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Approved 11/5/14 2 will make every effort to uphold a vision of responsive governance and quality public services 55 during our deliberations, decisions, and recommendations. 56 57 58 AGENDA ITEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS 59 60 61 AGENDA ITEM 7: 2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE MAP AMENDMENT: To make a recommendation 62 to the BOCC on government-initiated amendments to the Future Land Use Map of the 63 Comprehensive Plan to assign County land use classifications to approximately 500 acres of 64 property that are to be removed for the Town of Hillsborough Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) 65 located generally near the Eno River between US 70W and I-85/I-40 in Cheeks and 66 Hillsborough Townships. This item was heard at the September 8, 2014 quarterly public 67 hearing. 68 Presenter: Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor 69 70 Tom Altieri reviewed abstract and presented a PowerPoint Presentation. 71 72 Pete Hallenbeck: Does anyone have any questions for Tom? 73 74 Tony Blake: I recall a conversation from the BOCC that the underlying concern seemed to be that we were 75 repurposing land use for agricultural that might be better zoned rural residential or vice a versa and that there might 76 be some permitted uses on a farm or something that would be disallowed if it was rural residential or again vice a 77 versa and I think that it’s key that the land use match the zoning and so that is my question, does the land use match 78 the zoning in this? 79 80 Tom Altieri: You’re correct, it does need to and in this case, in the Comprehensive Plan I think you’ve probably seen 81 it, a few before in some previous amendments. There’s what I call a matrix, it’s located in the appendices at the back 82 of the land use plan and it shows the relationship between the Future Land Use Map categories down one column 83 and then the rows across are all of the applicable zoning districts. You’re right for the Agricultural Residential Land 84 Use category the only applicable zoning is Agricultural Residential. So that’s exactly right. 85 86 Tony Blake: I believe and again I’m reading between the lines from the County Commissioners’ comments, I believe 87 that going around in some of their heads and I think Commissioner Dorosin in particular was this discussion about 88 the solar farm in the north and what was permitted and what wasn’t permitted and there might be something that was 89 permitted like a solar farm on a farm as opposed to in a rural residential. 90 91 Michael Harvey: I want to clarify a solar facility is permitted with a issuance of a Special Use Permit in the Rural 92 Buffer and Agricultural Residential and Rural Residential land use categories currently. 93 94 Tony Blake: There’s not one that doesn’t need a SUP? 95 96 Michael Harvey: There are three categories of solar array development. There’s under 20,000 which accessory as a 97 Class B and Class A. Class B and Class A would be allowed in the three zoning districts so there is no distinction 98 from that standpoint. 99 100 Tony Blake: I was thinking of some of the farms that have put up solar facilities for use on their farms for their own 101 purposes. 102 103 Lisa Stuckey: My impression is that AR is less restrictive and you can do more things in there by right, is that 104 correct? In general. 105 106 Tom Altieri: Some of the questions are more related to the zoning side. However, Tony does make a good point 107 which is once the Board has recommended Agricultural Residential on the Future Land Use Map side the only 108