Agenda - 06-21-2016 - 5-a - Minutes

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4 1 Chair McKee opened the public hearing, and asked if the Board had any questions. 2 Commissioner Price asked if the 01 district is only in the Mebane area. 3 Ashley Moncado said it is only in the Efland area along the I-85/Highway 70 corridor. 4 Commissioner Price asked if there is a reason that educational institutions are being 5 taken out. 6 Ashley Moncado said the 01 district is being modified to reduce confusion in changing 7 land use types. 8 Commissioner Price said if on the job training was desired, or a partnership with a 9 manufacturing facility, an educational institution may be desired there. 10 Ashley Moncado said those uses would still be allowed. 11 Commissioner Pelissier asked to how many acres this applies, approximately. 12 Ashley Moncado said she did not know, but there are some rather small parcels. 13 Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning Director, said 250 plus acres are designated as 14 institutional in the Efland to Buckhorn to the Mebane Corridor. 15 Commissioner Price asked if office institutional is only in this area, will the 16 office/research/manufacturing (ORM) still be there. 17 Ashley Moncado said 01 will now become ORM, and this will be the only area where 18 ORM will be designated. 19 Commissioner Price said it seemed that a new category is being made for this one area 20 of the County and not in other areas. 21 Craig Benedict said one area was left out when other Economic Development Districts 22 (EDD)were pre-zoned, which was in the Elfand-Buckhorn-Mebane corridor. He said staff will 23 be clear to potential clients that this is a non-residential area and that residential components 24 have been removed. 25 Commissioner Jacobs said he thought there was OI in the Hillsborough EDD west of Old 26 86. 27 Craig Benedict said as for as he remembered there was no OI in that area, but he would 28 check. 29 Commissioner Jacobs referred to the chart regarding permitted uses, which discusses 30 permitted uses moving to permitted-by-right, meaning pre-approved. He said the County spent 31 years working on transfer of development rights in the EDD, and asked if transfer development 32 rights (TDR) is being precluding in the EDDs within their jurisdiction. 33 Craig Benedict said this would be conditional permitting now and mixed use would still 34 be permitted in the commercial industrial activity nodes. He said an ORM could be rezoned to a 35 conditional use district. 36 Commissioner Jacobs said if permitted-by-right creates a certain economic use, then 37 people are being asked to take on more density in the EDD areas. 38 Craig Benedict said there are floor area ratios which are used to control how much 39 happens in zoning areas, but in this process, floor area ratios are not being decreased. 40 Commissioner Jacobs said he would like to make a motion after this discussion for the 41 Board and the Planning Board to receive a presentation on TDR. 42 Commissioner Price asked if staff could please provide a map of the parcels that are 43 involved in this process. 44 Craig Benedict said this process is not creating any new office/institutional zoning. 45 Commissioner Price said this may cause more development and could cause the land to 46 look like a checkerboard; industrial interspersed with residential. 47 Craig Benedict said most members of the public are seeing this as a positive, and it has 48 been on the land use map for 25 years. 49 50 PUBLIC COMMENT 51 NONE 52 53 A motion was made by Commissioner Price, seconded by Commissioner Burroughs to 54 close the public hearing.