Agenda - 09-06-2022; 5-a - Application for Zoning Atlas Amendment – Undeveloped Parcel (PIN 9844-88-7024) at Northeast Corner of Forrest Avenue and Efland-Cedar Grove Road, Efland

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26 Approved 8.3.22 55 Chad Huffine: In the process of developing any type of site change, a change of use necessitates a conversation with county 56 review staff and DOT's district engineer. With the change of use comes a driveway permit and at that point, driveway 57 improvements and connections that are existing will be upgraded or changed to conform with what the DOT district engineer 58 recommends. Vehicles will be similar to what is there now, box trucks, cars,truck and trailers. 59 60 Adam Beeman: Coming off the site, instead of dumping trucks onto Forrest Ave, I would rather see it go out onto 70 and then 61 loop around to tie back into Forrest. At quarter of 8 every morning the train comes through and traffic trying to cross 70 at the 62 light gets backed up past the feed mill. Trying to keep congestion from that spot on that short stub is where I'm at and I think 63 Whitney has the same point. 64 65 Whitney Watson:Yes 66 67 Chad Huffine: That is very helpful to take that information and incorporate it into the emphasis of which driveway is more 68 important. 69 70 Melissa Poole: We're just rezoning it to 1-2 there is no building plan or plan for this yet. If that happens, that's where the traffic 71 studies come in? 72 73 Perdita Holtz: Yes and there may be a traffic study required. NCDOT is involved in all of our site plan reviews and they give 74 their requirements during that site plan process. 75 76 Lamar Proctor: There is an Efland Small Area Plan that goes hand in hand with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan to guide 77 what is happening in downtown Efland, do you think this is consistent with the Efland Small Area Plan? 78 79 Perdita Holtz: It is consistent and I have something in a later slide that speaks to the consistency of the small area plan. The 80 small area plan called for this to be a mixed use area. It called for the village overlay district that would have the different 81 development standards and that has been adopted for a few years. We do view this as consistent with the recommendations 82 of the small area plan. 83 84 Lamar Proctor: Looking over the Efland Small Area Plan,the idea was that Efland would retain a village character and 85 potentially get a train station and the Efland Small Area Plan favored commercial, mixed use but also that includes commercial 86 development as well. Is there water and sewer available? 87 88 Perdita Holtz: There is,this parcel is served by water and sewer. 89 90 Lamar Proctor: So if it hooks up to Mebane's sewer it would have to be voluntarily annexed into Mebane? 91 92 Perdita Holtz: This is in an area where Orange County has an agreement with Mebane because of the way they took over the 93 sewer system that exists in this area but this would not necessarily be annexed. 94 95 Lamar Proctor: My concern is we are going to piece part of western Orange County and it's going to turn into patchwork 96 pieces of Mebane and we are going to lose any real ability to maintain any sort of consistency. 97 98 Perdita Holtz: It would be unlikely that Mebane would annex this particular property because of its distance from its city limits 99 and the agreement that the County has with Mebane when they took over the County-owned sewer system. The County 100 transferred the system into Mebane's ownership and the agreement was that they would serve this area and not pay double 101 rates or anything along those lines. The agreement does not require that Mebane annex properties in order to serve the 102 properties in this area. That is not to say that Mebane won't annex at some point but as you know annexation requires a 103 voluntary property owner. There are no involuntary annexations. 104 105 Lamar Proctor: It doesn't apply to this area but areas that are contiguous to where Mebane extends into Orange County, if 106 you want to get water and sewer you have to voluntarily annex. 107 108 Perdita Holtz: Several miles further west that is true. This is a special area because of the way Orange County used to own 109 the sewer system and the sewer agreement the County entered into with Mebane.