PB Agenda Packet - October 1 2025

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35 1588 Beth Trahos: Pathways Elementary? 1589 1590 Whitney Watson: Yes. 1591 1592 Laura Haywood: So, in order to get across the creek,yes,a walking bridge would need to traverse it. 1593 1594 Whiteney Watson: It's not that, it's the property. 1595 1596 Laura Haywood: Yes,there's an HOA-owned property back there that we would need to get permission from the 1597 HOA, but that would also be an additional collaboration piece that we are willing to address when 1598 the time comes. 1599 1600 Whitney Watson: Okay. 1601 1602 Beth Bronson: With Shrouds Creeks Homeowners Association. 1603 1604 Laura Haywood: Yes,that's correct. There's a small neighborhood right there of I don't know, a handful, 12 to 15 1605 homes, and their HOA kind of whips around. 1606 1607 Patrick Mallett: I can offer some historical perspective to that. When some developer develops Shrouds Creek, 1608 the developer went to the Town of Hillsborough and to the schools and said, hey, I've got this 1609 open space,would you consider a greenway or a path or a connection point. And at that time,the 1610 town said we're not really interested because there's stream features there and we're concerned 1611 about hazards without a full-blown greenway and adequate bridges. The school ultimately 1612 concluded we just want one little sidewalk along the right-of-way there, so it has been discussed 1613 before. I think that that HOA would need to be approached and a legal agreement arrived at. 1 1614 would think that they would be in the same theoretical position as the homeowners here,willing to 1615 talk, but there's essentially two to three, if not four parties that would need to be involved. Just 1616 wanted to let you know that that has been discussed in the past. 1617 1618 Whitney Watson: So,the other question is,there's a little tiny narrow tail of property that is part of this proposal, and 1619 what's up with that little piece? Could that be transferred to Eno River Academy or somebody 1620 else? 1621 1622 Beth Trahos: I don't know the, the genesis of that piece, but certainly it's something that could be discussed if it 1623 makes sense for it to be a part of Eno River or something like that. It certainly could be discussed. 1624 1625 Whitney Watson: Or,yeah, or to the property owners that are adjacent to it already if they wanted to buy that. 1626 1627 Cy Stober: Mr. Chair, if I may. So unlike when we're discussing DOT regulation and the right-of-way, 1628 conditioning a zoning approval on a property to compel conversation commitment with other 1629 property owners is outside the bounds of even the commissioners. We have to focus on this 1630 property and the regulations that apply to it and anything else is outside the bounds of what we 1631 can do as a zoning regulation. 1632 1633 Lamar Proctor: Thank you. And I do think it's been clear through this discussion that any communication or 1634 agreement between other adjacent property owners or other property owners is a matter of private 1635 interests between those legal entities and the landowners. And as the applicant has pointed out, 1636 as the developer they will eventually develop and sell these lots and that neighborhood will have 1637 an HOA, and once again,we can't get involved in that. That's a private matter between the 1638 people who buy that, but that HOA as a legal entity would have discussions with Eno River 1639 Academy or with adjacent landowners, but we can't condition zoning on those things. 1640 1641 Cy Stober: That's correct. I'm very happy to see and I know Taylor worked very hard at is basically teeing up 1642 those conversations as best we can through the powers that we do have to compel the easements