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q3� !.i surrounding the property is partly owner occupied and partly rental. With rezoning, when the shopping center is finished, determinations for the potential of this land can be made. The comprehensive land use plan for Orange County designates this land as 10-Year Transition and as a Commercial Transition activity node. Mr. Page stated that in 1979 special use permits were issued for the development of 200 acres and the Orange County Board of Commissioners rezoned six acres for use as offices. The Department of Transportation has said that as soon as the shopping center opens, they plan to make a traffic count to determine if a signal is needed. Mr. Page noted the need for this signal now. If a signal is installed, the traffic conditions will be regulated and safe traffic patterns will be established for this commercial area. He noted the changed conditions in the area - the opening of the shopping center; the offices underway; the Village Company building; the offices south of this property and the fire training station. The existing zoning map does not reflect these changes. In anticipation of objections made by the Planning Staff of Chapel Hill and Orange County, Mr. Page noted he would like to enter his remarks regarding the suggestion that a planned development be brought forth. He states: that zoning consists of plans to contract and direct the development and use of property providing for present and future use -- and noted this is a future use. He stated that most North Carolina cases have always said that ordinances are invalid when the surrounding uses of land make a tract unusable for residential purposes. The Orange County Planning Staff has recommended that this tract come before the Board as a Planned Development. He noted that present surrounding uses make this tract invalid for residential purposes. The Town of Chapel Hill Planning Staff has recommended that this tract be considered a Planned Development. After having read the Planned Development Ordinance, it is his understanding that the public can accommodate flexibility in the development of land where there is a desire to apply regulations more flexible and not less flexible than perhaps the Planning Staff would like. In regards to variances, it seems that in the Ordinance, the concern is for structure, topography and the whole making of uses for offices, institutions, commercial, recreational facilities, single family, multi-family or otherwise. if the principles of the zoning law are applied to this tract,it seems that this site would not be conducive to planned development, which is less than three acres and that planned development reasoning would not apply. Mr. Page made reference to the question of access to 86: there would be an access to 86 off of this property, and because this is a corner lot there would be two entrances. No other citizens made comments. d. $ezgninrg of J.P. Go for th--2rpgerty_j,p-Cbg12e1 Hill -TQYSbiP trorL R-1- to R-8 Residential Jeff Coutu made the presentation. (see pages of this book) The request is for rezoning from R-1 Residential to R-8 Residential for the purpose of allowing reasonable development as a residential site. The lot size is 44.8 acres and abuts the Chapel Hill zoning/corporate limits jurisdiction. The Land Use Plan designation of the subject property is 10-Year Transition; water and sewer lines would be extended at the developer's expense to serve the property. Immediate water service can be provided by OWASA by way of the extension of a- 12 inch or 16 inch main from a 16 inch main on Weaver Dairy Road. A longer line is needed to serve properties to the north of the proposed 1-40. Sewer