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Planning Board had considered the Class A Special Use Permit. Rather than con- sidering it as a Planned Development-Office Institutional, the Planning Board treated the request as a Class A Special Use Permit in a Rural Residential area under provisions of Article 4 of the Zoning Ordinance. Such an interpretation would bring it within the same type of uses as substations, utility stations, switching stations, telephone exchanges and water and sewer treatment plants. Mr. Collins described the property and its location, Mr. Collins continued, saying, the Planning Board recommended approval as a Class A Special Use Permit in a Rural Residential area because all the Zoning Ordinance requirements had been met. Mr. Collins added that the Planning Board also considered the request as a Class A Special Use Permit for a Planned Development-Office Institutional, as advertised and requested, and "found that it met all the requirements with the exception that it did not comply with the Land Use Plan." Mr. Collins said Staff's recommendation to the Planning Board was that it could not consider this request under the provisions of Article 4 of the Zoning Ordinance and that if it did so readvertisement was necessary. Mr. Collins cited the precedent of the Commissioners' granting the PD-OI classification and use to Duke Power Company for its site on Homestead Road in Chapel Hill, The Planning Board recommended against changing the Land Use Plan. Commissioner Whitted clarified the issue saying this request was for a Class A Special Use Permit for a PD-OI and was advertised as such and the public hearing was held on that request, not for a Class A Special Use Permit as provided for under Article 4 of the Zoning Ordinance, in a Rural Residential District. The County Attorney said, in his opinion, that the use Piedmont Power plans for that area is more intensive than just "substations" and that there would be more traffic generated than for a substation. Commissioner Willhoit moved, seconded by Commissioner Walker, to close the Public Hearing on the Class A Special Use Permit by Piedmont Power Company for a PD-OI on NC 86 in Hillsborough. Vote: Ayes, 5; noes, O, E-2 LAND USE PLAN AMENDMENT--PIEDMONT POWER Commissioner Whitted asked Mr. Cannity, Planning Staff, to point out on the map how the Land Use Plan would be changed if the request for Commercial Transition Activity Node were granted. Mr. Collins replied, while demonstrating on the map, that the node was presently located in a half mile radius circle at the intersection of I-85 and NC 86. The request would result in the node having