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Approved 12/3/14 <br />3 <br /> 108 <br />Craig Benedict: Farming will continue to be exempt from zoning law. 109 <br /> 110 <br />Lydia Wegman: The rural enterprise item, is this agricultural support enterprises already in the UDO? 111 <br /> 112 <br />Craig Benedict: It is in the UDO for areas in the rural part of the County outside the rural buffer. There is dialogue 113 <br />with Chapel Hill and Carrboro about any uses such as ag support enterprises being allowed in the rural buffer. There 114 <br />needs to be joint approval. 115 <br /> 116 <br />Lydia Wegman: Will that come to the Planning Board? 117 <br /> 118 <br />Craig Benedict: It has been to the Planning Board already as far as the abridged list of uses for the rural buffer. If 119 <br />Chapel Hill or Carrboro suggest a shorter list, we will bring it back to this Board. 120 <br /> 121 <br />Lydia Wegman: Is there a way to get more information in writing about the list and what is being considered? 122 <br /> 123 <br />Perdita Holtz: It is on the February 2014 quarterly public hearing materials, the one about the rural buffer. 124 <br /> 125 <br />Tony Blake: The new zoning you are talking about, what specific areas? Would it be the Efland area and the Eno 126 <br />area? 127 <br /> 128 <br />Craig Benedict: Our economic development zones. There are areas around Hillsborough and the 129 <br />Efland/Buckhorn/Mebane corridor. 130 <br /> 131 <br />Paul Guthrie: Do you see this as a way to begin to bank potential sites that are quick to move or as a classification to 132 <br />ease individual requests? 133 <br /> 134 <br />Craig Benedict: Both. You do want to ease the development process but the first part of your question was if there 135 <br />are sites that would have a better retailability, you do need to preserve those sites for retail. 136 <br /> 137 <br />Tony Blake: I have been reading about form based codes and zoning. This sounds like you are leading up to that. 138 <br /> 139 <br />Craig Benedict: It is more of a mixed use with parameters of development. 140 <br /> 141 <br />Tony Blake: I would love to hear from Steve Brantley. To come and talk to us and give an overview. 142 <br /> 143 <br />Lisa Stuckey: When I came, we were talking about the implementation bridge. Have most of those things been 144 <br />ticked off or no longer relevant? 145 <br /> 146 <br />Tony Blake: Transportation, not so much. 147 <br /> 148 <br />Craig Benedict: There are still items that need to be implemented and are step by step like the Efland Mebane Small 149 <br />Area Plan. 150 <br /> 151 <br />Lisa Stuckey: This was a document that came out of the UDO process. Things they didn’t address. 152 <br /> 153 <br />Craig Benedict: We called it the bucket list. You can’t address all these things at once. 154 <br /> 155 <br />Perdita Holtz: The easy stuff has been done and now we have moved into the hard stuff like the public hearing 156 <br />process changes. 157 <br /> 158 <br />Lisa Stuckey: Sometimes things become irrelevant and sometimes things get forgotten. 159 <br /> 160