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14 439 Whitney Watson- If I could follow up on Randy and actually ask Brian a question, that is designated as an Economic 440 Activity Node, correct? 441 442 Brian Collie- It's a Rural Community Activity Node. 443 444 Whitney Watson- Is there any history of that type of retail store drawing additional commercial activities around them to 445 enhance that node? 446 447 Brian Collie-As far as that question goes, I don't know if I can answer that,we don't have the studies that lead to that. 448 449 Whitney Watson-What about suppressing additional development in that area because of the competition? 450 451 Brian Collie- I can't answer that either. 452 453 Beth Bronson-There are studies out there if you start poking, but they are usually for more urban areas, not rural areas. 454 455 Cy Stober- If you look at the language in the comprehensive plan, it simply makes recommendations about what the 456 future land use should be in that area. It doesn't really speak to competition between nonresidential uses, so we are 457 bound and limited by the guidance provided by the comprehensive plan. 458 459 Beth Bronson-Can you clarify to that point that the comprehensive plan does not necessarily specify NCCD or the NC 2, 460 but they do specify to local commercial? 461 462 Cy Stober-No, commercial. This was in the slide that Brian already had up. If you look at the last clause, "an appropriate 463 location for any of the following uses, the institutional uses then the final clauses, one or more commercial uses"that is 464 the guidance that is provided to us by our comprehensive plan. Imperfect as it may be, that is the guidance that staff has 465 in making its findings and I have in making my recommendation to you all. 466 467 Beth Bronson-I absolutely agree with you. Because this application falls under"one or more commercial uses", I do want 468 to highlight the emphasis on"institutional uses", in that sense of this rural community activity node,juxtaposed with the 469 existing commercial uses that are already in play, in that intersection, in that activity node. Not to say that there's any 470 question to that, but the fact that the NC2 is designated for the rural community activity node... 471 472 Cy Stober- It was neighborhood commercial versus LC-1 which is local commercial, so they are applied appropriately 473 based upon their description,the buffers and what is in the ordinance about how they may be consistently integrated and 474 introduced into an activity node or an area of the county but yes. There's no prescription in that NC 2 can only be in 475 these activity nodes or LC-1 can only be in these that's not how that works. 476 477 Beth Bronson-So they overlap? 478 479 Cy Stober-Yes. 480 481 Beth Bronson-Agreed.We saw this at the last presentation for the rezoning too. It's coming within this time frame 482 because it's dissimilar. I think it's important that the board and the community also know that the zoning application is 483 different which makes it dissimilar which may have already been stated. But I think it's worth underscoring that there's no 484 longer a local commercial aspect to it. It is a neighborhood commercial ask like a conditional zoning request. 485 486 Cy Stober-Well, there was that question that was significant at the Planning Board meeting in August, regarding 487 consumption of the... there's an allocation of X number of acreage in each activity node and conditional zoning does not 488 impact that allocation, so there's still available NC2 and LC-1 acreage,that could be considered for future rezonings. 489 490 Beth Bronson-Thank you for that clarification. 491 492 Lamar Proctor-What is that allocation,for rural community activity node, do you know? 493