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MINUTES 1 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 2 NOVEMBER 7, 2012 3 REGULAR MEETING 4 5 6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Larry Wright (Chair), At-Large, Cedar Grove Township; Peter Hallenbeck (Vice-chair), Cheeks 7 Township Representative; Maxecine Mitchell, At-Large Bingham Township; Alan Campbell, Cedar Grove Township 8 Representative; Buddy Hartley, Little River Township Representative; Rachel Hawkins, Hillsborough Township 9 Representative; Dawn Brezina, Eno Township Representative; Tony Blake, Bingham Township Representative; 10 Andrea Rohrbacher, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Lisa Stuckey, Chapel Hill Township Representative; 11 12 MEMBERS ABSENT: Johnny Randall, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; 13 14 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Glenn Bowles, 15 Planner II; Perdita Holtz; Special Projects Coordinator; Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor; Tina Love, 16 Administrative Assistant II 17 18 OTHERS PRESENT: Edward Yahner, Pat Yahner, Timothy McAvinney, Tom Heffner 19 20 HANDOUTS GIVEN AT MEETING: PowerPoint Presentation for Item 7; Email from NCDOT District Engineer 21 22 23 Agenda Item 7: Major Subdivision Concept Plan - To review and make a decision on a major subdivision 24 concept plan application (Annandale at Creek Wood) Located off Whitfield Road. 25 Presenter: Glenn Bowles, Planner II 26 27 Glenn Bowles: Reviewed abstract. 28 29 Michael Harvey: Reviewed Development Process, Schedule and Action on page 20. 30 31 Tom Heffner: I am Tom Heffner of Heffner Properties. I have been in the development business in Orange County 32 for about 30 years. I developed the Northfield of Creekwood and Woodkirk Subdivision on Highway 86. This 33 property belongs to an LLC, the heirs of Charles Johnston. . The Johnston Family has owned property in this area 34 since the 1750s. They were one of the original in Orange County to receive a land grant from King George II in 1752. 35 I was honored to develop Creekwood property and in conjunction we were able to set aside Johnston Mill Nature 36 Preserve with Triangle Land Conservancy. Some of the family had a desire to keep their land in Orange County. 37 Our goal, as developers, was to find a plan that made good use of the property as a residential development but also 38 was sensitive to the creek and existing wild life. We feel we have done that with the flexible concept plan we have 39 submitted. Drainage is an issue so I have Tim McAvinney from Earth Centric Engineers in Mebane. There are not 40 trails at this time but based on discussions there is some interest in developing the trail system. We have also 41 provided an internal easement. Earth Centric met with Chuck Edwards (District Engineer) in looking at those street 42 locations and DOT advised us that the locations are acceptable to them. We would like to have a lower posted 43 speed limit. 44 45 Alan Campbell: Do you have a homeowner’s association? 46 47 Tom Heffner: Yes. The HOA will be I charge of the open space. 48 49 Lisa Stuckey: It sounded like the folks advocating for a conventional plan were worried about septic field sufficiency. 50 51 Tom Heffner: That was the health department. The area set aside for the septic field is the same in both fields. The 52 health department’s view was the bigger the lot, the better. 53 54 Tony Blake: What is the typical size regarding bedrooms? 55 Excerpt of approved November 7, 2012 Planning Board minutes Attachment 5 47