Agenda - 11-05-20; 8-a - Minutes

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13 1 a. Proposed Amendments to the Town of Hillsborough/Orange County Central 2 Orange Coordinated Area (COCA) Land Use Plan and to the Orange County 3 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map (FLUM) 4 5 The Board considered voting to approve a resolution on a County-initiated request amending 6 the Town of Hillsborough/Orange County Central Orange Coordinated Area (COCA) Land Use 7 Plan, and the Orange County Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map (FLUM). 8 9 Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor, said the order of the planning items 10 this evening is typical, especially when considering changes to land use plans and zoning in the 11 same geographies, in whole or part. He said this maintains consistency. He said the two 12 rezoning items do include such a statement of consistency. He said this practice was reversed 13 at September meetings, to allow the public the opportunity to speak. He said the public hearing 14 on RTLP was spread across two meetings to accommodate public comment. He said the land 15 use amendments this evening are not for RTLP, but rather an extension of a process started in 16 2017. He said the Planning Board, staff, and County Manager recommend approval of RTLP, 17 but approving the land use plans does not guarantee the approval of RTLP. He said if the 18 BOCC chooses not to approve the land use plans, it should do so because it no longer supports 19 the existing plan, rather than being opposed to RTLP. He reviewed the following information: 20 21 BACKGROUND: Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough have been discussing potential 22 expansion of the Hillsborough Economic Development area for several years as the County 23 continued work towards investing in a sewer “trunk line”, south of Interstate 40 and west of Old 24 Highway 86, in accordance with its Capital Improvement Plan developed in 2012. With an eye 25 towards maximizing the use of the sewer line, there is interest in designating additional lands 26 that could be served via a “gravity sewer line” for non-residential purposes. In addition, Orange 27 County evaluates the amount of land available for economic development, and due to lands 28 being developed as the UNC Hospital and Durham Technical Community College over the last 29 few years, the limited supply in this area was considered for expansion. 30 31 At its June 6, 2017 meeting, the BOCC approved amendments to the Water and Sewer 32 Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement (WASMPBA) to expand the Hillsborough 33 Primary Service Area. All parties have since approved the WASMPBA amendment, with the 34 Town of Hillsborough Board as the last party to approve it in October 2017. Because of 35 language included in the approval resolutions, the WASMPBA amendment is to become 36 effective when the joint land use plan is amended to reflect the expanded Urban Service Area 37 and assigned a future land use classification. Some of these background details, including 38 notice to the Board when the land use plan amendments would be forthcoming, were included 39 as an Information Item on the Board’s June 16, 2020 agenda. The link to that Information Item 40 is: http://server3.co.orange.nc.us:8088/WebLink/0/doc/62679/Page1.aspx 41 42 In accordance with the provisions of Section 2.3 Comprehensive Plan Amendments of the 43 Unified Development Ordinance, the Planning Director has initiated amendments to the Central 44 Orange Coordinated Area (COCA) Land Use Plan and to the Orange County Comprehensive 45 Plan Future Land Use Map (FLUM) in the vicinity of the southern portion of the Hillsborough 46 Area Economic Development District. The amendments related to COCA affect 17 parcels (in 47 whole or part) encompassing 84 acres. The amendments related to the FLUM affect 20 parcels 48 (in whole or part) encompassing 89 acres. The COCA proposed land use category is Suburban 49 Office and the FLUM proposed category is Economic Development. These related amendments 50