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28 <br /> Approved 8.3.22 <br /> 165 <br /> 166 Chad Huffine: When we get to the deliberation of the members, if we need to look specifically at the table of permitted uses <br /> 167 and those uses sometimes considered not desirable, those have design standards not allowed within 1,000 ft.of a church or a <br /> 168 residence and there are both within that distance. We have no desire to bring anything but an improvement to this area. <br /> 169 <br /> 170 Britt Irwin: It will be the nicest building in Efland. I'm spending a lot of money on the mill and renovating it and bringing it up to <br /> 171 standards and I'm making it nice. I'll do the same with the proposed building. It is not going to be a metal building. It's going <br /> 172 to be a nice building that is landscaped and looks nice and will look nicer than anything in that whole commercial area now. <br /> 173 <br /> 174 Lamar Proctor: I appreciate that and I think this area is very important and very valuable. There is a lot of residential plots <br /> 175 around there and then right down the road there are giant spec warehouses going into the Buckhorn exit and then there is <br /> 176 Medline and so I am wondering if you considered potentially rezoning it commercial or 0/RM for both parcels. Why does it <br /> 177 need to be industrial? <br /> 178 <br /> 179 Chad Huffine: In an effort of being consistent you look at the 0/RM uses, then you look at the I-2 uses and what we want to <br /> 180 do in 1-2 fits the property. It is cohesive we are intending to make the property behave as if it is an internally served site and if <br /> 181 you have two separate zonings then regardless of the zoning, if it's not consistent then we have concerns. <br /> 182 <br /> 183 Britt Irwin: What you are talking about is coming elsewhere to Efland because that's what most of the people in Efland want. <br /> 184 They want a place to eat, they want another grocery store and all that stuff. 1-2 makes the most sense because we already <br /> 185 have the driveway connection and everything is already there. It's the only use that makes sense because of the size. <br /> 186 <br /> 187 <br /> 188 Marilyn Liner: I want to address the type of zoning, I think I speak for the majority of the long-time residents concerning this <br /> 189 matter. Buc-ee's came up and most of the people who live there were not opposed they just wanted the traffic issue resolved. <br /> 190 There is an abundance of available warehouses, in Mebane behind the Food Lion on Hwy 119 there is a building that has <br /> 191 been there and it's been for rent for years now. I think we'd be open to commercial zoning but not industrial. People in Efland <br /> 192 need amenities. Some examples could be banks, a chain supermarket, a drug store, a restaurant. Most people in Efland go <br /> 193 to Mebane for services and if something was here that money would go to Orange County. I would like to see it zoned either <br /> 194 commercial or residential rather than industrial. <br /> 195 <br /> 196 Chad Huffine: From a land use perspective, if I try to site a drugs store, it's going to take about 1.5 acres with buffers and <br /> 197 access that will come off Efland Cedar Grove and I run out of room. I try and build a shopping center grocery store, it's too <br /> 198 small. The standalone Food Lion wouldn't fit. That brings us to restaurant and there is 0/RM across the street that can house <br /> 199 a restaurant and so in an effort to be consistent with what is already there,that's why we went back to the 1-2 zoning. It <br /> 200 doesn't bring all the traffic or all the nuisances that come with a large traffic or trip generated like a gas station. It's the right <br /> 201 use for the property, it behaves like that. <br /> 202 <br /> 203 Lamar Proctor: I live in the Cheeks area, the Efland area and there's huge spec warehouses going in on Buckhorn,there's <br /> 204 Medline and I'm concerned that continued spot zoning,to change parcels to industrial is evidently going to wipe out any sort of <br /> 205 communal village of Efland and develop out all the residents. I think with the changes coming to the Triangle, Efland,that exit <br /> 206 could be something really cool and special and I hate to see it become just a further industrial extension of Medline and the <br /> 207 warehouses that are going up at the Buckhorn exit. I don't think it benefits the residents of Efland. <br /> 208 <br /> 209 Charity Kirk: You mention the 0/RM zoning, it was changed because of misinformation? What is the difference between <br /> 210 0/RM and I-2? <br /> 211 <br /> 212 Perdita Holtz: Yes,they were given incorrect information about what would be allowed in 0/RM when they had a meeting with <br /> 213 former staff who are no longer here. When they called me after the former staff person was gone, I told them that a restaurant <br /> 214 as part of a multiuse building in 0/RM could be established only if there was also a research facility without manufacturing. I <br /> 215 know it sounds odd. <br /> 216 <br /> 217 Beth Bronson: The fact that the property is currently zoned residential and they have indicated it will be a flex space, in the <br /> 218 sense that it is cohesive with the adjoining property;the applicant now has the option to recreate that entire corner in whatever <br /> 219 way they want to whether it's that one parcel or the two parcels or a combination, there are many different ways that can be <br />