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<br />~~ <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 23, 2009 <br /> <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. C-1 <br />SUBJECT: Zoning Atlas Amendment (Rezoning) -Intersection of NC 54 and White Cross <br />Road (Davis) <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: {YIN) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Rezoning Petition <br />2. Staff Generated Maps Detailing Rezoning <br />Request and Boundary of Node <br />3. Mail out Certification/Property Owner <br />Letter <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Name <br />Craig Benedict, Director <br />Michael D. Harvey, Planner <br />Phone Number <br />245-2592 <br />245-2607 <br />PURPOSE: To hold a public hearing on a petition submitted by Mr. Vernon Davis to rezone a <br />portion of his four point seven (4.7) acre parcel of property located at the intersection of NC 54 <br />and White Cross Road (TMBL 6.30..7M /PIN 9749-40-0293). <br />BACKGROUND: This item was originally reviewed at the November 24, 2008 Quarterly Public <br />Hearing where staff recommended denial of the petition due to its noncompliance with provisions of <br />the Orange County Zoning Ordinance, spec~cally limitations on the cumulafive amount of <br />permissible non-residentially zoned properly allowed within Nodes. <br />This issue was rectified through a text amendment to Section(s) 4.2.8 and 4.2.9 of the Zoning <br />Ordinance approved by the BOCC on August 18, 2009, which now allows for additional commercial <br />acreage. <br />PETITION REQUEST: Mr. Davis owns iwo parcels of property at the southwest quadrant of White <br />Cross Road and NC Highway 54. <br />One parcel is an eight thousand four hundred (8,400) square foot parcel of property that is zoned <br />Neighborhood Commercial Two (NC-2). The second parcel (the parcel subject to the submitted <br />rezoning petition) is a four point seven (4.7) acre parcel of property zoned Agricultural Residential <br />(AR). <br />Both properties are located within the Haw River Unprotected Watershed and within the White Cross <br />.Rural Community Activity Node. (Please refer to the maps contained within Two (2) of this abstract <br />for more detail). <br />