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JIM A1111i d Mr ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT 306F REVERE ROAD HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 MEMORANDUM TO: COUNTY HANASER BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PLANNING BOARD FROM: PLANNING DIRECTOR DATE: MAY 23, 19s8 SUBJECT: EXPANSION OF COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY MODE (CHEEKS TOWNSHIP LAND USE PLAN COMPONENT) COPIES: PLANNER III (COMPREHENSIVE) As part of the Cheeks Township Land Use Plan update, a petition was submitted by Dolly A. Hunter to include property on the northeast corner of U.S. Highway 70 and Oak Street in the Commercial-Industrial Activity Node. (See attached letter and map. ) Such petitions are not without precedent inasmuch as several are to be considered as part of the Joint Planning Area public hearing •on June 30. Others were received •during the initial preparation and consideration of the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. Such petitions are also different in that they are considered within the context of a larger plan amendment. Upon consideration of the request, the Planning Staff has proposed, as part of the Cheeks Land Use Plan update7 that the Activity Node be extended . in an easterly direction approximately 560 feet and 290 feet in a northerly direction - the approximate depth of the Red 4 Wh.ite Food Store lot. The expansion was proposed because of Staff concurrence with some of the• points made in the Hunter petition. Specifically, the availability of water and sewer will increase growth pressures, and traffic increases along U. S. Highway 76 will cause residential to non-residential use conversion on both sides of the highway. Since the preparation of the proposal to be presented at public hearing, the petitioner contacted adjoining property owners to inform them of the request. Subsequently, one or more adjoining arid/or nearby property owners contacted the Planning Department with concerns about the Activity Node expansion. The concerns focused on the desire to retain the