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Approved 8.3.22 224 225 Marilyn Liner: I want to address the type of zoning, I think I speak for the majority of the long-time residents concerning this 226 matter. Buc-ee's came up and most of the people who live there were not opposed they just wanted the traffic issue resolved. 227 There is an abundance of available warehouses, in Mebane behind the Food Lion on Hwy 119 there is a building that has 228 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 229 need amenities. Some examples could be banks,a chain supermarket, a drug store, a restaurant. Most people in Efland go 230 to Mebane for services and if something was here that money would go to Orange County. I would like to see it zoned either 231 commercial or residential rather than industrial. 232 233 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 234 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 235 small. The standalone Food Lion wouldn't fit. That brings us to restaurant and there is O/RM across the street that can house 236 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 237 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 238 use for the property, it behaves like that. 239 240 Lamar Proctor: I live in the Cheeks area,the Efland area and there's huge spec warehouses going in on Buckhorn,there's 241 Medline and I'm concerned that continued spot zoning,to change parcels to industrial is evidently going to wipe out any sort of 242 communal village of Efland and develop out all the residents. I think with the changes coming to the Triangle, Efland, that exit 243 could be something really cool and special and I hate to see it become just a further industrial extension of Medline and the 244 warehouses that are going up at the Buckhorn exit. I don't think it benefits the residents of Efland. 245 246 Charity Kirk: You mention the 0/RM zoning, it was changed because of misinformation? What is the difference between 247 O/RM and 1-2? 248 249 Perdita Holtz: Yes,they were given incorrect information about what would be allowed in 0/RM when they had a meeting with 250 former staff who are no longer here. When they called me after the former staff person was gone, I told them that a restaurant 251 as part of a multiuse building in O/RM could be established only if there was also a research facility without manufacturing. 1 252 know it sounds odd. 253 254 Beth Bronson:The fact that the property is currently zoned residential and they have indicated it will be a flex space, in the 255 sense that it is cohesive with the adjoining property;the applicant now has the option to recreate that entire corner in whatever 256 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 257 developed now because they are aligned versus as they were saying, if this corner was Office/Research and Manufacturing 258 and the existing 1-2 remained 1-2. If they wanted to take that lower corner that runs parallel with Forrest Ave. and have a 259 different type of structure that did serve the purposes to what the public described, like a bank or restaurant. My comment is if 260 they put in an application to rezone any combination of it, it would all make more sense being cohesive as one zone for the 261 parcels. 262 263 Statler Gilfillen: Am I right to assume that the industrial zoning probably gives them the most flexibility to do what they need to 264 or want to do on this site? 265 266 Perdita Holtz: Not necessarily, if they wanted to put in a restaurant,they are not going to be able to do that in the industrial 267 zone. You would need to look and see what types of uses are allowed. 268 269 Lamar Proctor: My concern is its Medium Industrial so it is wide open and it could end up being something that is detrimental 270 to downtown Efland in terms of preserving its village character or any sort of mixed use residential village idea in the Efland 271 Small Area Plan. We don't know what it is going to become. 272 273 Adam Beeman: From the information the applicant provided, I picture a facility like The Water Specialist across from Tractor 274 Supply that has a little office out front and in the back he has his vans and all that area is fenced in so that the contractors hide 275 their vehicles behind it and they have their conduit and water supplies and all that stuff is hidden which is The Water Specialist 276 and the next building is someone else and all they have is literally office and a little bit of storage area. That to me is what 1 277 picture him saying and for me as a contractor, there is not much space for small guys. The big warehouse mentioned, ask 278 how much the rent was, I almost fell out when I saw how much the rent was for that big warehouse. No one is renting that 279 place for the price they are asking. I can see on that corner small building for electrical contractors, plumbing contractors, and