Agenda - 02-04-2025; 5-a - Applications for Zoning Atlas Amendment, Comprehensive Plan Amendments, & UDO Text Amendments to Realize “Fiddlehead Corner”, a Master Plan Development – Conditional District

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16 Only one permitted use is allowed in MPD-CD that is not allowed in the other Conditional Districts. To be clear - Fiddlehead Corner is not proposing any kind of commercial use open to the general public. Any services provided at Fiddlehead Corner are for the exclusive use of residents. The project to be developed by H4D is an intentional community that incorporates music, dance, and the arts into the fabric of its culture - activities that promote socialization and combat isolation and loneliness experienced by many seniors. In addition to providing a variety of housing units, an activities center, and other amenities, H4D is committed to delivering services on the campus allowing residents to remain there throughout their lifespan despite the infirmities of aging. Reclassification from Agricultural Residential to MPD-CD is necessary in order to support the density and mix of housing and ancillary uses needed by the community and to ensure that its character will remain stable over time, yet can respond to changing economic and market conditions. H4D is proposing to create up to 150 residences, a community center, two Family Care Facilities designed for elder care, and various recreational amenities, including but not limited to walking trails, pickleball courts, a swimming pool, and a wood shop. Roadways, commons areas, landscaping, a community well and water distribution system, and a community wastewater treatment system would be constructed, financed and maintained by the community, with professional operators managing these systems. Open-space design would be accomplished by concentrating residential development in compact clusters, thus preserving a large percentage of undisturbed common forested area for enjoyment by all community members. The view of the property from most properties and adjacent roads will be that of a forested rural property. The project was conceived by the Triangle Traditional Music and Dance Retirement Society (TTMADRS, or 2T). 2T is a 501(c)(3) organization formed in 2014 to pursue the idea of an intentional community with the arts as its organizing principle. In 2018, the grassroots organization, 2T, contracted with the national consulting group Action Pact to facilitate a series of focus groups among 2T members to determine the desired characteristics of the community. Action Pact concluded the consultation by producing an Integrated Business Plan (IBP) incorporating those features, complete with schematic drawings and a proforma. A search for land on which to develop the community culminated in locating the subject property. Once the site had been brought under contract, the 2T Board engaged Scott Radway, a land designer with vast experience in the Research Triangle area, to coordinate the project. A 2T Design Team guided by Mr. Radway and drawing upon the Action Pact IBP drafted a set of design specifications. John Felton and Glen Deal of Cline Design in Raleigh were engaged to translate the specifications into a concept design for a Master Plan that is a central part of the application package. Their design achieves the goal of a compact development footprint for the residential areas and facilities, while preserving over half of this land as undisturbed space for the common enjoyment of the community residents and embodying the H4D vision for conservation of the rural character of the property. H4D Narrative, Pg 3