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D R A F T 5 Alan Campbell: Do we need a motion that we approve it? 213 214 Perdita Holtz: It can come back in January or you can instruct us to come up with language and I can email it to 215 everyone. 216 217 Larry Wright: On page 38, item 5, does that imply that they are permissible on residential uses? 218 219 Perdita Holtz: The wording was taken from ECOD to be consistent throughout the UDO. 220 221 Larry Wright: Hillsborough has been around since there was a well in the middle of Churton Street and turned into 222 a very commercial street and they had to make it so the large trucks could not pass through. Highway 70 is of the 223 same nature. We are having a municipality that is not a municipality coming in so what will happen when you have 224 commercial districts around 70 and where would be alternative route for these heavy vehicles which leads you to 225 consider more the pressure of sidewalks. 226 227 Buddy Hartley: The heavy truck traffic should not be there unless they have a delivery. 228 229 Larry Wright: We have two issues before us; the Efland Village Overlay District and the Efland Interstate Overlay 230 District with staff proposals to address items four and five. 231 232 Perdita Holtz: It would be good for direction on how you want to recommend to the BOCC. There needs to be a 233 formal motion for four and a motion on the amendments on Attachment 2. 234 235 Motion from Lisa Stuckey to retain the “ticks” as recommended by the staff. Seconded by Alan Campbell. 236 Vote: Unanimous 237 238 Motion from Alan Campbell to approve this as presented by staff with the further changes to be developed and 239 circulated through email for item five. Seconded by Tony Blake. 240 Vote: Unanimous 241 242 Pete Hallenbeck submitted the following comments for the record: 243 Item 7: 244 Quarterly Public Hearing comments: 245 Chain/franchise business building standards 246 South of the railroad tracks “chain restaurants” are permitted. The Small Area Plan and the Implementation groups in 247 general realized the value of being able to identify a business from it’s signature style of building. They also wanted 248 to take advantage of the proximity to the interstate and have these businesses in order to generate more jobs and tax 249 revenue. There was a desire to have an opportunity for citizen input during the permitting process where minor 250 changes in the building presentation could be proposed. No one had problems with drive throughs. While it is true 251 that this introduces a small subjective component into the permitting process, it was deemed that this was the lessor 252 of two evils where the other option was to blanket permit any and all chain restaurants no matter what the style. 253 254 As I commented during the hearing, there would be no chain restaurants north of the railroad tracks. The rational is 255 as simple as this: Imagine a McDonalds somewhere in downtown Hillsborough, say by King street or across from the 256 Weaver Street Market. 257 258 I suspect the franchise rules are also not a problem for chain restaurants. I would imagine they would prefer to be 259 close to the interstate, not up north of the railroad tracks. 260 261 During the Small Area Planning and the Implementation phase of these proposed UDO changes, the topic of 262 sidewalks seemed to always come down to keeping people from walking on the road. There are many people that 263 walk along US70 day and night. At night, it is very hard to see many of these people as they don’t wear anything 264 reflective. I suspect that any higher density project would increase this potential for this pedestrian traffic, and that 265 9