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

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382 Draft accomplished". It doesn't mean they'd want us to proceed or not, and to come up with what departments are involved, what maps have to change, and we give that back to them on what we call a future amendment outline. An outline of how'd we'd get it done and that we involved Hillsborough, etcetera. And then we bring that back to them and the public's available to talk at those meetings, also.And they say please proceed or not proceed. It is an overlapping, multi layer process, as Perdita said. Perdita Holtz: What happens here does get presented at the public hearing, and the Minutes for this meeting are included, so the BOCC will be aware that that's something that you brought up. Nathan Robinson: Okay, because we literally just bought the property 6 months ago. We literally were playing with the plans to put single-family residences here.And just for the sake of everyone else, we have spoken with Perdita and Craig. So we had to modify our plans based on what the wave of the future is. We get that, and that's cool but as we modify we don't want to get stuck between a hard decisions if say this is going to stay R1 forever. Because then we feel like we're going to get stuck with our only use being our one usage, but that's not what the whole quadrant is tending toward. Lydia Wegman:Thank you. Franklin Garland: I have a quick question. How hard is it to get land use changed? I mean, my farm is for sale. But I've been approached by people that want it for commercial property. Perdita Holtz: It requires the same type of process that we're going through now. If you wanted to do it as an individual... Franklin Garland: But the same thing as Nathan's, it's like being between a rock and a hard place. Perdita Holtz:Any property owner can apply to amend any of these documents.The land use plan, the zoning map, the UDO. In order to have the County do a County initiated action it's something that we can potentially talk about. I can tell you that a County initiated amendment will take more than a year. Lydia Wegman:Thank you. Do you have any discussion? Paul Guthrie: I'm still unsure exactly. I would comment that I think if we can avoid stacking so many of these things on a meeting at one time, I understand there were reasons for that, it would be helpful.After 200 pages of material of which was changed at least twice and reading it, coming here and then having 2 hours of discussion, I still feel uncomfortable. And I'm not sure exactly, when you ask for my vote, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. It's not that I'm for or against, I'm just not sure in my own mind exactly what the best option is given all of the variables that are involved. So I just want to state that. Kim Piracci: I'm just clarifying a question, all these changes are being driven by the desire to increase the tax base; is that correct? Perdita Holtz: They're being pursued to diversify the tax base, not necessarily increase it. Tony Blake: In other words, to have the County less reliant on residential housing taxes, and have a little more diversity in the base. In case there's changes in the economy you have less of an impact. Craig Benedict:And the underlying analysis is non-residential property pays more taxes than it costs in services. So there's a little bonus there. And residential, in most cases, costs more than what we get in tax, unless it's a real expensive house. So Orange County is overly reliant on their residential property owners to provide those services that everybody loves. And that's for schools, that's for social services and health services. So our comprehensive plan which is how to promote growth in the right areas and match the uses to their locations. This has been for 40 years, an area at an interchange. We knew that it was coming that we needed to preserve and promote it for primarily non-residential uses. That's why one of the recommendations here was to bring down the single family 9