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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5 mailed via first class mail to property owners within 1,000 feet of the subject parcel. These notices were mailed on January 17, 2025, 18 days before the meeting. Staff also posted the subject parcel with a sign [or signs] on January 21 , 2025, 14 days before the meeting. See Attachment A3 for the notification materials. SECTION B: COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS Concurrent with the Zoning Atlas application, Hands Four Development Cooperative submitted an application (Attachment 131) to amend the Comprehensive Plan to 1) expand the Rural Neighborhood Activity Node (RNAN) at Morrow Mill Road and NC 54 on the Future Land Use Map (FLUM); and 2) add the MPD-CD zoning district as an allowable zoning district in the RNAN on the Appendix F Land Use and Zoning Matrix. State law and the UDO require the Board to make a finding of consistency with the adopted Comprehensive Plan when making land use changes. The proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan are necessary for the Board to make this consistency finding in regard to the submitted Fiddlehead Corner zoning application detailed in Section A above. "The [Orange County 2030 Comprehensive Plan] Future Land Use Map (FLUM) defines the location of coordinated and appropriate land use classes and is designed to accommodate a particular combination of land uses that would achieve a desired pattern of development... [t]he Map also provides the development community and staff with clear guidance to the locations in the County where re-zonings may be appropriate and where they are not" (2030 Comprehensive Plan, p. 5-15). The subject property is currently split between two Future Land Use Classes, Agricultural Residential (AR) and Rural Neighborhood Activity Node (RNAN). These land use classes provide guidance on how the property may be used and regulated through zoning. "Agricultural Residential" is defined in the Comprehensive Plan as, "Land in the rural areas where the prevailing land use activities are related to the land (agriculture, forestry) and which is an appropriate location for the continuation of these uses." "Rural Neighborhood Activity Node" (RNAN) is defined in the Comprehensive Plan as, "Land focused on designated road intersections within the rural area that is appropriate for small-scale commercial uses characteristic of "Mom and Pop" convenience stores and gas stations." The proposed FLUM amendment expands the RNAN at Morrow Mill Road and NC-54 from its current +/-18.493 acres to the full 90.133 acres of the property. The expanded area realized through the proposed amendment is +/-71.64 acres (Attachments B2 and 134). The applicant also proposes to amend the Comprehensive Plan's Land Use and Zoning Matrix in Appendix F to allow the MPD-CD zoning district within the RNAN future land use classification (Attachment B3). The Comprehensive Plan Appendix F: Land Use and Zoning Matrix links the County UDO's zoning districts to the future land use classifications and overlays. If a zoning district is not listed as compatible with a land use classification in the Matrix, it is determined to be inconsistent with the County's adopted Comprehensive Plan.