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0OQeG 3 <br /> 2. <br /> 3° <br /> Z . road. Additional information requesed is found on the site plan <br /> 5° submitted by the applicant. Mr. Cannity said the woner of the pro- <br /> 6. is Mr. Fred Cates, 112 West Union Street, Hillsborough, North Carolina, <br /> 7° and that he had paid the fee for application. <br /> Mr. Polatty reviewed specific standards of evaluation as found <br /> 9, in Article 7 of the Zoning Ordinance. Some which are not covered <br /> 10. under Article 8 are: 1) Planned Development related to major <br /> -.--11• transportation; 2) relation to public facilities, utilities,- and <br /> 12. services; 3) .increased cost of police and fire protection; 5) the <br /> 13• physical character of the site with the relation to surrounding . <br /> 14• Property--the noise of Interstate 85 and proposed I-40, Mr. Polatty <br /> �5• said, is an environmental concern; 6) a unified control .p an of the <br /> 16• site--the plan has been submitted but it does not satisfy the require- <br /> 17• ments of Article 5.7 a-c. <br /> 1$° The applicant's representative requested the Planning. Director <br /> 19• make a statement that a decision could be made based on all sub- <br /> 2o. stantial evidence presented for the Special Use Permit, and that <br /> 21. the recommendation included in the packet (the agenda packet the Board <br /> 22° received). was not necessary o b <br /> Y e presented as evidence. The Plann?:-:- 1, <br /> 23• Director so stated. <br /> 24` Mr. John McAdams, the John McAdams Cor„ an <br /> p Y, presented the appli- <br /> ` . cant's evidence. Mr. McAdams summarized the material found in the <br /> 26. application for a Special Use Permit and noted one change, i.e. <br /> 27. there are now plans for 79 mobile homes on the site rather than the <br /> 28. original 86 as planned. (A copy of the•+application, with comments, <br /> �9• is found on pages of this book) . Mr. McAdams noted threee <br /> 30• specific responses in the presentation: 1) the site is well suited <br /> 31° for high density development of this nature; 2) the number of units <br /> 32'" proposed correlates with the price for which the sites may be rented. <br /> 33° and, 3) public aspects or concerns versus private aspects or concert..:. <br /> 34. Mr. McAdams questioned the accuracy of the expected vehicles using <br /> 35• Orange Grove Road if this project is approved, saying his own research <br /> 35° indicated one vehicle per 30 seconds entering the road, well within <br /> 37. that road's bearing capacity. He said the site is unsuitable for <br /> 38. <br /> 39. <br /> 40- <br />