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a~ <br />~~~~L~, ~ ~~~eV V ~~~ 16 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />51 <br />Craig Benedict: Just to reiterate, the rezoning, there's criteria within your zoning code that is <br />the basis of the criteria to decide on the rezoning. Consistency with the Comprehensive Plan, <br />those type of global, and as the attorney said, prior to acceptance or review of any application, <br />there will be special use criteria that will further elaborate what's in this application, it will lock in <br />specifically any conditions -underground electric and the like would be wrapped into the special <br />use permit. As part of that special use permit, findings of fact that address the criteria that's <br />also part of our zoning application criteria, and chapter eight would be illustrated. <br />(~ <br />Jay Bryan: So, the issue of their request for not having to abide by 14 of the criteria in the ED <br />Design Manual, the staff will make recommendations about their request that prior to either <br />board voting on the application. <br />Craig Benedict: That's correct. They're asking for design solutions different than what are in <br />the original manual, and staff will make recommendations concerning them and both boards will <br />be able to deliberate if those design solutions meet the intent of the planned development. <br />Geof Gledhill: .Let me add to that that the EDD Manual does not envision either a legislative <br />process or a special use permit process; it envisions a complex site development process, in <br />which the developer meets al( of the requirements of the EDD Manual. If the developer planned <br />to meet all of the requirements of the EDD Manual, you would never see it; it would be handled <br />at the staff level. (t could be a development as large as this. one, or even larger. But because <br />this development has in mind some different ideas, some different design approaches, and <br />different uses, then it's coming to you in both the legislative and the special use permit process. <br />So, presumably, the special. use permit itself will address the degree to which the design <br />solutions proposed by these applicants meet or exceed the requirements of the design manual. <br />Chair. Jacobs: So, in that. sense, there is a plan .for this economic development district. <br />Geof Gledhill: This will be a subset of that economic development. If this is approved, this will <br />be the plan of this portion of that economic development district. <br />Chair Jacobs: You might want to make copies of the design manual available to Planning <br />Board members and Commissioners that don't have it, or at least put it on disk.. You might want <br />to have maps. It might be easier to overlay things on a CD than it would be to have a whole <br />bunch of transparencies. I think it would be good to have some maps, but it might also be good <br />if you could make some CDs so that people could see how things overlay and have enough so <br />that we could share them with the public. And also, 1 think we need a land use map for the <br />area. One of our conversations with Mebane was. very specific about where it will and will not <br />extend water and sewer, because we had the same concern about the kind of sprawl around ' <br />Southpoint that we don't want in Orange County, and .neither did them. But you need to see <br />that on a map, and I think we need to see what we've agreed to with Mebane so that people can <br />understand what the parameters are in the conversation about water and sewer. <br />Michelle Kempinski: Is there still an opportunity, if a question comes up from any Planning <br />Board members to submit it to the developer after this meeting. <br />( ~. <br />Craig Benedict: The. process we have is depending on when the Commissioners close the <br />public hearing. Written questions can come forward; they are part of the public record, shared <br />with everyone -both the Commissioners and the general public. So, .written questions can <br />come forward and the answers can be prepared by the applicant or others to address those ~ C <br />questions prior to the deliberations so that everybody has equal access to those. We would <br />