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DRAFT 18 ► 55 they see what is occurring in the area. As it stands, Office/Institutional will be a reasonable zoning category to put on this 56 property so the property owners can market their property accordingly. Discussion continued on the map. We heard 57 comments on this item from the.public. The owners were present and had no comments and want to proceed so staff 58 recommendation is that we continue with the rezoning of the parcels as shown and send it back to the Commissioners for 59 their April 17 meeting with a positive recommendation. 60 61 Brian Crawford: Were any of these properties part of the comment from the gentleman who said he did not want Office 62 Industrial but Commercial? 63 64 Craig Benedict: There are four very small parcels. Staff cannot amend the action to move it to a different category that 65 what was advertised and discussed in the public hearing. You can pull it out and say no. Staff is concerned there are a 66 variety of parcels along the frontage of Buckhom Road and if it was retail outright,we might get a one acre,one acre,type 67 of proposal to come forward versus having it Office/Institutional which might lend itself more to some sort of office park or 68 job based industry. As more properties in this area to come forward, we might be able to look at what retail opportunities 69 are at this interchange. Across the road is the infamous flea market,jockey lot, Buckhom Village. Retail,if at all, in any of 70 these zones,probably the closer you get to the intersection,the more appropriate for retail. One item on tonight's meeting 71 is creating a retail zoning district. We are describing what rules we would have. 72 73 Pete Hallenbeck: You pointed to the area between Rock Quarry and Ben Wilson and said that since it is not next to the 74 interstate it would be less likely to have retail there but is there not a long term plan and meeting with DOT about another 75 interchange on 1-85? 76 77 Craig Benedict: Yes. This is the Mattress Factory potential interchange. It is probably eight to ten years out. Within these 78 areas, if someone wanted to request a specific commercial endeavor,we do have the conditional use process. 79 80 Pete Hallenbeck: Your statement is on the retail off Buckhom is a planning for now and when the future interchange 81 comes,there is already the ability in the zoning rules to do something with it and it can be revisited in 10 years. 82 83 Larry Wright: Is there some sort of wiggle room for mixed use where having worked in RTP about 11:00am,you can see a 84 big flood of people heading toward restaurants. I guess they will be going to Mebane. If we had some sort of mixed use 85 situation here where people would not be going to Mebane to eat,you would have less traffic,congestion,etc. 86 87 Craig Benedict: We definitely are looking for employment, etc. in this area and I think the Buckhorn area could be that 88 destination of restaurants and other retail services to mix with that. We do allow some mixed use opportunities in our 89 Economic Development Zones. 90 91 Buddy Hartley:What about the property between Petro and the new zoning area of Mr.Darnell? 92 93 Craig Benedict: Orange County can do two things. You can zone people's property without their approval but they are 94 really ambivalent. Now that people are coming forward,they may see what is happening and it may be a larger area. 95 96 Lisa Stuckey: If Mr. Darnell wanted to request conditional use to put up a McDonald's,he could do that? 97 98 Craig Benedict: Yes. 99 100 Lisa Stuckey: On the other end, if offices were built, does the zoning permit a little restaurant or cafe to go in? Or they 101 would go through another process? 102 103 Craig Benedict: Yes. The Office/Institutional zone offers a certain list permitted by right. To my knowledge, retail is not 104 allowed in that. 105 106 Shannon Berry: It is not. 107 108 Lisa Stuckey: So they will have to drive off to get something to eat? 2