Agenda - 04-04-2023; 5-b - Application for Zoning Atlas Amendment – Parcel Located at 3026 White Cross Road, Chapel Hill, in Bingham Township

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170 DRAFT 930 space that's magnitudes larger than the other commercial establishments that have existed there for a long time. So, 1 931 think that this is inconsistent with the comprehensive land use plan because of that reason, I'm concerned that it 932 bypasses and subverts the limitations on commercial uses in the rural activity node,that it's also inconsistent with the 933 resource protection area of the White Cross School and that,as Ms. Bronson pointed out, that it appears that the traffic 934 impact study may be insufficient, given the level of traffic that may be anticipated and the timing of that study that was 935 done during the pandemic when we know that a lot of vehicular traffic was limited. 936 1 would move to not recommend that this zoning change be approved to the Orange County Commissioners based on 937 those reasons. 938 939 Randy Marshall-Don't we have to have a motion to approve and then vote it up or down? 940 941 Delores Bailey- I have a comment before we vote. 942 943 Bob Hornik-Had a correction concerning the traffic study. He said the study was done in November 2022, not during the 944 pandemic. 945 946 David Blankfard-The study said that if they didn't do anything it would be just as bad as if they did do something. 947 948 Beth Bronson-Correct. 949 950 David Blankfard-So it's not as if because we're building this, it's going to get worse, it's going to get worse naturally 951 because people are moving more and driving more between Alamance and Carrboro. 952 953 Lamar Proctor- I withdraw the statement on traffic. My concerns about its inconsistency with the comprehensive land use 954 plan and the rural community activity node are the same. 955 956 Randy Marshall- I'm happy to make a motion and then people can vote the way they want to. I don't think you can make 957 the motion in the negative.You have to make the motion and then vote it down if you don't agree with it. 958 959 Delores Bailey-There are a couple of pieces that I heard in the public comment about this project, specifically the words 960 that hit me were;for conditional zoning that we're looking for,for the change of this to meet a distinct need of the 961 community, a good civic design and compatible, and harmonious with what we are trying to do for this area. While 1 962 agree that we do need more commercial projects,when I listen to the person from the public describe the sizes of the 963 other commercial properties that are out there in this area,this seems tremendously out of scale with what we've got 964 there. The value of rural preservation is important to me and so I in my zoning purview as the applicant kept reminding 965 us that this is about a zoning piece, zoning does require us to look at this as it meets a distinct need of the community 966 and good civic design, and I have some concerns about that. 967 968 David Blankfard-We can add conditions to the project beyond the 6 that the applicant has stated, and I wanted to know 969 if anybody else on the board had any additional conditions that they would say, if we did this,we would change our vote. 970 971 Beth Bronson- I have one condition that I was thinking of. I would like to put forth the idea of a condition that the right- 972 hand turn lane on 54 going south towards White Cross be extended an additional 100 feet. 973 974 Charity Kirk-Would you approve the project if it was? 975 976 Beth Bronson-Yes. 977 978 Taylor Perchau- I want to remind you that any condition does have to be agreed upon.Also, if we are talking about a 979 condition that is an NCDOT right of way,we are bringing in a 3rd party that can't offer their statement on that tonight. 980 981 Beth Bronson-That would be my suggestion. I am open to any other conditional requests. 982 983 Adam Beeson- Does anyone want to vote on Beth's suggestion, up or down? 984