Agenda - 02-06-2018 8-a - Minutes

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in 1 from RB (Rural Buffer) to Home Park Conditional Zoning District (HP -CZD). If approved, 2 Orange County staff will pursue the hiring of a professional consultant/design firm to submit the 3 required conditional zoning district application. 4 Craig Benedict, Planning Director, presented this item: 5 6 BACKGROUND: 7 For many years, there has been interest in addressing the vulnerability of residents living in 8 manufactured home parks in Orange County. The Orange County Board of 9 Commissioners allocated $1 million in the FY2015 -16 budget process to address preservation 10 and retention of manufactured homes parks and /or to assist in the acquisition of property and 11 land banking for future residential development as an affordable housing alternative. During the 12 FY2016 -17 budget process, the BOCC allocated another $1 million to the land banking 13 program. 14 15 Following the establishment of the land banking program and designated funding from Orange 16 County, local housing partners began to discuss and evaluate the opportunities and obstacles 17 in redeveloping an existing manufactured home park or developing new affordable housing 18 addressing the needs of park residents at risk. Orange County Habitat for Humanity invited 19 interested, local individuals to form an informal ad hoc committee that became known as the 20 Mobile Home Park Work Group. At the November 20, 2017 BOCC Meeting, the Mobile Home 21 Park Work Group presented the Mobile Home Park Survey Report and mobile home park 22 recommendations to the Board. These items both identified the need of providing affordable 23 housing options in the Towns and to locating displaced manufactured home park residents 24 close to their existing communities in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Sherrill Hampton, Orange 25 County Housing Director, is leading this effort. 26 27 More recently, due to the potential redevelopment of existing parks in the Town of Chapel Hill, 28 Orange County has explored the opportunity to locate displaced manufactured home park 29 residents on County owned property near the town. One site identified for a future 30 manufactured 31 home park is the Millhouse Road Park site which is north of Eubanks Road and south of NC 86. 32 Currently, this 78 -acre site (comprised of two parcels) is zoned RB (Rural Buffer). 33 34 In order to accommodate a future manufactured home park on this site, the following options 35 are available: 36 1. Approval of a subdivision creating individual lots allowing for the placement of 37 structures on each separate parcel of property, OR 38 2. Rezoning of the property, or portion thereof, to Home Park Conditional Zoning District 39 (HP -CZD) to allow for the development of a home park which would not have 40 separate parcels, but `spaces'. 41 42 Orange County has identified interest in pursuing a rezoning of this property to accommodate a 43 temporary home park for displaced residents. The property is bound by density limitations 44 detailed within the Joint Planning Land Use Plan limiting residential development to one 45 dwelling unit per two acres of property. Orange County will pursue the recombination of the two 46 parcels which make up the 78 -acre Millhouse Road Park site. Depending on the number of 47 spaces sought to be created through the rezoning, the overall acreage necessary to achieve 48 this unit count through `clustering' will be determined. For rough estimation purposes, only eight 49 to ten acres of the entire site will be used for the temporary home park. Attachment 1 contains 50 additional information regarding the proposed amendment.