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L ' --- ORANGE C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date FEBRUARY 25, 1991 Action Agenda Item # C. 2. a. SUBJECT: CP-1-91 : ROBERT AYERS AND HAROLD HARRIS DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING _X—Yes No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Application Materials Dave Stancil, Extension 2590 Staff Analysis Site Map TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel Hill - 967-9251 PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on a proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Plan (Land Use Element) submitted by Robert Ayers/Harold Harris . BACKGROUND: The property proposed for amendment lies in Hillsborough Township, south of the Interstate 40/Old Chapel Hill-Hillsborough Road interchange. The property contains 32 .76 acres, has a 60-foot access lot to Old Chapel Hill-Hillsborough Drive (Old 86) , and 2200 feet of frontage on the western right-of-way of Interstate 40 . The property is referenced as Lot 13B, Block B of Hillsborough Township Tax Map 49 . The property and surrounding areas are currently designated Rural Residential on the Land Use Element of the Plan. The proposed amendment would create a new free-standing Commercial Transition Activity Node and Ten Year Transition area on this site. The stated purpose of the request is to allow the applicants to make application for an office park. RECOMMENDATION: Planning Department staff recommends that the applicants be permitted to withdraw their application pending completion of related work by the Planning Board/Economic Development Commission Work Group, the Hillsborough/Orange County Cooperative Planning efforts, and the County's ten-year update of the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. If the applicants opt not to withdraw their request pending completion of the above, staff recommends denial of the proposed amendment.