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• • Use Permit for a general aviation airport. All Planning Staff findings, recommendations, and conditions are attached to these minutes,/ Ms. Susan Smith, Planning Staff, made the presentation on the Amendment to the Land Use Plan requested by Buck Mountain. Me. Smith said the location of the Midway Airpark is nine miles west of Carrboro on Highway 54 and the land is presently designated agricultural residential and is partly located in a neighborhood activity node. This rural neighborhood activity node l'was not intended to allow development of the size and scope of Midway Airpark." She said for the change in designation from rural neighborhood to transition activity node which would be required for the Airpark, certain criteria have to be met: 1) located in an area in transition fLoA rural to urban; 2) efficiently served ! by public utilities; 3) within five to ten minutes commuting time of urban areas. Ms. Smith said the Midway Airpark does not meet these criteria therefore the Planning Staff recommends the Land Use Plan not be amended for the following reasons: 1) it is at odds with the major concepts of the Land Use Plan which includes the promotion of residential development and commercial endeavors near urban areas; 2) an aim is to preserve the rural farm areas; 3) non-agree- ment of the request with the in-fill policy; 4) the proposed node is a consider- able distance from cities; 5) it is not served by public water and sewer; 6) it is separated from the cities by the University Lake Watershed; 7) the scale of development is ianappropriate for this area; 8) a concern exists about the possibility for spinoff development. Mr. Rick Cannity of the Planning Staff Made the presentation on the requests for Rezoning for the Midway Airpark to Planned Development Office Institutional and as Class A Special Use Permit for a Planned Development Office Institutional. Mr. Cannity told the Boards that a letter from Mr. Bruce Matthews of the 5 Department of Transportation had been inadvertently omitted from the agenda package and that the correct Resolution fiym the Town of Chapel Hill had not been inserted into the agenda; Mr. Cannity passed these documents out to the Boards (those documents are found on pages of this book). Mr. Cannity then proceeded to the findings of fact for this request (please see pages of this book for those findings of fact) . Mr. Cannity then presented the Specific Standards which are to be addressed by the Applicants (see pages of this book for those Standards and findings). Mr. Cannity said the Planning