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CAGE COUNTY BOARD OF CCYVISSION S Action Agenda Item: No. 3 Acric i AGE`a; ITe2'l ABSTN C mal' G DATE January 4. 1983 . .,. Subject: Request by iedmont Power Company for Rezoning froth R-1 Rural Residential to Planned Development - Office Institutional and Class A Special Use Permit • Lep Cu r 1 P l anrling Public yes x ri j AttsgirmElt(S) : Plan Tax Map; Application Inf0t.Ar7 Con Marvin Collins and Narrative; Staff Findings; Public Hearing Minutes of 11122/82; Planning Board Phone Nt : 732-8181 Extension 349 Minutes of 12/20/82. PURPOSE.: To consider a recommendation from the Planning Board in regard to a proposed rezoning frgm R-1 Rural Residential to Planned Development - Office Institutional and approval! of a Class A Special Use Permit. NEED: The applicant has requested a PD-OI designation for property located on N.C. Highway 86 alouth of 1-85. An office building to serve customers and a maintenance/ warehouse facility is planned. The 33.92 acre tract is proposed to have access only onto N.C. Highway 86, Traffic figures for that highway in 1981 were approximately 4,100 trips per day. The orange County Health Department has approved th€ lot for on-site sewage disposal, and a well is proposed. The site is wooded and the building is proposed to be set back from the road. The site is also located in the Orange Rural Fire District. IMPACT: The propert}* is located in a Rural Residential area as designated by the Land Use Plan. Fcjr the proposed use to conform to the Land Use Plan, the Harmon Young (H8-4) Commercial Activity Transition Node would need to be extended south along N.C. Highway 86 to encompass the site. The development intensity of the proposal! meets the minimums required for open space; pedestrian/landscape space and dales not exceed the maximum allowed floor area. COMMENDATION: The Planning Department recommends approval of the project with conditions , The Planning Board recommended that the Board of County Commissioners consider Piedmont Poer Company's application as a "Class A" Special Use Permit as indicated on page 4-13 of the Zoning Ordinance. The proposed use was considered to be similJr to public utility stations and substations, switching stations, telephone edchanges, and water and sewer treatment plants. The proposed use would be allowed in the Rural Residential (R-1) district under the special use permit procedure wthout changing the zoning classification. A decision regarding whether or not the proposal would require readvertisement would be left to the County Attorney, I! The PlanninEj Board reviewed the findings required for both the requested PD/OI designation and the findings required for a Class A Special Use Permit for a public utility. ThP Rnarri fnf.nA 1' . ..