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