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Approved 7.10.24 following uses: church, fire station, small post office, school or other similar institutional uses and one or more 608 commercial uses. And then again, just to hear them back to back, the rural neighborhood activity node is defined as, 609 land focused on a designated road intersection within the rural areas that is appropriate for small scale commercial 610 uses, characteristic of mom and pop convenience stores and gas stations. I do know that part of the rationale for the 611 location of the community nodes was that they correspond with historic crossroad communities in the county and so 612 in addition to White Cross, there's Cedar Grove, there's Carr, there's Caldwell and Schley which are four rural 613 community nodes that are all in the northern part of the county. As far as why MPD-CD was left out of one node and 614 not the other, I just won't venture to guess, I would say I would do the same thing that the board and others might do 615 is try to read the definitions there and try to maybe guess at what may have been the original intentions. We did 616 have previously, before conditional districts, there was a planned development district and so there were some 617 changes when the code was updated to include conditional districts and that may have been, the time in between the 618 original establishment of those nodes and the creation of the original matrix from 1981, when a change was made to 619 the matrix. So, I will stop there. I hope that helped some. 620 621 Lamar Proctor: All right, any questions of Mr. Altieri? 622 623 Chris Johnston: I do have one quick question. The rural neighborhood activity district, they're all circles and so my 624 question would be in regards to how often they expand outside those designated circles that they have? They all 625 looked pretty standard still, and so was this the first one that has tried to venture outside of its designated zone since 626 1981? 627 628 Tom Altieri To my knowledge I believe this would be the first expansion of one of those nodes. There are a 629 couple going back, again to the original plan that aren't full circles, that were like little slices of circles, and there are a 630 couple of those in different areas of the county. Having read a while back the 1981 plan, these things were located 631 where there were existing uses on the ground at that point in time, so my guess is where there's a slice and not a full 632 radius they were trying to cover maybe one corner of an intersection and make sure that there was a consistent land 633 use classification. 634 635 Chris Johnston: Sure, and I guess my follow-up question then is in regards to why they picked a circle versus, I 636 mean, I don't want to get into the logistics there, but why they picked a circle instead of following the existing parcels 637 or anything along those lines. It just feels like it belabors itself to having to be expanded one way or another if it were 638 to follow that. 639 640 Cy Stober: If I may, that is a consistent frustration of staff with our Future Land Use Map. The failure to follow 641 property lines presents some challenges. 642 643 Chris Johnston: So, it's not unreasonable to expand it because the circle just seems to have been pulled out of – 644 645 Tom Altieri: Correct. And so again, going back to 1981, well before geographic information systems we had 646 paper copies, I wasn't here then, but paper copies of the zoning maps with the parcel lines, literally blue lines. 647 There's been a lot of changes in technology and so yes, with our update to our plan we do see it being more parcel 648 based than what we have now. 649 650 Chris Johnston: Okay, thank you. 651 652 Marilyn Carter: Thank you for the presentation and the history. I do have a question about MPD-CDs and whether 653 any rezonings have taken place under that classification with the rural community activity node over time. Have we 654 had an MPD-CDs yet in the county? 655 656 Tom Altieri: There have not been. 657 658