Planning Board - 081920 Agenda Packet

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D R A F T Adam Beeman: I am just wondering if we can just get past this first amendment, a lot of the problems and questions 501 would be addressed and answered in Mr. Harvey’s presentation over the rezoning of the MPZ-CD. We’re going 502 through stuff that they will get answers to once Mr. Harvey give his presentation. I don’t know if there is a way we 503 can vote on this first amendment and move along but a lot of the stuff will be answered once we get to that next504 presentation, I believe. 505 506 Gerald Scarlett: I will speak specifically to Item 8 let it be known that I am not in favor of any of this. I have been here 507 for 65 years; my family has been here for over 200 years. When you look at your map, West Scarlett Mountain Road508 is my driveway. It’s a half a mile long and I personally maintain all of it, all the expense and all the work. What I 509 would ask of the Board is that you recommend to the County Commissioners that Item 8 not be approved. I’d like for 510 all this to go away but I’ve been fighting this stuff since Interstate 40 took part of my property so I know how some of 511 it will turn out but we do not need to approve Item 8. If you look at that map, the change that you are making, I know 512 it’s not yet a rezoning, seems to be just because the Town wanted to do it and we want to match that. I think we 513 need to make everything as hard as possible for anybody to do anything in that section other than the R1. Part of my 514 reasoning for that is if you look at my driveway, that is the beginning of the Rural Buffer. My property is in the Rural 515 Buffer. There are a lot of things I cannot do with my property that people on Davis Road can because I’m in the 516 Rural Buffer. Some of my tax money has been spend over the last couple of years to put up signs that say ‘Entering 517 the Rural Buffer’. Some people love it, I personally don’t, it rubs my nose in the fact that I can’t do something on the 518 piece of property my family has been paying taxes on for 150 – 200 years but none of that matters at this point but if 519 you look at that map and you look at my driveway, it does not make sense to me that you have a Rural Buffer that 520 limits the use of property so that it has to stay the very rural, more rural than the rest of the County but I would have 521 to pass businesses and retail potential down the road to get off of my Rural Buffer property. If we are going to make 522 development, there has got to be a buffer between a Rural Buffer and the beginning of the Retail and Industrial. It 523 makes no sense to make a hard line to the Rural Buffer, don’t cut your trees, you can’t divide your property, right over 524 to here’s an industrial zone. If you are going to this and recommend to the County Commissioners that they do this 525 and approve this then you need to do away with the Rural Buffer. That needs to be forgotten about so I guess if 526 there is a question in all that, is there any intention of providing any kind of buffer between my driveway and the 527 changes that this might allow and the zoning that it might allow down the road and I know that the answer to that is 528 no. So, I would beg you please recommend to the Commissioners at least for Item 8 and of course, I think so for the 529 rest of it too, recommend to them that they do not change that. Let’s not make it easy for people to come in and ruin 530 what we’ve done here. Thank you.531 532 Sarah Shore: My name is Sarah Shore. Randy, I just want to let you know that my land backs up to this so we are 533 directly affected by this amendment. This proposed amendment that was snuck in, that was completely different for 534 Settler’s Point, is really upsetting because I will have a warehouse in my backyard, about a 100 yards away from my 535 children’s playset. I moved here to keep my kid’s childhood simple with the woods and being able to run around and 536 have fun and you are now telling me there will be a semi going past my backyard because of the is one little parcel of 537 land and I understand that we can’t fight it all but whoever said it earlier, fighting and winning this battle and losing 538 the war is looking like it might be but please do not put a semi in my backyard and this warehouse. One thing Randy, 539 this is my backyard, I don’t live down Davis Road, I live on Old 86. Thank you.540 541 Cedar Eagle: Hello, I have a question regarding the zoning basically. Can the constituents create a petition to keep 542 the zoning as Rural and Residential and if so, how many signature would be required on a petition like that before the 543 Town would have to address it? That’s my only question.544 545 Craig Benedict: There is a public hearing process that is part of these amendments. You are welcome to attend and 546 bring signatures or petitions if you would like to that public hearing and that will be part of the consideration for the 547 amendment so that’s the process within the laws of the County that are put up in the Unified Development 548 Ordinance.549 550 Cedar Eagle: Ok but there’s no set amount of signatures that is necessary. You can’t give me any kind of numerical 551 data to show how much outcry we would need to make it strongly … I mean I understand the County Commissioners 552 what this approved but pretty much everything I’ve heard from every resident wants it to keep agricultural and 553 residentially zoned so if had a public outcry of thousands of petitions saying they don’t want it how much impact 554 would that have?555 556 12