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Approved 7.10.24
<br />on as first, in other words, at what point if there's general agreement of the board, that we should vote on accepting 506
<br />this particular amendment, the one amendment. 507
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<br />Lamar Proctor: I think we need to go through the process as stated, hearing from staff, hearing from the applicant, 509
<br />questions from the board, public comment, deliberation, and then we will take each item separately. 510
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<br />Marilyn Carter: Okay, very good, thank you. 512
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<br />Cy Stober: So, this was not a staff-initiated amendment, it was an applicant initiated amendment, so the 514
<br />applicant needs to speak to the matter before any action should be taken. 515
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<br />Lamar Proctor: Yes, and I had a quick question and tell me if this is the next part of your presentation, the 517
<br />difference between rural community and rural neighborhood activity nodes and why MPD-CD zoning was applicable 518
<br />to RCAN, but not RNAN if there's some explicit reason. 519
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<br />Cy Stober: Tom and I will do our best to try to read the minds of folks in 2006 and make that determination. 521
<br />But yeah, that's where we're heading. 522
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<br />Lamar Proctor: All right, thank you. Any other questions before we proceed, okay, thank you. 524
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<br />Cy Stober: So, the Future Land Use Map designations for this property are agricultural residential in green. 526
<br />The definitions that are applied to the two Future Land Use Map designations can be found here on the slide. The 527
<br />other is rural neighborhood activity node which covers the intersection of Morrow Mill and North Carolina 54. And 528
<br />then the applicant has proposed to amend here in the hashing the activity node to extend to the limits of the property. 529
<br />And with that, I will ask Tom to come up and address Item 7 which he conducted the analysis on. This is Tom Altieri, 530
<br />Senior Planner. 531
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<br />Tom Altieri: Yes, thank you Cy, good evening. So, the purpose of this item is to consider two applicant-initiated 533
<br />amendments to the comprehensive plan, the first being to the Future Land Use Map to expand the Rural 534
<br />Neighborhood Activity Node and the second a text amendment to Appendix F of the Comprehensive Plan which is 535
<br />the land use and zoning matrix. I have about 13 slides so a couple of them will look similar to what was provided in 536
<br />the zoning atlas amendment deck so I'll go through those quickly. The proposed amendment is to expand the rural 537
<br />neighborhood activity node by approximately 71.6 acres from the land use classification agricultural residential to 538
<br />rural neighborhood activity node. And the text amendment again to Appendix F as I mentioned. This particular slide 539
<br />includes a vicinity map of the Future Land Use Map and it shows how the adjacent properties or local properties are 540
<br />classified on the Future Land Use Map. The classifications that you see here include agricultural residential, the 541
<br />node that we have mentioned several times, rural residential, rural community activity node, and then the rural buffer, 542
<br />and on the next slide it's a little bit better view of the area here. Just to kind of orient, the reverse C shape in the 543
<br />middle of the map there, that is the property in question. Just to the north is the rural neighborhood activity node. 544
<br />The rural community activity node at White Cross is further to the east there. It's a little less than 2 miles, about 1.8 545
<br />miles, from the central portion of the neighborhood node to the central portion of that community node. The 546
<br />boundary of the rural buffer is further to the east you can see it there on the map where University Lake watershed is 547
<br />labeled there, but predominantly agricultural residential which is the lighter of the two green shades on the map. In 548
<br />Mr. Stober's presentation he reviewed the definitions of the agricultural residential and rural neighborhood activity 549
<br />node. I'll get to the community node in just a bit. But there's also an overlay in this area and that is the resource 550
<br />protection area overlay that is land designated as primary conservation area which includes wetlands and flood 551
<br />plains, steep slopes, natural areas, wildlife habitats and corridors, and significant historic and archaeological sites. 552
<br />There is a very small portion on the property all the way in the lower right-hand corner where you see the dark green 553
<br />area, that is the area of resource protection overlay. There is a letter in your packet, really all of this information is in 554
<br />your packet, but I know you can't read the letter that's here on the screen, but it is from the county's Department of 555
<br />Environment, Agriculture, Parks, and Recreation, and it speaks specifically to those resource protection areas that 556
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