Agenda - 09-15-20; 5-c - Proposed Amendments to the Town of Hillsborough - OC Central Orange Coordinated Area (COCA) Land Use Plan and to the OC Comp Plan Future Land Use Map (FLUM)

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square feet of the affected area along David Road, which is a mile and a half long, there are 100s of homes, 168 thousands of people who live on Davis and Ode Turner and all of us are going to be effected by this change. Not 169 only from the development itself in parcels one and two but also the proposed change of planning along Davis for 170 that little 12 acre parcel that the RTLP is planning to incorporate as part of their zoning change. That goes to my 171 questions, my questions is if this is a rural neighborhood of farms, legacy businesses and homes, why are we 172 allowing a major corporation come in and annex this piece and make it part of their monstrosity of a development. 173 This is just going to change everything not only in our neighborhood but on the road itself on Old 86 and potentially 174 on Davis Road. That’s the end of my question. Thank you for taking it. 175 176 Richard Wagoner: My question is more of a question than a comment. I was unable to attend the earlier July 177 meeting for the public and my question is about the residential areas right when you come off I-40 onto Old 86. Right 178 now, I think it is in the Neighborhood Mixed Use on one map but on another map, it’s the Economic Development 179 Transition so I am trying to get an idea of what is proposed for that area in the future. My mother-in-law lives when 180 you are coming off 86 on the right hand side, my wife is the property owner along with my mother-in-law so we are 181 trying to find out what is proposed for that area. 182 183 Tom Altieri: The parcels you are inquiring about are to the north of the amendment area that I discussed in my 184 presentation. They are addressed in that Central Orange Joint Land Use Plan as well as the County’s 185 Comprehensive Plan it is located in an area that would have the potential for economic development. The properties 186 there that are residential if zoned for non-residential uses those parcels are allowed to continue to be there to have 187 residential uses. They are what’s called non-conforming uses meaning that it may be a house if it’s rezoned to non-188 residential it’s not within the conforming zoning district but those houses are certainly allowed to stay. We did receive 189 a question at our public information session about would it increase potentially the developers interests in purchasing 190 those houses and the response at that time was that yes it could so it is possible there could be some transitioning 191 there if property owners want to willingly sell their property to developers for non-residential uses in the future. 192 193 Richard Wagoner: There would be no requirement at this time, you could stay there if you wanted to or sell if you 194 wanted to? 195 196 Tom Altieri: Absolutely, that is correct. I know it’s hard to really separate the development proposal from some of the 197 land use amendments that I’ve been discussing but things like buffer requirements around the development to 198 provide buffers between it and adjacent residential uses will certainly be discussed later this evening. 199 200 Richard Wagoner: Ok, thank you. 201 202 Clare Brennan: Hi, Clare Brennan, like one of my neighbors earlier, I also live down Davis Road in the New Hope 203 Springs subdivision. I wanted to specifically talk about that little parcel of land that had the star on it. That’s of 204 concern to me and I think a lot of my neighbors since we live down Davis Road. As I see it, I think this big planned 205 economic development is likely going to happen but I would like to sort of try to get a win out of this somehow and 206 maybe will a battle but lose the war. My position is that we need not be rezoning or annexing that little parcel that 207 had the star on it. I think that was 17 acres that was on the west side of 86 and adjacent to Davis Road. I think there 208 was plans to change that zoning from Rural Residential to an Economic Development Transitional Zone, I am totally 209 opposed to that, and speaking for my neighbors, I think we all are in the subdivision. I also want to step back and 210 remind people that Old 86 is one of 57 scenic byways in the State of North Carolina and appeared on colonial maps 211 of this state dating back to 1770 so we’ve had 250 years of living off of Old 86, families, generations enjoying this 212 rural life so it is really with a lot of dismay and disappointment that we are seeing the plans for this huge rezoning 213 here right at the corner of our neighborhood. I also take a bit of issue with the term RTP Logistics Park. We are at 214 least 30 miles from RTP, surely this is a bit of a misnomer should we maybe consider calling this the Hillsborough 215 Manufacturing District, it’s kind of what we are looking at, right? This is not a RTP associated park in any way shape 216 or form. Also this might go onto the next agenda item but I have a real concern about the PIN 9862-99-8894 that is a 217 warehouse that has an access road off of Davis Road and this is planned to be 300,000 square feet again according 218 to my math that is some sort of building that would be 300 ft. by 1000 ft. right as you turn off of Old 86 onto Davis 219 Road. Quite frankly, that is really unacceptable. We moved out here to this lovely part of Hillsborough and Orange 220 County for the luxury and the privilege of living in the country and that is really just going to totally deface the whole 221 entryway into what is supposed to be our gateway into historic Hillsborough. I also want to mention in this COVID 222 environment, that Davis Road has really become a place that our neighbors cherish. We cycle out there and walk out 223 10