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'." . A : - 17 revenue for the County and provide jobs. The issue is the rezoning not the morals or what they sell. Allen Coon pointed out that the sale of pornographic material for a profit is no better than prostitution. He feels the County has a moral ' responsibility to check on the type of business that goes in there. . Ralph Warren spoke in opposition of the rezoning. The strip development that is occurring should be stopped. The pros and cons of what is sold need to be considered and the legal points that Dr. Kizer mentioned need to be reviewed. Ms. Lee spoke in support of the rezoning. 6., 7-14-giBEZONING Ig,QUEST FROM JAMES L. E1LL Planner Susan Smith presented for public comment a proposed rezoning request submittO by James Hill. The rezoning is for .57 acres on land located at the southeast corner of the intersection of U.S. 70 and N.C. 751 in Eno Township. The property is located in an area designated Twenty Year Transition Area and Cbmmercial Transition Activity Node. The present zoning of the property is Rural Residential 1. The applicant is requesting that the lot be rezoned. to Community Commercial III. Approval of the request would A! allow a community commercial use at this intersection. Smith commented on the potential impacts imposed by the request: (1) Water and Sewer Services - the City of Durham has indicated it would serve the site with public water and sewer services either in place or to be tl extended to the site. (2) Traffidjmmt - the property is located at the intersection of US 70 and NC 751. It has a total of 77 feet of road frontage; 64.3 feet abuts the sight distance triangle for NC 751 and the remainder of that abuts US 70. A strip of propdrty owned by Duke University separates this parcel from NC : 751. The closeness of this tract to the intersection and the small amount of road frontage limits access points and could cause traffic congestion at this .intersection The latest traffic count information dated 1982 indicates a count of 5800 trips per day on US 70 at the Durham County Line and 4600 trips per day on NC 751. Based on possible uses at this particular site, traffic generation could be as high as 1040 trips per day for a fast food restaurant and as low as 129 trips per day for an office use. (3) Police. Fire and Rescue Services, the Eno Volunteer Fire Department ,r. and Orange Count Yi Rescue Squad have indicated their willingness to serve this lot with no problems and the Sheriff's office indicated that this rezoning did ,I. not need law enforcement approval. (4) BAlatic6hip between Land Use Plan and Zoning. Ordinance - The Commercial Transition activity node designation corresponds with the full range of commercial zoning districts from LC-1 through GC4. The Zoning 1 '•.t Ordinance establishes the maximum amount of land zoned Community Commercial- , III at any activity node at 29 acres, except in rural, non-transition areas where the maximum is 15 acres. There is no acreage zoned CC-3 at this activity node. (5) yarmitted Uses - the permitted uses for CC-3 are the full range of services including commercial, office and service uses including limited automotive, convenience, durable goods, and other similar uses. Rezoning of the site would allow for development of the property for those uses permitted by right in the district. Development of the site must ' comply with applicable requirements of the Land Use Intensity system, landscaping and sCreeningr parking and signage. Smith stated that in reviewing the application and the criteria for rezoning, it is the Staffs' opinion that the potential traffic impacts in this , particular location suggest that the application for a general rezoning request be denied', ' Avkai.oi, • t!",_-)lio •K... 4 ZA u Y:1 r.Lftto s; • eIvi , TUN: 10). V 4 klklik. ;•iNt Planning Board member Chris Best asked the applicant to state his intended use of the property. Mr. Hill stated that a building would be built 1 I 1 ,