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Approved 9/7/2016 <br />10 <br />Craig Benedict: Once we’ve gone through all of them I can give you the ones that we can answer now. 486 <br /> 487 <br />Lydia Wegman: Does anyone else from the public want to speak this evening? 488 <br /> 489 <br />Tony Blake: I have some more questions… Who is driving the rezoning here? Is this a joint effort by Hillsborough 490 <br />and the County? 491 <br /> 492 <br />Perdita Holtz: The Land Use plan is a joint Hillsborough-Orange County plan. 493 <br /> 494 <br />Tony Blake: But there’s no specific property owner that’s saying, I want this re-zoning? 495 <br /> 496 <br />Perdita Holtz: Right, this is a County initiated rezoning. 497 <br /> 498 <br />Tony Blake: And Brantley doesn’t have anybody in the hopper for development or anything like that? 499 <br /> 500 <br />Perdita Holtz: We have been talking about rezoning these parcels for many months. As you know this isn’t 501 <br />something that just happens in a month in Orange County. And I do believe that once people found out that land is 502 <br />available and the County might be interested that that has generated interest among people. And people are going 503 <br />out and seeing what’s possible. 504 <br /> 505 <br />Tony Blake: I agree, I just wanted to clear the air and make sure there wasn’t a horse or a cart that was out of place 506 <br />here. I just wanted to make sure that we fully understood from the Planning Board perspective. 507 <br /> 508 <br />Perdita Holtz: Our Economic Development staff has interest in marketing this property. 509 <br /> 510 <br />Franklin Garland: It’s a really odd place.. Like, why this? I can’t understand it. I’m just curious what initiated this 511 <br />particular parcel? 512 <br /> 513 <br />Tony Blake: Well I spoke to Steve Brantley about this sort of thing a year or two ago, back when the tax was put in 514 <br />for economic development and asked him what were the attractive places, and he mentioned these places, a while 515 <br />ago. I just wanted to make sure that my understanding hadn’t changed. 516 <br /> 517 <br />Chris Cole: So no one has expressed interest in having these rezoned, outside the County? Has anyone expressed 518 <br />an interest in having these rezoned outside the County staff? 519 <br /> 520 <br />Perdita Holtz: Not that I’m aware of. 521 <br /> 522 <br />Lisa Stuckey: I have a question. Would you take the little light and show us where the Hillsborough EDD is, and it’s 523 <br />my understanding it’s been there since at least the early 80’s. I mean this is not a new initiative, this is something 524 <br />that’s been designated for a while. 525 <br /> 526 <br />Perdita Holtz: The Hillsborough EDD, it’s kind of a scattered thing. It’s not as cohesive as the other two that are all 527 <br />contiguous but it’s along Old 86 here, it’s all the purple lands. Waterstone used to be County EDD land, and then 528 <br />Hillsborough annexed it so now it’s part of Hillsborough and it’s shown as gray. And then there’s some parcels up 529 <br />here near the Wal-Mart, and there’s a couple parcels here zoned EDH2 and then also along New 86, in the vicinity 530 <br />of Waterstone. 531 <br /> 532 <br />Lisa Stuckey: So since at least 1994 this has been clearly identified as economic development land, prior to that it 533 <br />was Commercial Transition. 534 <br /> 535 <br />Perdita Holtz: Yes, there have been no changes in the boundaries of the EDDs. 536 <br /> 537 <br />Lisa Stuckey: So if people had investigated they would have known that Hillsborough and the County have been 538 <br />envisioning this land for economic development sometime in the future. 539