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Approved 7.10.24 Lamar Proctor: Can you briefly sum up the difference between RNAN and RCAN node, rural community rural 659 neighborhood? 660 661 Tom Altieri: Not any more than I did by reading those definitions of the two. 662 663 Beth Bronson: Chair, I apologize, I have a question. But if you would like to go first, please. 664 665 Cy Stober: The only thing that I would have to add is that when they were assigned, the rural 666 neighborhood activity node was to serve a population of 1,000 people or less and the rural community activity node 667 was to serve a population of 1,000 to 5,000 people. Tom covered everything else. 668 669 Lamar Proctor: Okay, Ms. Bronson. 670 671 Beth Bronson: Thank you, and just because you did clarify the definition of the RCAN and the RNAN, the 672 neighborhood activity node would be more for like the mom and pop convenience stores, this idea that there were 673 local farmers that were coming together at this historical crossroads and provided a service, versus a rural 674 community activity node that would be focused on where that 1,000 to 5,000 would come for, I guess congregation or 675 there would be a fire station and or a post office or a school, something, it would be an institution. So, to be clear, the 676 proposed amendment is asking to change it from a rural neighborhood activity to a rural community activity. Would 677 that be accurate? 678 679 Tom Altieri: No, all but the last part, so we're talking about expanding the existing rural neighborhood 680 activity node at Morrow Mill and NC 54 to cover the balance of the property, a portion of the property on the north 681 does have some of the neighborhood node within it. So it would be to expand that node to cover the entire property 682 and then for consistency purposes, that's where you get to the matrix and add in the diamond there to allow for that 683 zoning district within the rural neighborhood activity node. It's already allowed in the rural community activity node. 684 685 Beth Bronson: Got it, now that said, does the rural neighborhood activity node have a limit on the acreage 686 that can be designated? 687 688 Tom Altieri: Not in the comprehensive plan, no. 689 690 Beth Bronson: Okay, and I only ask this because a couple of meetings ago we had a conversation about the 691 rural community activity node reaching its limit of rezoned parcels from agricultural residential to general commercial 692 and there was a discussion about whether or not that hit a threshold for what was allowable, not to say that that can't 693 be changed or that can't be amended, but I just wanted to clarify if that would create the same type of limitation. 694 695 Tom Altieri: So, I believe the standard or the threshold that you're referring to is in the unified development 696 ordinance, I don't have that section off the top of my head, but given time I think I could find it. There was at one 697 point a threshold there that applied to how much acreage within the node could be rezoned. 698 699 Beth Bronson: And to be clear, when we were speaking about that, that was the rural community activity 700 node, not the neighborhood, so I don't know, we haven't discussed if there is an actual threshold to the rural 701 neighborhood activity node, so I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you. 702 703 Lamar Proctor: Ms. Kirk and then Statler. 704 705 Charity Kirk: I'm hoping that the applicant will present, but since we're asking questions now, why does the 706 whole parcel need to be converted to a rural activity node? Is it because an agricultural residential parcel doesn't 707 support multi-family dwellings? 708 709