Agenda - 11-04-1998 - 9a - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

13 4 1. The L.J. Rogers Trucking Company has been in business on this site for 24 years. With a gross income of over seven million dollars in. 1997, the company currently hires 68 employees: 55 dzivers, six office staff, three supply workers, and four dispatchers: 2. The Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the Board of County Commissioners I? years ago in 1983. The company complex is situated within the Carr Rural Community Node. 3. On the effective date for zoning nearly five years ago, the company office area (.73±a) was zoned NC-2, and the remaining company property (3.44a) was zoned AR. 4. Hinkley visited the company site with Rogers on August 31, and again with Rogers and Garry Simmons of Simmons Engineering and Surveying, Inc., on September 22. The firm has been engaged to prepare a site plan and, if necessary, a Comprehensive Plan and/or rezoning application for the November 23 public hearing. 6. The Simmons firm has already submitted a draft site plan. The consultants are awaiting direction from Planning Staff on which direction to take. ?. Impervious surface limitations in the Back Creek Protected Watershed present a further problem. Impervious surface on the site is limited to 12 percent. The complex already has an estimated 80 percent impervious surface covering the two parcels.6 An addition would increase the impervious surface. COMMENT ~; The above findings warrant the following considerati ns: 1. Determining whether currently proposed physical plant additions on the operations site are in accord with the planned uses for the Carr Rural Community Node; or 2. Claiming error in the Land Use Element and/or Zoning Ordinance in not recognizing the trucking firm as an existing land use worthy of note in the Carr Store Community Node; and 6 Section 6.23.3.c).1. Stormwater Infiltration and ~n ion ~~lon-rasid n ial R~quir m n .Orange County Zoning Ordinance. as amended. pp. 6-32 & 33. 4