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75 <br /> AREA OF COMMENTS: APPLICANT BOCC PLANNING <br /> CONCERN: RESPONSE: RESPONSE: BOARD <br /> Includes comments RESPONSE: <br /> made during, and staff <br /> comments identified <br /> within the abstract for, <br /> the August 27, 2012 <br /> Quarterly Public <br /> Hearing <br /> LAND USE BUFFER BOCC members Please refer to BOCC members At its October 3, <br /> expressed concern over response contained asked for pictures 2012 regular <br /> the proposed clustering within Attachment 1 to be taken of the meeting, the <br /> of foliage along NC surrounding area Planning Board <br /> Highway 57 and Mile and other self- indicated they <br /> Branch Road rather storage facilities were satisfied with <br /> than a continuous land in the County to the proposed land <br /> use buffer. aid the Planning use buffers as <br /> Board in its denoted on the <br /> It was recommended deliberations. plan and did not <br /> that a continuous Utilizing these recommend the <br /> vegetative buffer be pictures, the imposition of a <br /> provided consistent with BOCC has asked condition requiring <br /> County standards. the Planning additional <br /> Board to vegetation along <br /> There was a lack of determine the NC Highway 57. <br /> consensus over the appropriateness <br /> appropriateness of of the proposed <br /> proposed land use land use buffer(s). <br /> buffer widths along <br /> adjacent roadways and Please refer to <br /> residentially zoned Attachment 2 for <br /> properties. the photos <br /> A majority of the <br /> BOCC indicated <br /> satisfaction with <br /> the proposed land <br /> use buffer along <br /> Mile Branch <br /> Road. <br /> There was no <br /> consensus on the <br /> proposed buffer <br /> along NC <br /> Highway 57 with <br /> some members <br /> requesting a more <br /> intense buffer. <br />