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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Hunter Spitzer: New question, I know that the Town is planning to expand sewer service area to the north of this 279 parcel that’s in question right now and they will provide services to the proposed RTLP development but I remember 280 reading the plan that they’re also planning a long term vision to build a sewer loop that will return back across 86 and 281 I wondered if the Town needs this area to complete that project? 282 283 Craig Benedict: Tom, I can handle that one. The loop that they would be providing would be for a water system and 284 not a sewer system. So it’s likely that in order to get the fire flows for development of this type, that a loop would 285 occur back from I-40 near the service road through the development and back out to Old 86 where there is presently 286 a large water line in 86 now. As far as the sewer system, this area even this additional 12 acre area and the other 287 roughly 70 acres on the east side all flows by gravity naturally to the sewer systems within Hillsborough. That’s why 288 this both could be served easily by the sewer system and also water main loop that would go back to the existing 289 facilities along Old 86. 290 291 Hunter Spitzer: Right, the Town doesn’t necessarily need this area to complete the water loop. 292 293 Craig Benedict: There’s multiple engineering solutions. One of them would be a loop system so it’s something that’s 294 being explored to provide those fire flows that are necessary. 295 296 David Blankfard: I think the other way they could do it is to have a fire pump inside each room and each building 297 could generate the flows that they would need for a sprinkler system but those are costly. 298 299 Bob Bundschuh: My name is Bob Bundschuh; I also live in New Hope Springs, a couple of miles down Davis. I’ll try 300 to keep this to this particular amendment. The first question I have is when did Hillsborough actually approve this? 301 You said that this is the next step the County has to then follow suit but why now? What made it pertinent this month 302 to actually start doing this and is it related to the second part of the agenda? Looking at your first five slides, you 303 looked at all the areas that are slated for development, there are a lot of areas that are slated for development, 304 already zoned for development and aren’t developed yet. So why the push to do this right now, why don’t we wait 305 until we actually let the demand start catching up with the supply. Or as some people have said is this a quick way to 306 get this kind of rezoned and then call it the master plan which back when Settler’s Point was going on this was phase 307 3 and some type of retirement place and we’re going to go ahead and table that as kind of a negotiation tactic that 308 was used back then. So why is it suddenly become a thing to, it’s not a rezoning but we’re going to match it up with 309 the master plan for the Suburban Office. The second one is the 12 acre parcel at the northwest corner, it’s kind of 310 funny that it is connected to the redrawing of the lines to say, we need that little 12 acre parcel to become part of this 311 complex across the way. So we had 89 acres and 12 of it is across the street. Is it really realistic that someone 312 would actually go in and get that 12 acres, develop it you said, a walkable office building without drive up traffic or is 313 that a way to let’s get this little corner across the street, and Hunter even eluded to it, do we have to do it in the right 314 order to say yeah we do the land use first and then we can go and rezone it. Is that a way of saying let’s get this first 315 because somebody wants to rezone that later. It’s not, it doesn’t make sense that we have to put that little 12 acre 316 piece in there, it’s just a way to get it in line so that in your next agenda you can then rezone it. Like other people, 317 that connection to Davis, and we’ll talk about that more in the second one, it makes no sense. Davis is a two-lane 318 road where the white line actually will go into the gravel sometimes it’s so narrow. The development on Davis is not 319 where you want to put it. And lastly, so how do we change it? Every time we come to one of these meetings, we 320 want to change the master plan of the development to zone it more industrial and take away rural and you said well 321 that’s been the plan for 20 years. Well obviously, it can be changed so how do we change it back. Do we go to the 322 zoning board? Do we go to the County Commissioners? How do we put restrictions as the people that live out here, 323 so that every year we don’t have to keep doing this and that a decision made 20, 30 years, is not going to come up 324 all the time. One last comment, and Randy with all due respect, you said earlier that we have to make this quick or 325 we’ll be here terribly late. I understand we got to make it quick but we live here. We’re the one that have to deal with 326 the decisions being made so if people have to stay up a little later, I think that’s a small sacrifice for those of us who 327 have to live with being up terribly late with development so with all due respect, I’m ok with staying up a little late and 328 I think everybody else is to. Thank you. 329 330 Maryanne Ross: Hi, thank you for having this meeting and thank you Bob for that. We are community members and 331 with all due respect, if we are here later, this is our neighborhood. The last meeting that we attended it was put off to 332 a later date and they waited until we forgot, they waited until something else happened and they passed a rezoning. 333 It’s the same thing that Ronald said, the sign was put out and it was so small, the meeting had passed, it was only for 334 12