Agenda - 03-10-20; 8-a - Minutes

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5 1 2. The Cedar Grove County Park, PIN 9858-84-9350 (P-2); 2 3. The Caldwell Fire Department, PIN 9898-57-4171 (P-3); 3 4. The future County Northeast Park, PIN 9887-52-0801 (P-4); 4 5. The Walnut Grove County Solid Waste facility, PIN 9867-41-9070 (P-5); 5 6. The Eno Fire Department, PIN 9896-80-8705 (P-6); 6 7. Property off of Buckhorn Road, PIN 9834-28-9281 (P-7); 7 8. The County's soccer field complex off of West Ten Road, PIN 9834-28-9281 (P-8); 8 9. The County's Blackwood park property off of NC Highway 86, PIN 9872-55-7302 (P-9); 9 10. The County's Millhouse Road park property, PIN 9871-51-9160 (P-10); 10 11. An OWASA site, PIN 9830-25-2373 (P-11); 11 12. The American Stone Quarry site off of NC Highway 54, PIN 9759-54-4146 (P-12); 12 13. White Cross Volunteer Fire Department, PIN 9738-50-6758 (P-13); 13 14. 2200 Mangum Court, PIN 9797-32-6626 (P-14); 14 15. 3820 Cedar Run Court, PIN 9846-65-1414 (P-15). 15 16 Inclusion of a parcel on the MTP does not exempt telecommunication facilities from complying 17 with applicable development standards as prescribed within Section 5.10 of the LIDO. A 18 synopsis of existing allowances/requirements is contained within Attachment 2. 19 As previously indicated, staff has received a request from Mr. Greg Bohlen, the property owner, 20 to include 7203 Union Grove Church Road on the MTP. The property, further identified utilizing 21 Orange County Parcel Identification Number (PIN) 9860-28-9935, is an approximately 10 acre 22 parcel of property zoned Rural Buffer (RB) University Lake Protected Watershed Protection 23 Overlay District. 24 25 Please refer to Attachment 3 for a copy of the legal advertisement for this hearing and 26 Attachment 4 for a map of the property. 27 28 This is an area where existing telecommunication services (i.e. cell phone, emergency 29 communications, broadband, etc.) have been found to be deficient. 30 31 Planning Director's Recommendation: The Director has determined there is a need for 32 additional telecommunication infrastructure/services in this area to address the need for reliable 33 cellular service, increase the effectiveness of the existing emergency communications network 34 and increasing opportunities for broadband services. Further, the Director has found the 35 request consistent with several provisions of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, notably: 36 37 • Land Use Overarching Goal: Coordination of the amount, location, pattern and 38 designation of future land uses, with availability of County services and facilities 39 sufficient to meet the needs of Orange County's population and economy consistent 40 with other Comprehensive Plan element goals and objectives. 41 • Services and Community Facilities Goal 7: Efficient and effective public safety 42 including, police, fire, telecommunications, emergency services, and animal services. 43 • Objective PS-T-6: Develop a mechanism for cooperation with telecommunication 44 facilities stakeholders regarding the siting and design of towers. 45 • Objective PS-T-7: Manage the number of future wireless telecommunication facilities by 46 identifying preferred locations capable of accommodating service Countywide. 47 • Objective PS-T-8: Encourage the expansion of affordable, high-speed Internet access, 48 fiber-optic lines, and other high-speed communication networks to rural and 49 underserved areas.