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11 t Commissioner Jacobs said that a couple of the issues that came up with discussions with 2 Hillsborough was (1) limiting the floor area of big box retail, and (2) limiting or eliminating drive-in 3 windows for air quality reasons. Also, he asked Craig Benedict that clear-cutting be covered in the 4 ordinance. 5 Barry Katz asked if Craig Benedict could identify a 650-acre parcel in the County. Craig 6 Benedict said that 6.6 million square feet is a build-out scenario and would not come online in 10, 7 15, ar even 20 years. The new South Point Mall in Durham is about 1.2 million square feet. s Barry Katz made reference to maintaining the character of Hillsborough and asked haw 9 that would be accomplished by putting development at this site. Craig Benedict said that by t0 focusing traffic to this area instead of traveling through the center of Hillsborough, this would be 11 the appropriate place for development. 12 Public Comment 13 Scott Radway asked about the proposed EDD development chart that has the 14 designations which are O-OF (office and office flex), O-MDR (office and medium density is residential), and the last one for mixed use. He asked if it is intended to adopt as ordinance the 15 categories with uses when this comes back to the County Commissioners. He asked where this 17 fits within the continuing work of the EDD task force between now and when the moratorium ends. 18 Craig Benedict said that these are categories that are not assigned to any of the 19 properties at this time. These categories have not been assigned to any properties. The focus of 20 the work on A-1 and A-2 will be in this area. 2t A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Carey to 22 accept the staff and public input into the public hearing record, and to refer item C1 b to the 23 Planning Board for a recommendation to be returned to the Board of County Commissioners no 24 sooner than January 1$, 2001. 25 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 26 27 C. Zoning Of parcels near the intersection of I-85/NC86 to "Limited Office." These zs parcels were shown as 3a and 3b on the June 6, 2000 moratoria map including approximately 77 acres. These parcels can continue their present activity 3o pursuant to existing zoning codes if presently developed. If the site is 31 undeveloped or previously noted site is to be redeveloped, then the parcel would 32 be developed consistent with Limited Office district or request rezoning through a 33 special use rezoning and pernnit process. These parcels would also be removed 34 from the moratoria. 3s Barry Katz made reference to South Point Mall in Durham and the exit ramps on I-40 and .i6 asked if there are any plans for I-40 or NC $5 to sustain a reasonable flow of trafFic to this 37 development and what plan they would need to augment this future development. 38 Craig Benedict said that it was agreed at the Commissioners' retreat that the EDD task 39 force would evolve into a task force with a transportation emphasis at the end of the land use 4o issues. The task farce would focus on the issues raised above by Barry Katz. The task force will 41 take a look at aver 40 intersections and come up with a priority package by late summer 2001 and 42 submit it to the MPO by fall 2001. 43 44 Public Comment 45 Lawson Brawn, attorney from Alamance County, spoke representing Chandler Concrete 46 Company, which is located in area 3A. The Chandler Concrete site is a 5.8-acre tract of land 47 located between SR1710 and the railroad tracks. The easternmost two acres of this site are not 4s developed. Chandler Concrete Campariy has been in operation since 1973. He feels it is 49 important to note how this site is situated on Highway 10. The building was expanded to a two- 3o story building just a year ago. He asked that this site not be included in the EDD. If Mr. S1 Chandler's property is included in this designation it will became a nonconforming use. He does