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378 <br /> Draft <br /> Tony Blake: I have some more questions... Who is driving the rezoning here? Is this a joint effort by Hillsborough <br /> and the County? <br /> Perdita Holtz:The Land Use plan is a joint Hillsborough-Orange County plan. <br /> Tony Blake: But there's no specific property owner that's saying, I want this re-zoning? <br /> Perdita Holtz: Right, this is a County initiated rezoning. <br /> Tony Blake:And Brantley doesn't have anybody in the hopper for development or anything like that? <br /> Perdita Holtz: We have been talking about rezoning these parcels for many months. As you know this isn't <br /> something that just happens in a month in Orange County.And I do believe that once people found out that land is <br /> available and the County might be interested that that has generated interest among people.And people are going <br /> out and seeing what's possible. <br /> Tony Blake: I agree, I just wanted to clear the air and make sure there wasn't a horse or a cart that was out of place <br /> here. I just wanted to make sure that we fully understood from the Planning Board perspective. <br /> Perdita Holtz: Our Economic Development staff has interest in marketing this property. <br /> Franklin Garland: It's a really odd place.. Like, why this? I can't understand it. I'm just curious what initiated this <br /> particular parcel? <br /> Tony Blake: Well I spoke to Steve Brantley about this sort of thing a year or two ago, back when the tax was put in <br /> for economic development and asked him what were the attractive places, and he mentioned these places, a while <br /> ago. I just wanted to make sure that my understanding hadn't changed. <br /> Chris Cole:So no one has expressed interest in having these rezoned, outside the County? Has anyone expressed <br /> an interest in having these rezoned outside the County staff? <br /> Perdita Holtz: Not that I'm aware of. <br /> Lisa Stuckey: I have a question. Would you take the little light and show us where the Hillsborough EDD is, and it's <br /> my understanding it's been there since at least the early 80's. I mean this is not a new initiative, this is something <br /> that's been designated for a while. <br /> Perdita Holtz: The Hillsborough EDD, it's kind of a scattered thing. It's not as cohesive as the other two that are all <br /> contiguous but it's along Old 86 here, it's all the purple lands. Waterstone used to be County EDD land, and then <br /> Hillsborough annexed it so now it's part of Hillsborough and it's shown as gray. And then there's some parcels up <br /> here near the Wal-Mart, and there's a couple parcels here zoned EDH2 and then also along New 86, in the vicinity <br /> of Waterstone. <br /> Lisa Stuckey: So since at least 1994 this has been clearly identified as economic development land, prior to that it <br /> was Commercial Transition. <br /> Perdita Holtz:Yes, there have been no changes in the boundaries of the EDDs. <br /> Lisa Stuckey: So if people had investigated they would have known that Hillsborough and the County have been <br /> envisioning this land for economic development sometime in the future. <br /> Perdita Holtz:That would be correct. <br /> 5 <br />