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Approved 8.7.24 really enjoy their neighbors and feel like they have that community, and I completely 1502 understand why Fiddlehead wants that. I think the question is, does that fit in this 1503 particular area? Does it make sense? Everything I've heard so far about Fiddlehead 1504 makes it feel like a neighborhood island, and what I mean by that is it feels like it's not 1505 necessarily supporting the neighborhood in the sense of the rural neighborhood activity 1506 node is land designated in the comprehensive plan that is focused on road intersections 1507 within a rural agricultural residential area that is appropriate for small scale commercial 1508 uses. When I read that, I think of local support and growth of commercial uses that are 1509 supposed to be supporting the local neighborhood. This feels like it is an amazing and 1510 wonderful thing, I love the green, I love the solar, all the things about it. Does it fit that 1511 necessary designation at this point, I don't necessarily think so. So that's where I 1512 currently land with that. That is no dig on Fiddlehead or anything along those lines, land 1513 is expensive everywhere, I totally understand going above and beyond to try to find a 1514 place and make it fit. For this particular designation I struggle with that, so that is where 1515 I'm at right now. 1516 1517 Whitney Watson: So, I'm going to disagree with Chris. I think the most important issue is Item 7, the 1518 change proposed to the land use map and expanding what is possible within the rural 1519 neighborhood activity nodes. Because if it happens here, it does mean that it's now 1520 possible in all the additional 9 activities nodes throughout the county. So, this one change, 1521 while it may have benefitted a very worthwhile project, it now changes the future for the 1522 entire county, so for me that's really the crux of why we're here tonight is trying to address 1523 that. I had some conversation with some of the planning staff and it does help to have 1524 that history about why the activity nodes don't follow the parcel lines, but in this particular 1525 instance, perhaps, we could direct that the activity node go back to the parcel line, the 1526 one that's furthest away from the current AR designation, and ask the applicant to 1527 propose a project that fits within either the agricultural residential or change that zoning 1528 from AR to master plan development, because I'm really reluctant to sweep the entire 1529 history of activity nodes out the door in this one episode. I don't have any problem with the 1530 family care home, doing that text change and Perdita’s right, we're going to have to come 1531 back at some point and make that change to the table, so no big deal there. 1532 1533 Charity Kirk: I'm going to echo what Chris said. I'm in support of the vision but I think we're talking 1534 about something that is a much more core or root level here, and it's something that 1535 would be nice if it is addressed in a comprehensive plan and the comprehensive plan is 1536 being worked on right now, so doing such a change that seems fairly dramatic for this one 1537 project where it doesn't meet the current comprehensive plan vision, it doesn't seem wise 1538 if we are purely trying to use the UDO and the comprehensive plan to make our land use 1539 decisions. 1540 1541 Lamar Proctor: I think it's a beautiful vision and I love the idea of it, I think I’ll just echo the other planning 1542 board members, my concern is opening up rural activity nodes to master plan conditional 1543 districts. This was talked about a little, I was looking through the minutes where Cy 1544 Stober indicated that the intended uses for this project fell out of what would be allowed in 1545 a rural activity node which is a rural conditional district. So, clearly our entire 1546 comprehensive land use plan envisions consistent uses throughout the county to match 1547 the population densities and the existing uses and to give our population consistency and 1548 security about what's going to be developed around them and people purchase land with 1549 the idea that they know what the conforming uses are around them, they can see what 1550 areas are for future development, they know when they buy it, if they buy it next to a 1551