Agenda - 01-23-2018 5-a - Zoning Atlas Amendment - Conditional Zoning – Master Plan Development Conditional Zoning District (MPD-CZ) Settlers Point

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-I 268 b. The recommended condition was too limiting, specifically there was no 269 wiggle room to allow for other alternative energy vehicles to have access 270 to facilities for fueling purposes within the project. 271 The applicant indicated a preference not to have natural gas or other 272 similar fueling points due to the potential safety hazards and liability issues 273 for tenants. 274 c. With respect to excluding hotels from the condition, the argument was the 275 District as a whole should provide for a minimum of electric charging 276 stations. The belief was that a hotel would provide their own to serve the 277 needs of its clients. 278 Further, Board members indicated they wanted the spaces spread 279 throughout the project and not clustered in one specific area serving a 280 single user. The concern was a hotel use would dominate /monopolize 281 electric charging stations limiting their use by other travelers accessing 282 District 2. 283 d. There were concerns expressed on how such a condition would be 284 monitored /enforced by the staff. 285 The applicant indicated they could agree to a condition requiring 1% of the total 286 parking spaces required for District 2 be reserved /developed to promote vehicle 287 charging station(s). This reservation would be exclusive of any hotel client locating 288 within the district. 289 The Board voted 6 to 5 to recommend approval of the condition as agreed to by the 290 applicant. 291 A local resident expressed concern over the approval of the project indicating it was not 292 appropriate for the area given adjoining rural single - family residential developments and 293 that there was not sufficient detail on what land uses would be developed if the project 294 was approved. The individual expressed concern(s) existing traffic congestion would be 295 exacerbated and that the project would allow for the development of undesirable land 296 uses including a truck stop. This individual suggested the County model this project 297 after Timberline in Chapel Hill as a reasonable development adjacent to an interstate 298 surrounded by residential land uses. 299 Staff informed the Board the Timberline project was, in essence, a strip mall with 300 several outparcels housing professional offices, a movie theater, banks, and 301 restaurants. Development occupied approximately 60% of the land area associated 302 with the project and there was little land use buffers /landscaping present within the 303 project. Settlers Point had mandatory open space requirements, had a much more 304 restrictive limit on the total allowable floor area that could be developed within either 305 district, and had mandatory 100 ft. perimeter buffers separating adjacent land uses. 306 From staff's standpoint this project, as currently presented, offered the preservation of 307 more open space and preservation of the natural environment that the suggested 308 model. 3o9 The Planning Board voted unanimously to recommend approval of the project with the 310 imposition of several conditions included within the resolution of approval.