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'the ability to approve those minor deviations if there is a public purpose or a public benefit that` <br />could be derived. from making those minor deviations: <br />The first one is the maximum floor area in the ED-Limited Office - in the Linear Office District. That <br />district is set' up fora minimum 20,OOQ-square foot size lot: Vl/e have a maximum floor area ratio of <br />5,000 square' feet for each building of the 20,000. It is roughly 25 percent of the lot that could be <br />covered with the building:. <br />This particular zoning lot, once you tlo the two additions for the two properties, will be 3;25 acres,or <br />1'41,000 square feet. If you .played out the 20,000-square foot-lot, that would be the equivalent of <br />about 40,OQ0 square feet that you could actually build on those. lots if they were :all indivdually° <br />ubdivided and then brought back in with their 5,000-square foot maximums each.. However, the <br />Credit Union.. is not proposing to do that.. <br />The other thing,that could have happened on this site is, had the Credit Union not<purchased the <br />property, tha#'adjacent property cou d have been subdivided into 20,000-square foot ats and each° <br />of those could have come back with 5,000-square foot additions. So, roughly 10,000 square feet <br />could have been built if that adjacent property had been sold, or if someone else had. purchased it, <br />and they legally subdivided it and then .brought back a requirement. <br />You could have had-= up to 40,000 square feet on the same size lot, oc, under the second scenario, <br />you could have had, an additional 10,000 on that adjacent lot. What they are asking for is 7,334 <br />square feet fatal for the entire 3.25-acre site. It is up to the Board to decide and the Planning Board. <br />to look at as to whether or' not this request has sufficient public benefit. to allow this: request as it is <br />now: being proposed. <br />The seconddeviation that;the Credit Union is requesting wild be the Hll sborough Area EDD, which <br />was approved by BOCC as not allowing drive-through facilities: The four lanes that are there now <br />are technically grand-fathered in. They are also under a Specia Use .Permit and they cannot. be <br />deemed illegal under the Special'Use Permit (SUP) because the SUP was in place when he new <br />zoning. was put into effect. So the additional lane would be a request to deviate from the standards <br />of no drive-through facilities. The 33 percent expansion would be a request;to this Board.. <br />'The Planning Department researched this to find out what they may or may not be doing. They are <br />promoting their Internet banking. The Credit Union is encouraging people to do more of their <br />business by the Internet, The Credit Union will then. be able to reduce-the amount of "sit" times for <br />people looking to transact business at the drive-through.. They are looking to .service their existing <br />:clients and possible increase heir clientele. There is a'lirnitation as to what can be added to the. <br />Credit Union based on their criteria. I don't think just anyone can join the Credit Union. Sa they are <br />limited as to who would be able to joint the Credit Union over the--Tong.. term. They are looking at this <br />expansion as a way#o serve their existing client base, which#hey feel could also reduce emissions <br />because people are sitting for shorter amounts of time. <br />The third issue or deviation is really not a deviation.. The maximum building height in this proposed <br />district is 30 feet. The existing building is, in a<couple o€ places, 35 feet. Buf what the Credit Union <br />in asking.to add on is significantly less than the 30 feet. Any addition that they are looking to add <br />on to this building meets the requirements of the district. But, if it's rezoned.. to PD-ED-LNR, you will. <br />have anon-conforming situation and would'need a deviation that. is five feet, which would be a little <br />bit too all. <br />There,were cand'itions placed on thisrn 1997. We'have incorporated all of those back to it, related: <br />#o sewer and landscaping... NCDOT requirements .back then were to dedicate. right-af-ways, which <br />they did. For some reason it has not shown up on the Land Records system, but there was right-of- <br />way dedicated along. Hwy 86 for 20 feet. And the Credit Union figs requested. an additional five feet <br />