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Cy Stober: At this time it is not in our ordinance and if it is not in the ordinance in the comprehensive plan, that is our 1264 purview to regulate. 1265 1266 Charity Kirk: This is zoned mixed residential, and you’ve highlighted small developments that provide only supportive 1267 nonresidential land uses in an info arrangement serving more than 50 dwelling units and a walkable manner may also be 1268 considered. What are the 50 dwelling units that are walkable? 1269 1270 Cy Stober: Again, as I mentioned before, we have addressed more than 50 units in a 1,000-foot radius for notification so 1271 that addresses that requirement. We requested that sidewalks be placed upon the public road network and the DOT said 1272 no. So, we’ve gone to the limit that we have to try to realize this as a walkable community and the regulatory agency at 1273 the DOT will not allow it to become a walkable community. 1274 1275 Chris Johnston: Is the failure of that in our consideration or is that based on the site plan… 1276 1277 Cy Stober: Staff analysis is that the application is consistent with the COCA as described on the slide. If you disagree, 1278 you respectfully disagree. My analysis, staff analysis, is that the allocation is consistent with this description and the 1279 central Orange coordinator for a mixed residential neighborhood. 1280 1281 Charity Kirk: Did you have any discussion with Hillsborough before bringing this to us, to address their concerns? Or 1282 because it’s already in the COCA and that was the law, we can’t address their …for their plans and desires. 1283 1284 Cy Stober: I think that there is correspondence from staff, Tom King, Brian Green, and their stormwater manager in your 1285 packet. We are required to provide a courtesy review by COCA and we did that. The plans were revised through the plan 1286 review element. There are some outstanding comments with regard to water and sewer but the stormwater comments 1287 and many of the planning comments were addressed through that process and that can be found in your packet. So 1288 these were provided to the Town of Hillsborough. With regard to their comprehensive plan of consistency, staff did not 1289 mention any consistency concerns. 1290 1291 Charity Kirk: What is the likelihood that this will be annexed into Hillsborough? 1292 1293 Cy Stober: Annexation in North Carolina now is almost exclusively voluntary. So, it would have to be voluntary from the 1294 property owners. The town would have to consent to that annexation request. 1295 1296 Lamar Proctor: So it will become a non-contiguous part of Hillsborough if they hook up to the water and sewer? 1297 1298 Cy Stober: They would be out of town, they would not be a satellite incorporated area, no it would not be in the town 1299 limits. It would stay in Orange County and pay out of town rates for water and sewer pending utility expansion. 1300 1301 Lamar Proctor: I’m just confused because I know that there is voluntary annexation agreements, so my experience is 1302 with noncontiguous parcels and that became part of Mebane and it was voluntary…. 1303 1304 Cy Stober: Hillsborough historically has not had the policy that the city of Mebane has that they require a petition for 1305 annexation with a utility connection request. Mebane does require that by policy. I believe Hillsborough either just 1306 recently adopted a similar policy or is in the process of incorporating that into their standards. But they have not had that 1307 requirement. 1308 1309 Melissa Poole: Is HYAA represented here? Or tennis? Understanding the resident’s concerns regarding lighting and 1310 such and the fact that there are not going to be fences. Generally speaking, how long do you anticipate nightly for the 1311 lights to be on? 1312 1313 Tennis representative: I don’t have an answer to that. I don’t know what the UDO statute is, I know that we would be 1314 compliant with that. Typically tennis court lights in other cities and towns go off at either 9 or 10 pm and I anticipate ours 1315 to be at a similar time because night time is night time. The intention is to have directional lighting that points down on 1316 the courts. There are LED lights and if you’ve ever seen the public courts in Mebane, those lights point directly down on 1317 the court and they do a really good job of not spreading. They are not pointed out straight ahead so they aren’t going to 1318 28