Date: August 4, 1986
Item 1: Approval of Minutes from the June 5 and July 1, 1986 meetings.
Item 2: Recommendation on Gates' rezoning request.
Item 3: Recommendation on Freeland rezoning request.
Item 4: Committee Reports
PLANNING BOARD
MINUTES
August 7, 1986
Members present: Evelyn Poole -Kober, Chairman; Bob Rose, Hilda Brody,
Tarleton Davis, Barbara Page, Dr. Robert Murphy, Margaret Moore and Jim
Culbreth.
Others: Randy Moore and Warren Gates
The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by the Chairman.
Item 1: Approval of Minutes from the June 5 and July 1, 1986 meetings.
A correction should be made to the June 5 minutes correcting Calvin -Davis'
name to Calvin Ashley. Rose made a motion for approval of the June 5
-,.minutes as corrected, Davis seconded it. The motion,was.carried. ..Rose
!made a motion for approval of the July 1 minutes, Moore -seconded it. The
motion was carried.
The Chairman asked if there were any additions to the agenda.
Brody asked that Walker's property on Tryon Street be added.
Poole -Kober asked that a furniture refinishing business at Hassell St. and
Margaret Lane be added.
Item 2: Recommendation on Gates' Rezoning request. This request went to
Public Hearing on July 21. Rose made a motion that the rezoning request
from R-20 to R-10 be denied, Brody seconded it.
The Chairman reported that she had met with Joe Haynes and Dwight Kel.ly_.with
the Department of Transportation for their recommendation concerning this
proposed development. She reported that their findings showed that the site
distance would be impared due to the hills and curves of the road. They
recommended that a left turn lane with a 450 foot taper and a right turn
lane with a 150 foot taper would be required to ensure safety. Mr. Kelly
stated that in the near future that Oakdale would be a 5 lane road and
recommended that a 40' road frontage right-of-way would be required.
Gates responded that a 50' buffer has already been proposed for the development.
THe Chairman also said that Mr. Kelly said that the entrance to the development
should be located as far west on the property as possible due to the lay out
of the road.
Rose stated that based on the report from the Town engineer that a sewer
pumping station would be required since there was not a gravity sewer service
available at this time and that jockey pumps would have to be installed in the
booster pumping station to provide adequate water service that the request be
denied.
Page said that she would welcome the applicants to return with a cluster type
development (after talking with Marvin Collins) and after the availability of
water to serve the development is better known.
Planning Board Minutes
Page 2
August 7, 1986
Poole -Kober stated that she would like to see some recreational, _facilities
included in the development.
:Brody stated that in the past the Board had not.liked to change the zoning:
All members who were present at the public hearing voted in favor of Rose's
motion. The recommendation to deny the rezoning request will be forwarded
to the Town Board.
Item 3: Recommendation on Freeland rezoning request. This request went to
public hearing on July 21.
Page made a motion to deny the rezoning request from Office -Institutional to
General Commercial, Rose seconded it.
Goodwin who was not present at the meeting but was present at the public
hearing forwarded her recommendation to the Chairman'saying that she was
not in favor of rezoning -to General Commercial but was in favor of Neighborhood
Business. Ashley who also was not present at the meeting but at the public hearing
stated that.he felt Office -Institutional acted as a buffer between residential
and commercial.
The applicant had first asked that the property be rezoned to Neighborhood
Business but it did not meet the criteria of the ordinance. Applicant then
asked that it be rezoned to General Commercial. The Town Attorney stated
that a public hearing would not be required for this change since Neighborhood
Business was a more restrictive zoning.
At the Public Hearing the applicant stated that she wished to have either a
beauty parlor or a public relations business in her home and she could not
do this being zoned Office -Institutional.
The Board felt that a public relations business could be a permitted use in
an Office -Institutional zoning under the ordinance requirements.
The Board also felt that this was a similar situation fora rezoning request which
was denied for property on Highway 70 stating that Highway,70 acted as a buffer
between residential and commercial.
The members felt that Corbin Street acts as a buffer between commercial and
residential.
The motion made by Page and seconded by Rose was carried unanimously.
Item 4: Committee Reports
Brody reported that the Historic District Commission had denied a request for
renovations to the Turner -Strudwick office and asked that a site plan be submitted.
Brody reported for"the Greenways Committee that Trailways in Durham has dedicated
a section of land running from 70 to Mt. Sinai Rd. Brody talked with Marianne
Black who will be meeting with Ken -Thompson concerning developments in this area.
They will be asking that any developer who builds in this area be required to donate
1/35 of an acre for each house built.
Planning Board
Minutes
Page 3
Page reported that at the County ordinance review meeting that changes were
being made to their mobile home ordinance.
Page reported that the Board of Adjustment had granted -a -281--variance at
Burnside and a 12' variance on Revere Road..
Page reported that she had attended an affordable housing.program and ghe material
is on file in the Planning Department.
Moore presented a list of the cemeteries in the town to the members. The Board
is to designate on the map the location of the cemeteries. The'Board discussed
how cemeteries should be zoned. The -Town Attorndy has been asked if a separate
zoning was needed for cemeteries. Poole -Kober talked with Richard Ducker who
said that the use was more important than the owner, explaining that allowing
an office -institutional zoning in the middle of a residential zoning could
allow for an expansion of the 0-1 use, making the cemetery an.accessory use
and the expansion the use.
The members felt that burial sites should be zoned.the same •as their
surrounding zonings.
The members were concerned with the vacant lot on Tryon Street belonging
to Alan Walker being filled with crusher run since there is a creek on this
property. Page said she would contact Warren Faircloth, Erosion Control
Officer to check this matter out.
The Chairman reported that there is a furniture refinishing business
being conducted from a garage located at Hassell Street and Margaret
Lane. This matter was tabled until the next meeting to see if permits
were granted.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 p.m.
Minutes reported by Janet Cole.