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Approved 9/2/202� <br /> 111 AGENDA ITEM 8: ZONING ATLAS AMENDMENT(MASTER PLAN DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION—RESEARCH TRIANGLE <br /> 112 LOGISTICAL PARK)-To continue review and make a recommendation to the BOCC on a developer- <br /> 113 initiated application for an MPD-CZ(Master Plan Development Conditional Zoning). The proposed <br /> 114 project encompasses approximately 180 acres in the Hillsborough Economic Development District <br /> 115 (EDD)south of Interstate 40 and west of Old Highway 86,within Hillsborough Township. 168 <br /> 116 acres are currently zoned MPD-CZ(Settler's Point)and 12 acres are currently zoned R-1 (Rural <br /> 117 Residential). This item was continued from the August 5 regular meeting and is scheduled for <br /> 118 BOCC public hearing on September 15, 2020. <br /> 119 PRESENTER: Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor <br /> 120 Michael Harvey reviewed the abstract and proposed changes to the Zoning Atlas Amendment <br /> 121 <br /> 122 Craig Benedict: Good evening, just for the help for the Planning Board, when the Planning Board suggests <br /> 123 conditions, it is good to make sure there's consensus amongst the Planning Board that these are newly imposed <br /> 124 conditions that go beyond what was in the original abstract. If one of your thoughts is to vote on the three conditions <br /> 125 at are on page 17 of the abstract and those three new conditions that were suggested by the Board at the last <br /> 126 meeting, it wasn't necessarily a vote. We want to make sure that when the vote does occur that these conditions are <br /> 127 clearly included in the other 50 plus conditions that are there. Of those 3 conditions that you mentioned a couple of <br /> 128 weeks ago, as Michael said, energy for the building,fuel storage more than 30 feet away from a flood plain area and <br /> 129 EV stations at the buildings. So, at some point in your deliberations or possibly now, you could at least make a <br /> 130 motion that the Planning Board is in agreement to add these to the other 50 plus conditions we have for the project. <br /> 131 That is one topic; another topic is tonight there is a lot of people that are participating in the meeting. It is up to the <br /> 132 Board to listen to proposals, it's also up to the Board if there is some repetitiveness you can say that is clearly noted <br /> 133 in the record and we will take that under consideration. The motion that is available in the agenda package that is on <br /> 134 page 41 for this item talks about the Planning Board coming to a determination in enough time that it can reach a <br /> 135 public hearing in September. Please keep that in mind. It is not unlimited in your time to have to make decisions on <br /> 136 this item. If the Board feels like it would like another meeting to hear additional input from the public that is their <br /> 137 prerogative. It would probably be just one more opportunity to do that before we need to conclude this item, approval <br /> 138 or denial and move it on; and get the draft minutes of the meeting to move onto the formal public hearing which is <br /> 139 schedule to occur in mid-September. Those are just some additional items and we will help guide you through as <br /> 140 deliberations continue. The first item I brought up is just to get some clarity to get that behind us so that we do not <br /> 141 lose those additional conditions that were suggested by the Board on August 5tn <br /> 142 <br /> 143 David Blankfard: Is everyone ok with the first condition about the fuel or chemical storage not occurring within 30 feet <br /> 144 of the floodplain? <br /> 145 <br /> 146 Planning Board Members were in consensus <br /> 147 <br /> 148 David Blankfard: The next one is at least two electrical vehicle charging stations per building. <br /> 149 <br /> 150 Planning Board Members were in consensus <br /> 151 <br /> 152 David Blankfard: Ok, Hunter what did you say about the third one? <br /> 153 <br /> 154 Hunter Spitzer: I would like for it, instead of reading unnecessarily preclude, read necessarily prepare for <br /> 155 incorporation. <br /> 156 <br /> 157 David Blankfard: So you want them to ... <br /> 158 <br /> 159 Hunter Spitzer: Necessarily prepare for incorporation of alternative energy systems. <br /> 160 <br /> 161 Adam Beeman: What does that mean? <br /> 162 <br /> 163 Hunter Spitzer: Well as it stated, they could necessarily preclude incorporation of alternative energy systems and it <br /> 164 seems if they so choose they can make up any reason why they can necessarily preclude. I would like for it to be a <br /> 165 little bit more forceful than that. So necessarily prepare would mean that I would like for them to design an idea, I <br />