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17 Attachment 2. Excerpts of the approved minutes from the November 21, 2016 Quarterly Public Hearing are contained within Attachment 4. During the hearing, concerns were expressed by several property owners who live adjacent to/near four parcels of property owned by Efland Real Property LLC that staff had recommended be rezoned General Commercial (GC-4). The Board voted to approve the rezoning on 11 of the subject properties, deferring action on the aforementioned Efland Real Property, LLC properties until a future meeting, and directed staff to meet with adjacent property owners to discuss the project in greater detail. Staff met with local residents on December 14, 2016 and January 11, 2017 to review the proposal, discuss development opportunities and constraints on the four properties, review staff's recommendation on the rezoning of the parcels, and provide detail on the County's planning vision for the area in general. Staff believes the majority of the residents who attended the meetings, most primarily residing within the Ashwick neighborhood, were made comfortable with staff's recommendation. Staff is still recommending the parcels in question be rezoned to General Commercial (GC-4) consistent with staff comments at the Quarterly Public Hearing. A summary of staff's recommendation, including maps of the four parcels, is contained within Attachment 3. Planning Director's Recommendation: The Planning Director recommends approval of the Statement of Consistency, indicating the amendments are reasonable and in the public interest, contained in Attachment 5 and proposed zoning atlas amendment package contained in Attachment 6 for the four parcels of property owned by Efland Real Property, LLC. As a reminder, at its November 2, 2016 meeting, the Planning Board voted unanimously to recommend approval of the proposed rezoning as detailed herein and reported at the Quarterly Public Hearing. Michael Harvey, Planner Ill, said for the BOCC to rely on the replacement pages at their places. He reviewed the background information, and showed slides of the four parcels of land. PUBLIC COMMENT: Kim Griffin said he is a realtor. He said there are four tracts here, and in order to market the adjacent property for residential there should be some amenities in the neighborhood nearby. He said the Planning Board's recommendation would be the right thing to do, and he is supportive of it. Kim Gush said she is a resident of the Ashwick Community, and she appreciated the planning staff coming out to explain all of this to the residents. She said something about this proposal is still a concern for her: 75% of these properties are currently residential, with the exception of these four tracts that will cause the surrounding areas to be zoned commercial. She said this change will affect their property values and quality of life. Rob Gray echoed Kim Gush's comments, and noted there are concerns in the Ashwick Community about the commercial re-zonings of these four tracts of land. He said the Planning Department did a great job of explaining the issues, but the residents still see no benefit of changing these parcels over to general commercial. Commissioner McKee asked if the proposed zoning is no more intense than the two parcels that are currently EC-5 and general commercial on the larger one. Michael Harvey said the larger parcel is split zoned existing industrial. He said the first consideration was to expand existing industrial to cover the whole property, but this was deemed to not be the best use of the property, given the surrounding land uses. He said