ORD-2001-011 Non-residential Approval Procedure for Subdivision, Zoning and Economic Development Ordinance Amendments

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DRAFT DECEMBER 12, 2000 PUBLIC HEARING MINUTES 8 I A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Carey to 2 accept the staff and public input into the public hearing record, and to refer item C1 d to the 3 Planning Board for a recommendation to be returned to the Board of County Commissioners no 4 sooner than January 18, 2001. 5 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 7 e. Amendments to the Orange County Economic Development District (EDD) Design 8 Manual related to the 140 /Old NC86 and 1- 85/NC86 economic development district 9 to include abridging and revising the manual to cite more objective standards of 10 review in the areas of performance standard, landscaping, buffers, parking 11 lighting, setbacks and architecture. These standards would be used in site plan 12 review of EDD /Limited Office Districts as well as future EDD special use zoning 13 districts. 14 Craig Benedict said that this was an abridged version of the existing manual. The 15 volume ratios are deleted and replaced with guidelines about building and parking area volumes. 16 Planning Board member Rachel Preston asked where the tree and shrub list came from. 17 Craig Benedict said that this list is the original list from the 1993 -94 design manual. He would be 18 willing to work with someone on this. 19 20 Public Comment 21 Scott Radway requested an electronic file of this abridged manual. 22 Vic Knight made reference to area two and asked whose area this was in and Craig 23 Benedict said that area two is within Hillsborough's jurisdiction. The jurisdictional boundary 24 between Orange County and Hillsborough is Cates Creek. 25 Vic Knight asked if the manual that is being discussed tonight will be adopted by the 26 Town of Hillsborough and Craig Benedict said that they are working toward a code that is similar or 27 the same as the County's. Mr. Knight has asked Robert Davis for. a copy of the abridged manual. 28 A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Carey to 29 accept the staff and public input into the public hearing record, and to refer item C1e to the 30 Planning Board for a recommendation to be returned to the Board of County Commissioners no 31 sooner than January 18, 2001. 32 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 33 At this time, it was 10:35 p.m. The Board agreed to continue the meeting until 11:00 p.m. 34 f. Non - residential subdivision amendments continued from November 27, 2000 36 public hearing. 37 Craig Benedict said that this would set standards for non - residential subdivisions. 38 Presently, there are no minimum lot sizes for non - residential subdivisions. The amendments 39 would establish a minimum lot size of four acres in an EDD. If someone brings forth a master plan 40 of 20 acres or more, they have the ability to have pods that could be two acres in size. 41 42 Public Comment 43 Vic Knight feels that the current subdivision regulations address this issue. There are 44 many uses for parcels of property less than four acres. For an office building, a four -acre lot is 45 extremely large. He understands the issue with curb cuts but feels that there are other ways to 46 control traffic within a parcel. 47 A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Brown to 48 accept the staff and public input into the public hearing record, and to refer item C1f to the 49 Planning Board for a recommendation to be returned to the Board of County Commissioners no 50 sooner than January 18, 2001. 51 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 52