Agenda - 12-03-1985 - Laserfiche WebLink

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• • 0 0 0 0 1 1 • • • is not. The! Town has recommended inclusion of this project in NCDOT's 1985 TIP as a first priority project, but NCDOT has yet to decide whether to adopt the Town's recommendation. Until improvement Of U.S. 15-501 between the By-Pass and the Chatham County line is at least scheduled for construction in the near future, we believe that rezoning this site to .allow urban intensities is premature. _ • We recommend tht. the Chapel Hill TOwn Council and the Orange County Board of Commissioners deny this application for rezoning as premature and recommend.! . that a planned development request would be more suitable for he site, given its size, location, and available services. _ . The recommendation of the Chapel Hill Planning Board follows: . A RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING DENIAL OF A REZONING APPLICATION IN THE JOINT PLANNING AREA (.85-R- ) BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill, that it . hereby recommends that the Orange County Board of Commissioners deny the application for a Zoning Map Amendment to rezone appproximately, 80 acres of the Partin property, identified as Chapel Hill Township Tax Map 128, Block B, part of Lot 20, from R-1 to R-4. This recommendation is based on the finding that • development of the site to urban intensities is premature because of a) the site's lack of water and gravity-flow sewer service necessary to serve development of the site to urban intensities; b) the inadJquacy of the existing U.S. 15-501 roadway to handle the traffic generated by development of the site to urban intensities; c) the lack of facilities necessary to ensure adequate fire • protection to an urban-type development of the site; d) the . lack of facilities necessary to ensure that the recreational needs of an urban-type development of the site are • met; • e) the unliklihood that the requisites for urban development noted above will be available to the site in the foreseeable future; and • • • •