Agenda - 09-12-2016 - D.3 - Zoning Atlas Amendment – Hillsborough Economic Development District

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379 Draft Franklin Garland: The question here is if people had investigated, not if they would have been notified. No one was notified. I've been there since 1975. No one was notified. And that would make more sense. Let me explain something, you say I'm not affected because --- and I got notified because I'm within 1,000 feet. Well 1,000 feet I can walk back and forth ten times in this room and that's 1,000 feet. So I am affected. But I wasn't notified. Lisa Stuckey: My question was simply whether this land had been identified for Economic Development for many decades. Craig Benedict: On both the Orange County land use map and on our zoning map and also on the Hillsborough- County joint land use map we do note where there are flood zones and we restrict development in there. So you can see that, so yes, part of that 160 acres is encumbered by a flood plain and we recognize that and no development can occur there. But there are other lands that would be available. Perdita Holtz: I'm wondering if it might be helpful since these 3 items are inter-related to go on and do the presentation on the second and third items because it might answer some of the questions and then we'll wait to act on each of them until after the presentations.Would that be helpful? Lydia Wegman:Yes, I do.Thank you. MOTION[later in the evening, after all three related items had been presented]by Lydia Wegman. Seconded by Lisa Stuckey. VOTE: 7-1 OPPOSED-GUTHRIE Paul Guthrie: I am uncertain,which is why I voted no. Lydia Wegman: I am voting in favor because I think there is a benefit to diversify land use. Agenda Item 9: Unified Development Ordinance(UDO)Text Amendment: To make a recommendation to the BOCC on government-initiated amendments to the text of the UDO that would modify existing regulations that pertain to the Hillsborough Economic Development District. This item is scheduled for the September 12, 2016 quarterly public hearing Presenter: Perdita Holtz, Planning Systems Coordinator Perdita Holtz presented item. Lisa Stuckey: So you're going to allow apartments but not single family or duplexes?Why? Perdita Holtz: Well because the purpose of the EDDs is to promote non-residential uses. Multi family, although it is residential, it is actually taxed differently than single family residential. It's considered more of a commercial use so there is some diversification of the tax base that occurs with multi family. Lisa Stuckey: I think I read some place that there is a worry that if you permit single family that the land will actually get eaten up by that.That there's a tendency for subdivisions. Craig Benedict: Part of the Waterstone development, it's called planned development, part of the County plan was more non-residential and over the years the market, because of the recession, the non-residential component was more muted and after the recession faster residential growth comes back so some conversions were made there. So residential is easier and so it's good that these areas were preserved. EDH3 now allows single family.We had a proposal, some of the Board members may remember, that some of these lands were going to be part of Hillsborough's extra territorial jurisdiction. Mainly the ones north of 1-40. And they were going to affix their zoning category to it and they were going to consciously say which areas were going to be residential and non-residential. They didn't do that because part of the cooperative agreement didn't go forward. That's why we're here 2 years later saying, well we need to put a zoning category on it that fits exactly, as close to possible, what the intent of our 6