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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to pass businesses and retail potential down the road to get off of my Rural Buffer property. If we are going to make 447 development, there has got to be a buffer between a Rural Buffer and the beginning of the Retail and Industrial. It 448 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 449 to here’s an industrial zone. If you are going to this and recommend to the County Commissioners that they do this 450 and approve this then you need to do away with the Rural Buffer. That needs to be forgotten about so I guess if 451 there is a question in all that, is there any intention of providing any kind of buffer between my driveway and the 452 changes that this might allow and the zoning that it might allow down the road and I know that the answer to that is 453 no. So, I would beg you please recommend to the Commissioners at least for Item 8 and of course, I think so for the 454 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 455 what we’ve done here. Thank you. 456 457 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 458 directly affected by this amendment. This proposed amendment that was snuck in, that was completely different for 459 Settler’s Point, is really upsetting because I will have a warehouse in my backyard, about a 100 yards away from my 460 children’s playset. I moved here to keep my kid’s childhood simple with the woods and being able to run around and 461 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 462 land and I understand that we can’t fight it all but whoever said it earlier, fighting and winning this battle and losing 463 the war is looking like it might be but please do not put a semi in my backyard and this warehouse. One thing Randy, 464 this is my backyard, I don’t live down Davis Road, I live on Old 86. Thank you. 465 466 Cedar Eagle: Hello, I have a question regarding the zoning basically. Can the constituents create a petition to keep 467 the zoning as Rural and Residential and if so, how many signature would be required on a petition like that before the 468 Town would have to address it? That’s my only question. 469 470 Craig Benedict: There is a public hearing process that is part of these amendments. You are welcome to attend and 471 bring signatures or petitions if you would like to that public hearing and that will be part of the consideration for the 472 amendment so that’s the process within the laws of the County that are put up in the Unified Development 473 Ordinance. 474 475 Cedar Eagle: Ok but there’s no set amount of signatures that is necessary. You can’t give me any kind of numerical 476 data to show how much outcry we would need to make it strongly … I mean I understand the County Commissioners 477 what this approved but pretty much everything I’ve heard from every resident wants it to keep agricultural and 478 residentially zoned so if had a public outcry of thousands of petitions saying they don’t want it how much impact 479 would that have? 480 481 Craig Benedict: We regularly, as part of the public hearing process, take a look at the input that comes from 482 residents and it is gauged against our Comprehensive Plan. There is not a numerical limit that makes it go one way 483 or the other. There is a public hearing process. 484 485 Cedar Eagle: Ok, thank you that’s all I needed to know. 486 487 Tom Altieri: If I might add, what you are describing sounds a little bit like a reference to annexation law in that when 488 an area is proposed for voluntary annexation, a majority of the property owners have to agree to that annexation. 489 That could be what you are referring to. Annexation of course is not proposed here and there is no rezoning part of 490 Item 8. 491 492 Jack Rupplin: Good evening, I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about this issue. I was ignorant about it until 493 a few days ago until Franklin Garland told me about it because I noticed the little signs but they didn’t mean much to 494 me. He briefed me on this and I realized the impact that this would have on the total area and I was totally shocked. I 495 thought that this amount of time that he described was totally short fused especially on circumstances we are living 496 now with the COVID and so I contacted my attorney and he referred me to another attorney and in turn they referred 497 me to Morningstar Law and they are a very good group of attorneys who specialize in this sort of issue. I spoke with 498 them and I asked them what it would take for them to represent us in this case which I will oppose with all ingenuity 499 and money I can muster to stop this because it is totally a rough plan. It’s a plan without any thought there is no 500 special use zoning in here, it’s just all very broad stroked and that makes it very dangerous and very unpredictable 501 and we will suffer the consequences for a long time and I am personally very happy where I’m near and I will want to 502 15