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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Approved 9/2/2020 ATTACHMENT 3 1 MEETING MINUTES EXCERPT 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 3 AUGUST 5, 2020 4 REGULAR MEETING 5 (Due to current public health concerns, this meeting was held virtually. 6 Members of the Planning Board, staff and public participated remotely) 7 8 9 EXCERPT 10 AGENDA ITEM 8: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE TOWN OF HILLSBOROUGH/ORANGE COUNTY CENTRAL ORANGE 11 COORDINATED AREA (COCA) LAND USE PLAN AND TO THE ORANGE COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 12 FUTURE LAND USE MAP (FLUM) - To review and make a recommendation to the BOCC on County-13 initiated amendments to the COCA and FLUM in the vicinity of the southern portion of the 14 Hillsborough Area Economic Development District. The amendments related to COCA affect 17 15 parcels (in whole or part) encompassing 84 acres. The amendments related to the FLUM affect 20 16 parcels (in whole or part) encompassing 89 acres. The COCA proposed land use category is 17 Suburban Office and the FLUM proposed category is Economic Development. This item is 18 scheduled for BOCC public hearing on September 15, 2020. 19 PRESENTER: Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor 20 21 Tom Altieri reviewed the abstract and proposed changes 22 23 Hunter Spitzer: The first question that I have, no residential zoning will be permitted under this new County Land Use 24 under the Economic Transitionary correct? 25 26 Tom Altieri: As part of these amendments, there is no associated rezoning at this time. The residential structures, 27 the homes that are there now will continue to be conforming, the planning term, because the Rural Residential or R1 28 Zoning District will remain in place. 29 30 Hunter Spitzer: So could these properties potentially be rezoned to say medium or low intensity residential 31 development is my question, are those allowable zonings under this new land use? 32 33 Tom Altieri: Yes 34 35 Hunter Spitzer: I noticed in the Comprehensive Land Use map that there are protected areas identified in green but 36 in the areas selected to be rezoned as Suburban Office, there are no protected areas and I was wondering why not 37 but they are identified as protected in the County Land Use map. I suppose I know why, because we don’t want to 38 restrict development but I was wondering if you could lend anything to that. 39 40 Tom Altieri: It’s really for no particular reason, it’s just a matter of the Town took the initial step in the development of 41 the Joint Land Use Plan and it used the Land Use categories that it already had in its existing plan and it is just not 42 shown on the map in the Joint Land Use Plan. Those areas there certainly exist, I did mention that if or how 43 development occur in those resource protection areas is really handled through our Zoning Ordinance with stream 44 buffers and so forth. I think the resource protections area is really shown on the County’s Future Land Use map as 45 more, let’s just say, a reminder, if you would. That layer that land use category does not have a direct companion-46 zoning district or applicable zoning districts that would be applied in a resource protection area. It’s more or less just 47 an overlay just to show where there is a high likelihood of wetlands or steep slopes and so forth. 48 49 Hunter Spitzer: Ok, thank you. 50 51 David Blankfard: I have a question, so Orange County Comprehensive Plan map says it’s 20 parcels and 89 acres 52 and Hillsborough says it’s 17 parcels and 84 acres. Is that just the Town and Orange County finally coming together 53 to make the map match up? 54 55 7