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achieve is some setbacks that allow you to preserve the look and <br />feel of a rural landscape. <br />Elio: How do we stand on this? <br />Curtis: Don't like it. Understand what you're trying to do, but <br />believe it creates undue impacts on landowner's use of his land. <br />Would not be able to put a driveway through it. <br />Lee: Not suggesting that you can't do anything in that space. If <br />you need to have an access road that comes off the existing road, <br />then you need to have an access road. Covenants on his land <br />specify a 125 foot setback from Powder Mill Road that they are not <br />allowed to do anything in. They can cut unhealthy trees and they <br />can cut a driveway. The intent of this is not to limit access, but <br />to preserve the viewscape, i.e., that this is a natural space. <br />Curtis: Would a yard or grass be acceptable in this area? <br />Lee: Intent was that it be natural, if pasture OK. <br />Curtis: But if it was rural, wooded land would have to remain that <br />way? Don't like that. <br />Lee: Chances are that if you did a subdivision on your land today, <br />the Planning Board would require a buffer around it. 100 foot was <br />arbitrary, but about the right distance for a good visual screen. <br />Curtis: Seems like if you had to be at least 100 feet from road, <br />that would add to expense of running the road in there. <br />Lee: If you're talking about a single unit, maybe. If you did a <br />subdivision, you would have one cut from the existing road and a <br />road network in your subdivision and all he is trying to say here <br />is that green space around edges of subdivision would be 100 feet. <br />Curtis: Referring to a 19 acre tract of land on south side of Old <br />NC 10 his family owns that is only 200 feet deep. <br />Lee: Would have to word this in such a way that a piece of land's <br />characteristics don't preclude it automatically. <br />Gene: ' Reference to Board of Adjustment and possibility of variance <br />in situations similar to this. <br />Elio: Would such language improve things to indicate that wherever <br />there is a hardship because of the land's characteristics, a <br />variance might be possible? <br />Curtis: Concerned that County make take statement about 100 foot <br />buffer to not allow any development within 100 feet of road. <br />10 <br />