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Approved 4 - 5 - 23 439 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 23 460 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