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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260 Approved 8.7.24 553 lanes, sidewalks, bus stops and three-story buildings with lighting that would extend into 554 the community, I believe that people would see this site from the road, and it would differ 555 from what's out there. Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. 556 557 Adam Beeman: So, let me just clarify. The first item up is the comprehensive plan, future land use map, 558 and text amendments. I'm going to call your name up, you come up, give me your 3 559 minutes on this amendment, and then you can sit down, and if you're signed up for 560 another one, you can come up and give me your 3 minutes on the next amendment, and 561 we'll go through all three amendments. I apologize if I butcher your name. Some of your 562 handwriting is tough to read. Kevin Davidson, Clare Steece Julich, and Ralph Warren. 563 564 Patrick Mallett: Sir, as they come up if they could just clearly state their names so we can get the 565 transcription correct. 566 567 Adam Beeman: Okay. 568 569 Edwin Cox: Kevin Davidson is a member of our development team, so, he's not going to make a 570 public statement. 571 572 Adam Beeman: Okay. So, Claire, Ralph Warren, and Dan Eddleman. 573 574 Clare Steece Julich: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to the Planning Board. I'm Clare Steece Julich. 1 575 live out in Bingham Township on 9 wooded acres. I've lived out there with my husband 576 for over 35 years. I'm a member of 2T and Hands Four Development Cooperative, and 1 577 hope to be a resident of Fiddlehead Corner. There are many Fiddlehead Corner 578 supporters here this evening tonight, and I'd like them to raise their hands now. Thank 579 you all. I live across from Sykes Dairy Farm in Bingham Township. I'm 7 miles from the 580 Fiddlehead Corners property. I've observed the changes that have occurred to the rural 581 qualities of the county over the past 3 decades. I've been pleased by the efforts of our 582 county leadership to promote sustainable growth and development that balances the 583 social and environmental needs and the economic factors. This kind of growth can serve 584 the needs of the people for housing while maintaining natural systems in a fiscally sound 585 way, and it's described in Page 1-7 of the comprehensive plan. The June 5th Planning 586 Board meeting packet has an analysis starting on Page 37 in which the planning director 587 states that the applicant's proposal is supportive of the following principles, goals, and 588 objectives outlined within the comprehensive plan and goes on to cite nine specific 589 examples. The last of those is promote clustering of residential development and 590 dedication of large areas of undisturbed land for low-impact recreational use by residents 591 and for wildlife habitat. He concludes the proposal establishes consistency between the 592 comprehensive plan and the applicant's request for MPD-CD zoning as part of the 593 Fiddlehead Corner development proposal. The UDO follows this theme of conservation 594 cluster development in Section 7.12 addressing flexible development. The purpose of 595 flexible development, it says, is to preserve agriculture and forestry lands, natural and 596 cultural features, environmentally sensitive areas and areas with potential for maintaining 597 the character of the community that might be otherwise lost or marginalized with the 598 conventional development. If Fiddlehead Corner proposed for a conventional residential 599 district or even a residential conditional district, its design is exactly what the planners in 600 the earlier boards of commissioners had in mind as an ideal type of development that 601 fulfills the vision for sustainable growth in Orange County. The type of project we are 602 proposing can be an antidote to the creeping sprawl that is occurring in many parts of our